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science fiction triple feature
the beauty of science fiction is you’re writing about things that probably haven’t happened that maybe can never happened but at least haven’t happened yet so your metaphors can t...
absence
lightbulb in the empty house next door flickers like someone is saying hello but “like” does not always make it so my heart says yes but my head says no whether it is fa...
profanity
Profanity just means dealing with the profane dealing with the possible divine dealing with holy. Don’t let ‘em tell you you don’t have the right to wrestle with profanity to st...
the calling
If you do it to get rich, you’ll go broke. If you do it to get famous, you’ll go mad in the process. If you do it because it’s all that you’re good at, you will have a fighting chance. ...
upside
The upside to scary things is you get the opportunity to overcome ‘em. Your differences aren’t curses, they’re gifts to make you realize everyone’s different, to fill you with compassion and ...
science-fiction double feature
The one major difference between science-fiction and religion is if the person who wrote it all down believed that it actually happened if they believe that the story they’re ...
overshare
When I was a child, I was told I “over-shared” my emotions. It was unhealthy to spill all my secrets for anyone who would listen my hopes my fears my fondest missions “Just because you think ...
worry
worry is just regret while it’s still in the chrysalis waiting for its terrible wings to finally burst through shred the cocoon and emerge fully empowered to ruin you worry is tensing up in a ...
rock and roll
In case you’ve been living under a rock technology has advanced we can now live under a roof. In case you’ve been living under a rock if a rolling stone gathers no moss there’s no way someone...
tables
Occasional tables. Periodic tables. Erratic tables. Elusive tables. Unreliable tables. Absent tables. Deadbeat tables. Tables. Water tables, earth tables, sky tables, fire tables, ...
want
Dress for the job you want. Job for the dress you want. Want for the dress you job. Want for the want you want. Want. Want. Want. Continue to want. Your want will set you free. Your wa...
godzilla '98
the first Godzilla was pretty simple, man he was the atom bomb and he destroyed Japan the second Godzilla, pretty much the same except now Angurius could share in the blame the third G...
words on words
Everything you’ve ever read some weirdo just like you just wrote those words down once it isn’t something magical just because it exists on paper it isn’t necessarily true just bec...
other from another other
Find your other-ness and hang onto it for dear life. That sense of feeling somehow abnormal, it can keep you humane. That sense of feeling halfway there to madness, it can keep you sane. Liste...
an illusion
Time is an illusion but the entropy that creates the illusion is not. Sadly, understanding time’s falsity does not prevent entropy. The illusory nature of time does not ameliorate its side effec...
I Dream Of Televised Supernatural Wives
Major Tony Nelson, man I can sort of understand your disinterest in Jeannie’s reality-bending magic ability you are already incredibly cool you’re a motherfucking astronaut but an...
handle with care
Most of my short-form writing starts off clashing thrashing crashing and smashing cast like a madman’s frothing manifesto but closes like a hopeful if repetitious love letter like a hopef...
linger
Your dreams will eventually be forgotten. Your nightmares will eventually be forgotten. You get to choose, though, which will linger. The gods will not know you by your final draft, rather...
still pictures
Thin, her face lost its substance, thin, her breasts lost their glory, thin, her form lost its stories. We are not our bodies I am not just my body we are not just our bodies but ou...
fwm
Little Falls is a pack of feral dogs, beautiful and free, but something still lost when the worldliness was left behind. Even going back to Eden, something is lost. Utica is a Bosnia...
four definitions
Sanity, a thousand piece jigsaw assembled at leisure. Madness, pieces dumped on your head for somebody’s pleasure. Sadness, a side effect of using others as measure. Hope, for tomorrow not for...
toothpaste and war
Faith is grief hoarded and weaponized, laid out for terrible numbing purpose. Love is knowing pain and wanting no one else to ever feel that pain again. Money is fear condensed into mat...
godforbid
Sometimes you see a pic of an ex with her new dude and you’re genuinely happy because he’s fat so that isn’t why she dumped you. You’re just happy to know that she dumped you because you’re w...
corinthians
some old damned book once said “when I was a child, I spoke as a child I understood as a child, I thought as a child when I became a man, I put away childish things” but when I was really ...
time spent in los angeles
I made my way into the mouth of the beast not into the belly, no, not in the least chewed me up spit me out but still I survived most don’t make it back breathing most don’t even give it a ...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.
