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better
brother I wasn't stuck in limbo maybe limbo was just stuck in me maybe I wasn't burning in hell punished in manners ethereal maybe my business was biding my time working on better material ...
you're welcome
I talked the gods out of the last three end-times but no one gives me credit Odin was going to lay down Ragnarok so I strolled up to Asgard and I said Odin, Earth is where I keep all my st...
it's always both
hope without doubt is madness doubt without hope is death but if you've got both and if you've got breath then may hope be your sword and doubt be your shield now is the new future liste...
beat-if-ication
I am the patron saint of lost car keys and rewrites long shots and lawnmower repairs the patron saint of coffee refills and ignoring the details the patron saint of longing and loitering o...
disorderly conduct
some day in some future DSM in the not-too-distant formulation of what passes for our mental illnesses we will have a new way of being sick inside instead of a Dissociate Disorder we will ha...
metaphor
there is no one in the world who is as great a driver of cars and yet as terrible a parker and un-parker of cars as I this is a metaphor this is a metaphor for my entire life when I get o...
performance anxiety
you are conducting a performance art piece wherein you play out the role of a human being a literal part of a lifetime keep this in mind the way you wipe your ass the way you mourn your...
a long way to unitary
you are not who you were you are a parade of living and dying neurons deluding themselves through proximity into believing yourself unitary you are not one person you are a progression of p...
solace
if you won't grant us patrons at least grant us some Patron stiff drinks to soften the nights composing alone if you will not grant us fame then infamy will also do because the famous alw...
bentonville
as oligarchic corporations kill local and livable jobs with short-term discounts we bargain-shop ourselves back into serfdom fellow working class people of other ethnicities are not taking yo...
fishtail
if there's anything this winter-driving teaches you it's that you cannot let yourself overcorrect if you start to wobble and you crank the wheel or slam the brakes you'll only make it wor...
eyes like mine
tornado in the sky but never of it in your eye your peace belov-ed that you will never find as we can never be only what we are inside tornado horrid beauty on the earth destroying ever...
four a.m. and weary
the tyranny of this endless now unable to react or even process just accept and keep on clicking forward on the Technicolor cyclone on all these endless nightmares I don't want to sleep thes...
mutineer
all the times that I survived but lost my place a friend my face a dream or the rent maybe it was not a doom averted maybe it was just doom deferred maybe I should have cut to the chase may...
more good advice (an old poem reworked)
always be skeptical but never be cynical it's a razor's edge to walk but trust me the cuts on your soles will be worth it cynicism will just burn you out but always be skeptical the world ...
charlie's epitaph
fate's just confirmation bias in a pair of fancy shoes don't try the idea of an honest day's work is just a kind of Stockholm Syndrome brought on by too much Fox News don't try destiny...
captain oh my captain
we were hopelessly out-numbered only so long we could stand but I thought we were gonna go down in this ship together I thought that was the plan you'd have a better chance without me I'm...
balancing act
some wear hearts on sleeves in the hope of attention others we do so instead to remind ourselves we still have one it's a balancing act going to the abyss edge for some darker knowledge ...
somewhere
sometimes I think upon all of the wonderful places I did not go back when I thought having somewhere to be was good enough now that I'm older I know just having somewhere to be is not g...
abandon shoes
abandon shoes and feel the earth beneath you or the rock or tile or wood you are a part of the world whether you like it or not whether it likes it or not you come from it you're going b...
burn notice
set the past blazing just torch it it's dead the past is not a home the past is a corpse and should you try to live inside you will only know the company of maggots and rot so torch it ...
butterfly sauce
caterpillars don't change cleanly inside their cocoons they don't just morph they dissolve into ooze before they are reborn cut open a chrysalis if you don't mind murdering bugs if you ...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.