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karma tornado warning
cigarettes for the dying and loose change for the dead ice cream for the living and used cars to drive your head cedar chests and protests to aid the yet-to-come we’ve got poems f...
the strand
your mourning heart still seeks you out as you melt away in the city of the night in the slums of your own lost reckoning in smashed-up glass-strewn alleyways of meaning sleeping...
privileged understudy
there’s worse things I have been called than a noble cause’s back-up plan better than sleeping in instead to make a stand even and especially if I am found to be unnecessary and to the bares...
food folks and
your life is like a twenty-piece mcnuggets it’s super cheap and kind of gross and it’s incredibly delicious in a crass sort of way you sure as hell don’t want to think about the process in w...
the class of ninety-seven
One good thing about social networking we all can agree on: it has negated the entire concept of class reunions. We don’t have to pretend that they’re fun just so we can learn what everyone i...
beautiful songs of love
Being single in your thirties is like losing a game of musical chairs several random times a day and having to deal with it. Every once in a while you can feel the music stop, look all t...
turn turn turn
Some times call for bards singing songs of love others call for skalds roaring praise for those who beat back monsters. Some times call for doctors to bind wounds other call for doctors...
THIS MACHINE
Ted Williams killed fascists. Hank Greenberg killed fascists. Jackie Robinson killed fascists. My grandpa killed fascists. Dwight Eisenhower killed fascists. John Kennedy killed fascists...
upon a renamed city park
folding chair at a summer fair grade school and town library on the green that’s in-between life will pass me right on by fifteen maybe twenty times generations before and hence faces u...
mr. in-between
why are you all so beautiful why are you all be too taken or too far away too young for me or too deep in responsibility why are you all be beautiful while I’m still just me today
blood moon
the blood moon lay so close to the horizon I could pluck it from the sky between my two fingers if I had someone to gift it to but I do not so you will keep your tides tonight so you will k...
we do not forget
if it happened then it happened no matter what you say you may force us to forget at the barrel of a well-oiled gun you may legislate ignorance and see the truth-keepers shunned you may salt the ...
as above as below
the feeling that you’re at a crossroads is right but hardly psychic you’re always at some crossroads or another, always making a choice you just don’t always have the eyes to see it or the time...
lost and found
sad Peter Pan, grass green and tan never gonna die, never gonna be a man what kind of a path what kind of plan could there be in making your stand between all of these shifting sa...
staggering risk
embrace risk life will kill you either way but you get to choose whether to die ignorant and fearful or fulfilled and joyful risk embrace living this life isn’t about not having fear in t...
the state of human progress
“Leif Eriksson!” the older Vikings laughed around the fire “Trying to colonize Vinland like an idiot!” “goddamn millennials.” “Tiberius sending Germanicus to fight Parthia.” the Romans s...
cynical thinking
after years of studies in canine linguistics I have determined that the standard bark translates to “I am a dog!” but they can mean “I am a dog!” like fifteen different ways to a dog the...
the exchange rate
we pay top dollar for gold get cash for your gift cards we buy we sell and we trade federally licensed firearms dealer trade in well-meant old gifts and buy a gun, turn their love into guns ...
adirondack animal land
maybe the Gloversville petting zoo would be doing better if the main talking point of their billboards wasn’t “CASH ONLY, NO CREDIT OR DEBIT” it’s a bad look DON’T EXPECT WELL FED GIRAFFES, th...
con men
it’s not that people women or men or people outside of those categories or people who live in-between those categories it’s not that we’re attracted to assholes per se it’s that people tend...
invisible touch
to lose touch with reality you must have first once had it if you were always afloat awash in a sea of privilege luxury yes-men comfort wealth if you never needed to know how much milk or b...
texas-style
Whenever I hear the phrase “Texas-Style Barbeque” I admit to imagining the meat being electrocuted in the tiniest most adorable individual chairs. I imagine the hot dog waiting for a call from ...
the hot date
words on a page like love letters are wonders to cherish and save but those words in performance? ah heavens that’s the hot date beside you next morning early after meeting up with yo...
the news of the day
if there is any good news anymore if we are to look for silver linings in the cracks between the madness and the hate the corruption and the lies the persecution and hypocrisy here’s the go...
New Text Document
all us old guys on our laptops all you young kids on your phones all together in this cafe or some other writing into the Twitter box bitching about how much we feel alone look up look up ...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.
