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August 14, 2016

no sleep til brooklyn

the cars on the M-line churning out their rockabye two connecting trains away from the Rockaways via the A but you can’t know it until they take that soothing tune wheels can make til you...


August 14, 2016

uncle donny

eyes are always watching you but they’re kind eyes you think you’re being monitored but you’re really just being protected from afar Boo Radley just wanted Scout safe he might not speak he mig...


August 14, 2016

eaves variation

and if there’s nothing left for us after this living as agnostics and acrostics might suggest if your puzzle ends up only half-completed all that matters is that you tried and did your best ...


August 01, 2016

new comedy bit

people say that Donald Trump is always taking the low road but where I grew up “taking the low road” was a slang term for “eating pussy” and Donald Trump does not eat pussy so this...


July 31, 2016

a concise barrage

1.) Too many reformed churches, not enough deformed churches. 2.) Your English pub in Utica NY will be called “Drams Along The Mohawk”. 3.) Like Churchill’s approach to martini vermouth, I drive ...


July 31, 2016

language please

language shapes meaning while efforting to approximate we will never be exact we can never be perfect but damn it we try our best to get within a rounding error of our deepest mea...


July 24, 2016

the heart in summer

we’re all under the same sky but the position of the stars is at least a little different depending who and where we are that girl you maybe adore but haven’t seen in years under those very...


July 24, 2016

like it doesn't matter

humility will keep you sane but it holds you back from taking action confidence is the opposite twin confidence can get things done but leaves your conscience broken in ...


July 24, 2016

someday

in John Brown’s day before he moldered in his grave it was assumed he was insane for thinking slavery could end so I’m raising up a toast to madwomen and madmen ...


July 24, 2016

motion

you are a mechanism of empathy you are a holy mineshaft of emotion but you need to be alive afterward to thrive you have to reload after the explosion give yourself some credit give yoursel...


July 24, 2016

the end of the end

If the Rapture means every judgemental hateful jerk ruining everything leaves the planet? It sounds win-win for both sides. By all means, Rapture yourselves. Rapture yoursel...


July 24, 2016

magpie

magpie blackbird steal yourself some baubles make yourself a pretty nest nothing’s full original we can only do our best every idea’s a little bit borrowed don’t play it to...


July 24, 2016

Hindsight

Trust your brakes I mean, of course, check your brakes first make sure that they’re worth trusting make sure they’re in working order but if you know your brakes are good trust your brakes t...


July 24, 2016

McLaughlins

in Dolgeville New York in the next town north of the place where I grew up of the place that I call home there used to be a store called McLaughlins I don’t even remember what it sold I...


July 15, 2016

camping

You want me to go camping You want ME to go camping YOU want me to go camping You want me to go CAMPING You WANT me to go camping Camping? Look, my idea of roughing it is watching movies o...


July 14, 2016

laying down the science

you always hear about mad scientists but you never hear about sad scientists resurrecting the dead to the tune of Morrissey buying their labcoats in black at Hot Topic before a rack o...


July 14, 2016

my own advice

may you find what you seek but moreover if you don’t may you still find a way to know peace because you might not find what you seek success is at least ninety percent luck you might st...


July 14, 2016

poke mongo

poke mongo? poke mongo? I sure as hell wouldn’t poke mongo that guy ran around punching out cows in Blazing Saddles that dude was fierce you people are fine with folks muttering to them...


I have decided that our cat internally refers to me as “The Doorman” he scratches at the foot of my bed “let meowt, doorman!” “let meowt!” and like a sucker, I do reinforcing the whol...


July 14, 2016

times like these

we send our hearts out so often now they never have the time to come back before we send them out again so we wander through our days with perpetually empty chests trying to still pump bl...


July 14, 2016

some of us

some of us are true believers some of us are troubadors some will cope by meditation some by drinking to the floor some of us dream of tornadoes some of our dreams ARE tornadoes some of u...


July 07, 2016

inappropriate sounds

sometimes I wonder if each consciousness is its own reality a parallel dimension for each of us our shared experience an averaging out of the overlaps if the seemingly permanent real is ju...


June 28, 2016

the sky opening

when it’s raining there is peace when it’s raining there is simply less they can ask you to do when it’s raining you just hunker down inside for a while secure in the knowledge that expect...


June 28, 2016

liquidity

we are perpetual emotion machines churning out love drama and fear for as long as we’re breathing for as long as we’re here we’re not born with souls but we’re ...


June 28, 2016

goddamn you vampires

you can’t stop violence with even more violence any more than you can stop ignorance with even more ignorance or darkness with more dark or water with more water or blood with more blood ...


Book Description

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