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February 08, 2017

letting it happen

You are a work-in-progress. You are a reaction to your stimuli. You’re not betraying yourself by changing. You’re not betraying anyone. You are becoming yourself. You have...


February 07, 2017

online everyone is a dog

smelling things is the internet for dogs sticking their heads out of car windows is a high-speed connection it’s a DSL login at least a dog sniffer linkup cable internet is easy for them t...


February 07, 2017

now

You can’t rely on begging heroes or leaders to change things anymore. They may be compromised. They may be exhausted. They might have death threats hanging over their grand kids. They...


January 30, 2017

perfection

Perfection’s only perfect for a second. Perfection will always stagnate. Perfection in the mirror expires before it even sees its own reflection. Perfect’s ...


talk about the need puttin’ down the seed hopin’ for a future where we all can feed goin’ to the field workin’ for the yield the rich gonna try to steal so our lips are sealed some of us are...


January 29, 2017

The Logan Act

The Logan Act enacted January 30th, 1799 Statue 613 Title 18 of the United States Code Section 953 Any citizen of the United States for example failed real-estate developer Donald J. Trump ...


poor Arnold Potter we don’t share alma mater in some ways we share even more even though birth of mine nineteen-seventy-nine and his was in eighteen-oh-four I in hospital halls of the L...


January 16, 2017

ouroboros

the outer boroughs are an ouroboros eating their own tail a near-endless cycle of which is the most hip over-priced neighborhood outside of Manhattan eating each other and themselves up ...


January 15, 2017

catchphrase in the rye

she made the mistake once of saying it under her breath of calling the man and his dog “junkies” but the man known for his drug-filled rages the man with the giant loyal consta...


January 12, 2017

hang in there

this life is a rock tumbler for our consciousness for our souls if you’re into that word I’m not into that word, myself it reduces all the random mystery down to some hippy-dippy magic reduc...


January 12, 2017

pills pills pills

when I started talking cholesterol medicine I noted the generic name “Atorvastatin” realizing that it sounded like the name of an NPR on-air personality “Atorva Statin, for Marketplace” you...


January 12, 2017

mister mister

Mr. A had an utter disdain for fools Mr. B looked upon fools with detached bemusement Mr. C tried his best to ignore the existence of fools altogether Mr. D bade fools to rise out of fo...


January 06, 2017

exit 31

the pretty brunette who works at the toll booth sometimes she thinks that I’m flirting with her she thinks so, I know it there’s an amused but dismissive laugh when I say “thank you, ha...


January 02, 2017

a part tied

there’s a part of us always in mourning there’s a part of us always rejoicing the more peace you can make with both the better chance that you have of focusing on the good things of releas...


January 02, 2017

offering

solitude itself a kind of offering to the angry gods of loneliness in hopes when you leave your hermitage you won’t have to be alone anymore or at least for a little while we soak up our ...


January 02, 2017

cudgel

that goddamn cudgel “faith” the makers of war machines and wars forever force faith into our hands then push our arms over our heads bash our skulls in while all the while ...


January 01, 2017

rump state

after the fall of Rome at the end of Pax Romana a succession of increasing insignificant rump states carried on in vain parading around the empire’s name as if the moniker itself w...


December 31, 2016

wayfarers clothes

the crossroads is where the shoppers stop to gossip the crossroads is where the bluesmen sell their souls the crossroads is where the weary lose their bearings the crossroads is where the whor...


December 30, 2016

sonder

this oh-so slender slander no time for palliatives no time to pander no time for parables no time to meander the word for the feeling upon seeing strangers knowing their internal meaning i...


December 30, 2016

all this wandering

I’ve lived in the land of fire and sand I’ve lived in the lands of ice and snow I’ve learned there’s no salting the sun there’s no shoveling flames doncha know you can’t hunker down...


I have seen things like you never have seen like attack ships on fire near Orion-Thirteen I’ve seen c-beams glit off the Tannhauser Gate I’ve watched them glow early I’ve watched th...


December 29, 2016

wonders never cease

even in these times of hate and fear when the bridges of freedom seem to crumble as the walls of suffering rise at the edges there will be… moments there will still be moments there wi...


December 23, 2016

saturnalia

things I can’t do make a Hammond B3 organ sing out like the angels in the kind of church that doesn’t need a god in the heavens to make its music holy make a bat crack on a fastball w...


December 18, 2016

evolver

The perfect replication of digital files of our rented cultural capital waiting on the cloud to be taken back from us via obsolescence greed or misadventure means a loss of the m...


December 15, 2016

the truth of you and I

in the timeline where it all worked out we were lovers on the world where it didn’t all go wrong we drank miracles together as if just water in some velvet dimension that was not so...


Book Description

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