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black tornado
retrieve your grimoire, Prospero sunken to the seabed as if some clipper-ship by tempest tossed descendant Milanesi money men ascend against you yet again more monstrous than any beast ...
what you possess possesses you back
some of us have demons some of us have ghosts most of us possess both all of us have something but most of us have both I have a lot more ghosts than I do demons I guess but that’s not somethin...
mechanisms coping
coping with loneliness is like flexing a muscle for a while, it is just a normal thing you have to do sometimes but too long, it’s a cramp then a full charliehorse until the point you’ve been ...
faction
you can easily craft a fiction out of all facts a fan wears his lucky socks every game from the first tip the team he roots for wins the championship the...
hoaxed stories
it was one if by land and was two if by sea second-time as a farce when at first tragedy so go the bald racist exceptionalist myths that once built America now return and burn...
balance beams
balance is what’s required to walk that multifold luminous with one foot in each side of some goddamned false dichotomy without falling to either side or beginning to imagine that that imagi...
these medaling kids
you’re either a steel-drivin’ man or you’re driven to steal baby, this is America, baby that’s how they tell us to feel so either get left a mansion or go push the wheel inheritance is theft ...
temperance and distance
everyone looks like someone else in the place where you’re from at least on distant shores everyone’s a stranger from the start that’s where I went to change the world anywhere ...
the heisenberg blues
Your relationship with yourself is as fraught as a subatomic particle. You can never know at the same time both where you are and how fast you’re going. By trying to observe yourself too clos...
A.I. (After Irony)
the sincerity that can only come from driving straight through irony once letting it burn all away and then coming back to sincerity but wiser returning to honesty full-circle this is what fi...
learning to flinch
sometimes it isn’t the punch or the impact of their fist it is in your gut reaction it is your instinctive set of reflexes that it evoked that’s what really matters maybe they’re not trying t...
no one thing
when you finally accept that we’re all just mostly water you’ll be able to accept how truly changeable we all are we are none of us just one thing we freeze and we steam we sublimate, it hap...
long may you run
may you long outlive your dreams may you be survived by your legacy may a better humanity outlive us all ourselves our dreams our legacies all of it may it all go on long long long beyond us w...
turning corners
the grocery store your parents took you to as a little kid no longer exists all the money in the world could not bring you back there even for a second it irrevocably no longer exists here I...
lines in the hand
the mystics and statistics the gods and all the odds there may be magic out there but there are a lot more frauds sometimes it’s a profundity or sometimes just profanity sometimes...
blame me
I’m sorry for all the times in summer that I said I would prefer the winter I was wrong and this is all my fault blame me totally and I’ll deserve it I did this, I doomed us all to th...
the price of progress
not so very long ago when you thought distant strangers could hear your thoughts they locked you away now when not enough distant strangers hear our every single little thought it drives u...
peekaboo
when you’re just a little kid you realize object permanence that just because things leave from inside your line of sight it doesn’t mean they are gone probably playing peek-a-boo w...
in real life, Rocky would've died at the end
in real life you would find yourself rooting for the fighter to stay down instead of get up because in real life when you’re beaten that badly and you gets up too soon it doesn’t mean you ar...
typos
covered your flaws over and over these layers thick with white-out hoping to hide and be as if anew for someone else again and again now here you are a scratch ticket in full hoping so...
bottleneck
ten billion possible pasts filtering into a single now ten billion possible futures lay out before it too here is the chokepoint, the bottleneck that is the single lonely current state ...
shakedown 1972
Willie Mays once an all-time great lost trying to play in the outfield at Shea because he didn’t know two years ago was the time to go retire away it happened before I was even born ...
try losing instead
the people who returned from trouble as shiny heroes are not the ones to ask about the horrors of world they just lucked out and didn’t see the shit in full the ones who came home wo...
remington way
Ilion New York where the streets were paved with blood literally paved by blood money once every third street named Remington the gun factory at its beating heart for so very many years that ...
february
the winter up here is like getting a baby chick for Easter the first snow of November is like “OH IT’S SO TINY AND CUTE” but by February it’s this weird ugly thing that pecks at the w...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.
