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scar wars
healing doesn’t invalidate your trauma your healing validates the fact that you somehow survived don’t feel guilty that you made it to now you made it to now that’s goddamned amazing invalidat...
the end of your broadcast day
in our youth, it was all analog hissing clouds of snowy flight random-generation from the very background static of the universe whispering sweet nothings by night distant lullabyes of gray a...
the gardener's lot
from the gardener’s perspective she trims and she prunes the roses to spread and preserve their beauty holding them back so that what remains can shine to the blossoms however the gardener ...
better than nothing
the fear that she’d see your love as a dread millstone about her neck you know, yourself as a heavy load dragging her down from dreams far less possible but far more exciting still than a...
put it all on red
America as a low-rent casino hazy and crowded and loud no clocks to tell what time it is distractions just everywhere and at every turn a promise how you will be the one luck...
love and luck
what’s easy is probably fake or it’s momentary at best and for better or for worse luck gets you there but after that you gotta figure out how to stay and every day older is a day less worth...
zero sum
These are the times that make monsters of men and saints of a handful of sinners. These are the times, again and again we all lose if we try to be “winners”. These are the times of frien...
one of the few choices you get
Fear makes you stupid. If I could chisel any one phrase into immortal stone as humanity’s final epitaph that’s what I would engrave. Fear makes you stupid. Fear makes you stup...
the future
Some cast i-Ching, some consult cards, some watch stars. I guess I dabble in frequomancy. I hit scan on the radio dial and listen for songs from from ghosts speaki...
with autumn closing in
on late summer nights like these still blazing hot in the sunshine cooler but still humid in the evenings where the loneliness of my singledom really kicks in as fucking melancholy th...
passing
the irony of the E-Z Pass program supposedly making all of these highway miles less of a hassle a line of three tractor-trailers in their dedicated convenience lane with automation delay only ...
breakdown lanes
on a long enough timeline with infinite cars eventually every roadside would be checkered to the brim with new flowers and old crosses with grievances tragedies emotional scars endless memoria...
more than a few
no… in fact… have regrets go and have tons of them ome without regrets is living like an entirely un-self-examined life possibly glacially boring or even worse yet they a...
the bear went over the mountain
it’s difficult enough to be passed over for someone or something when it is actually in some concrete way better than you stronger faster smarter richer younger older bigger smaller whate...
storytime
we are all of us just complicated bundles of interiorized narrative both foisted upon us and alternately self-invented we are all of us just stories briefly bound to t...
small wonders
Don’t let your world get small. Don’t hole yourself up inside an idea or an identity. Don’t hole yourself up between four literal walls. Nothing will drive you crazier than if you letting you...
the moral event horizon
don’t think of yourself as a “good person” think of yourself as a person trying to be good if you believe you’re good you’ll probably get lazy possibly lose perspective or even worse yet be...
on grounds of insanity (part 1)
Sentences that make total sense as a barista but sound dirty anywhere else: “My apologies, I need to grind in front of your face for a minute or two.” Sentences that make total sense as a b...
rolling for initiative
my mother was a healer who should’ve been a leader my father was a blacksmith who should’ve been a bard had an ex who went to Sage but then she turned the page I’m just a jack-off of all tr...
schmends
there are friends and then there are schmends people who you only know from the social media you may know this person friend-of-friend lists but you have never actually met in person that y...
"when are you gonna re-open"
instead of asking other people to build an arts scene for you build it and do all the maintenance so you can enjoy the fruits of labour get out there and stick your neck out go out there an...
a rose by any other
if you can memorize the new players on your sports teams people you’ll never meet, every year, you totally have the brainpower to remember not to deadname the people you actually know ...
the money shot
there’s less money in telling people “don’t listen to anyone as your guru not even me, you gotta find your own path inside of you, by your own math” than “I know everything and if you j...
coast to coast
In Hollywood, they die young and pretty. They die old and ugly in New York City. All the rest, both in-betweens and more’s the pity. All us rest are in-between and more’s the pity. New York ...
white light
you are a white light and this life is a prism no, it isn’t a prison this life is a prism a prism temporarily exposing the spectra of all the many things you can be, could be all of the thi...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.
