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by littlefallsmets

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February 24, 2014

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 ...


February 24, 2014

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...


February 24, 2014

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...


February 24, 2014

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...


February 19, 2014

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...


February 19, 2014

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...


February 19, 2014

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...


February 19, 2014

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...


February 19, 2014

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...


February 18, 2014

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...


February 14, 2014

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...


February 13, 2014

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...


February 12, 2014

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...


February 11, 2014

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...


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 ...


February 11, 2014

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...


February 11, 2014

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...


February 06, 2014

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 ...


February 05, 2014

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...


February 04, 2014

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...


January 28, 2014

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 ...


January 28, 2014

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.