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the democratic response
Look, I am a child of the internet age. Look, my browser has four tabs each a different page. Look, I can walk and chew gum at the same time. Look, I can easily multitask and even make ...
continental drift
Maybe I am driftwood and I’m trying to take the shape of me. Maybe I do drift good but I’m trying to find a place to be. Maybe I drift because I should but I’m wasting away here ...
vasquez canyon as america
the greenest that I ever saw these hills in the desert high the six or so years that I lived here the half-dozen I’ve been visiting my brother thick grass along the Vasquez Ro...
Steuben's Charge
Friedrich von Steuben. Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin von Steuben, that’s a foreign name, isn’t it. That’s a scary immigrant refugee kind of n...
blinking lights (for me)
check engine soon check engine soon there is maintenance required should’ve done it this afternoon the parking brake is out now this laptop’s fan is too the motor on my CPAP’s past its expec...
someday
someday I’ll be dead but I will never grow old I guess I’ll just stay like this then one day wake up cold I might live to thirty-eight I might live to ninety-eight instead but I ...
abandoned winnebago in passing
leave an opened-up map on the dashboard of your car let the neighbors think you know where you’re going let the local cops think that you know where you are even thoug...
Cahuenga Passing
studio city welcomes you as the rich scent of laurel bleeds into the distinctive musk of weed studio city welcomes me no trains through the desert dust a million cars and maybe one bu...
souls to squeeze
psychopomp and circumstance praying for rain at the harvest dance we’re liminal being oft seen askance squeeze the shaman if you get the chance straddling boundaries does get lonely two-spiri...
closer
close enough to taste it too far away to face it too long ago to place it yes I managed to waste it got this paper to trace it and I try to embrace it so few even get to graze it ...
it smells like Victory Blvd
peach ring bag spanish newsmag Christmas lights two months late dentist’s ad basketball flag ivy on a rusty gate the rush of cars on surface streets like ocean waves to some peopl...
SFO 6:45AM
mere proximity to some retro-styled bar makes me wanna dig up Frank Sinatra’s gin-soaked fucking corpse and beat it into a fine marinara sauce ain’t nothing “cool” about that...
SFO 4:59AM
at five AM the goddamn jackals finally open up their doors and let us Spend money on Things again if only to break up the crushing delirious mortal fucking tedium of an airport o...
loathing
the truth of it is there is no Freak Kingdom not anymore anyway of course, was there ever one? if there was, it was not around for me to see before my birth in time and in space as wel...
self-aggrandizement and self-pity at once
Getting crucified up on a hill when you’re still young and pretty in the big dirty city I’m sure that hurts like hell for a couple of days but then bam, you’re now magic ...
my dirty life and times
first you realize all the geniuses are insecure then you realize everyone everywhere is insecure finally you realize everyone everywhere is insecure ...
o'hare
The miracle is not that we can now cross a continent in a manner of hours via the marvels of modern airtravel, though that should be the miracle. The miracle is that we have mana...
god wants your credit card number
Religion is the ransomware of the human operating system fully ready to fix at great cost to you the myriad problems that it itself caused holding you hostage...
capstone
cap’s stuck to the back end of this scribbling pen if I try to close it if I try to separate them out the whole thing falls apart I suppose I should just leave it out now leave it to risk of...
chicago, in transit
it’s easy to fall in love at the airport on a layover between places in limbo literally the in-between place between death and life if you’re a generic mystic between heaven and hell if...
we make great pets
pet ownership is just a conversation where if there is any kind of clear confirmation it turns out that you’re crazy then again so is religion and th...
gratitude adjustment
thirty-something years old although running on a sixth-sense of feeling on some fourth or fifth lifetime on the seventh or eighth timeline fourteenth fifteenth chance to try that’s because I...
this life electric
we were born with minds and bodies prepared for jungles and for caves not information highways and mass graves at best adapted to be hunter-gatherers shaman and women campfire blatherers it ...
the nightly news
The bad news is that you were not made for any particular fate destiny or purpose. The good news is that the world is big enough where you can find a purpose that fits you. ...
reasons
sharing words, sharing time sharing song, maybe making a dime these are the reasons I’m still alive in hospital bed that I didn’t die or wreck out on the four-oh-five hit by...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.
