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by littlefallsmets

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October 09, 2018

the big if

if there is a God and if I get a face-to-face with Her or Him though I’d have harsh words for such a Thing dress down God for the horrors of this world this life, the cruelties that Go...


October 09, 2018

doubt as the last defense

living with the deadly serious consequences of a deeply unserious time sociopaths believe everyone is a sociopath and that empathy is just something people pretend at to get things more easily,...


October 04, 2018

flinching won't help

black rags worn in mourning red flags flown in warning that forgotten arm laid you flat-out in the ring and stole away your love or the phantom ripcord with the broken stri...


October 02, 2018

palliative care

a nation addicted to bad-faith outrage opiates subscribed by the A.M. talk-radio spin doctors now simply strung-out straight on the hard stuff black-tar Trumpism injected straight into ...


October 02, 2018

without

Without social media, how would we know if our old crushes are still attractive? How would our most favorite celebrities tell us what to be mad about this week? How would we get a minute-by-mi...


October 02, 2018

every day

every day steal a single brick from out a needless wall every day put a brick into a bridge that needs building every day you’ve got a good shot at changing the world every day it’ll se...


September 21, 2018

why they shine

the stars don’t shine for you no, they shine because of you they burn away out there in the cold night with or without you the light’s there either way but only meeting up with you...


September 17, 2018

painting you a picture

I realized after pouring over years of math that the opposite of Donald Trump is Bob Ross he served honorably in the military he had lots of hair he was calming and beloved he was actually g...


maybe but probably not you will witness no magic because that’s what you are an anti-magic avatar disspelling the fog of a blinded demiurge believing itself a god, itself the God weaving ...


September 16, 2018

falling from above

you did the cool drugs ironically so you could go die off iconically but they could not even kill you to your depths of disappointment turns out that all your ...


September 12, 2018

hollywood and highland

down at the crossroads you’d sell it for song but it’s all in the details and you’ve waited too long your sole salvation’s a total lack of self-control but give yourself a hand you’ve du...


September 09, 2018

seasons

I feel as though without my father I’ll never know the springtime and I’ll never know the autumn again wherever I happen to be the seasons will forever only hard-flip from freezing to burni...


September 09, 2018

just kind

every moment there is joy and horror and beauty and tedium and love and sleep and eating and confusion and want and pain and ecstasy happening all over the world in the various nodes of h...


September 09, 2018

sonshine

the sun will shine upon us, brother the sun will shine on us, my friend the sun will shine on us someday again though I won’t lie and say that I know how though I won’t lie and say that I k...


September 09, 2018

you may

you may well be correct in your suspicions that you are a damaged secret genius and if the right person came along to fix your broken pieces, you could be a world-beater and the very best ...


September 09, 2018

life

I dropped the roll of toilet paper and to retrieve it from my sitting position I had to delicately balance pulling it toward me without making it just unspool further and further and further ...


September 06, 2018

once

an outdoor hot tub in a cheap motel in Sedona once looking up at the Red Rocks with a lover once looking up at desert stars with an ex once I was there once might as well have been an...


for now we see, as through the glass broken as through a screen of broken bleeding LCDs for now we see, as through the screen dimly or as if through a mirror half-shattered three-point-five ...


August 13, 2018

see and be seen

I people-watched inside the mall I broke for a brief burrito bowl I wandered for two hours leisurely remarking on what shops had changed I stuck a fiver in a mass...


there are many levels to the Scale of Rhyming Consequences you may not be technically cruising for a bruising but you may well be asking for a taking to a taxing or demandi...


August 02, 2018

clean sweep

whenever I’m cleaning in any kind of meaningful way more than just doing dishes clothes or straightening up the dog and the cat always look up at me with mock surprise the dog and t...


August 02, 2018

oysters rock-a-fella

the good news is yes, the world is your oyster the bad news is an oyster is a little bit of snot trapped in an angry rock people pretend is delicious just to gross you the hell out ...


June 27, 2018

what you own

breaking what you own yourself can absolutely be punk rock only if the things you break were things from cheap or free and half-broken to begin with if they are in working order even that is...


Love is not always a straight line. Sometimes it is, sometimes it’s love at first sight, you walk into high school, you see the person in the locker next to yours and bam, fifty years later, you ...


June 20, 2018

my old american home

there’s lead in the water madmen in the halls of power beggars in the streets outside those richmen’s fancy balls wars waged for their own sake with assurances the news is fake the roads...


Book Description

these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.