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run on (for a long time)
poems are songs, songs are poems, everything is everything else, we just use words as an organizing shorthand to make things move faster, never misconstrue that speed for accuracy, w...
what we leave behind
the ability to pause and consider your sadness to lie back and sink into the depths of your ennui that in and of itself is a kind of privilege many don’t have some ...
the places where it does not rain
did you ever make it out to boron, california? just a dusty little crossroads between Vegas and L.A. but there’s some two thousand people whose ancestors ended up there in the middle of two...
desperadoes under the eaves
at the corner of Sunset and Gower at the eastern edge of Hollywood in the depths of dark Los Angeles there was a place they called “Gower Gulch” where in the twenties and thirties they had t...
warning label
exclusions may apply applications may exude implications may exclude you from me me from you occlusions included conclusions deluded incisive protrusion for me and for you for new and for ...
the clone wars
yeah I fought in the Clone Wars, Luke yeah I lived in L.A. for a while yeah I burned all my bridges along with three Death Stars but I made my mistakes in style yeah I lived in New York for...
respectable
I’d rather be humane than respectable rather be involved than respectable rather do good than be respectable respectability’s overrated decorum sounds great in principle but it quickl...
the american blues
America is a bottle of acetaminophen with a big label stating as such that also says on the top of the cap “contains acetaminophen”. America is a place where you ...
you get to choose
difference is not a chance to judge and feel superior it is an opportunity to learn and become more humane don’t screw it up outrageous fortune is giving you opportunites to grow your...
underneath it all
Underneath your face, you’re just a skeleton in disguise. Underneath your face, you’re just a skull with no eyes. Underneath your face, your bones are wise. Underneath your face, you’re just a ...
open
openmindedness is not an inherent trait it’s like a muscle you have to work out or else it atrophies you have to keep going out there into new situations and new places with new groups o...
storm over Florida
there was a storm over Florida that night when he was shot when I was a kid two-thirds of a lifetime ago at this point my parents woke me up I was twelve it was the beginning of summer br...
the perfection of mistakes
You gotta be crazy enough to see the world differently but sane enough to report your findings cogently back to the normies. but it’s a balance. Just as evolution is genetic glitches acci...
two related points
remember from the beginning it’s not that moths are attracted to the sight of flames in flight it’s that they’re terrifyingly confused they just keep ramming into the light remem...
good news everyone
the world isn’t ending but we are the world isn’t ending there will be a few billion years before the Earth is swallowed up in the sun’s menopausal expansion into a red giant star and ...
anybody but trump
Seriously yes anyone but Trump. The idea that letting him win would be for the best because he’d make things worse but it would cause us all to rise up, take back our country fr...
sometimes
sometimes we get faded sometimes we end up fated sometimes we get so hungry sometimes we’re even sated sometimes we’re alive sometimes we manage to thrive and sometimes once in a blue moon ...
if you believe
if you believe an online quiz can say a lot about you then that says a lot about you if you believe a horoscope can say meaningful things about your fate that says meaningful things ...
no exact science
the terrible thing about being human is that you are never completely wrong while also you are never completely right it’s the wonderful thing about being human as well ...
palatine bridge
driving through redneck oblivion in this case a hamlet called Palatine Bridge a broken-down house flies a Confederate battle flag and an American flag with Twin Towers...
half a page of scribbled lines
is there anything more wasteful than sleep? all the things you could’ve been thinking about all the wonderful ways you could’ve goofed off or perhaps a good deal more rarely all the things...
Thirty Days
They offer a thirty-day free trial but there is no guarantee of innocence at the end. They offer a thirty-day free trial but there is no guarantee of your sentenced guilt either. ...
the cool uncle blues
rowdy roddy piper’s dead so is david bowie our childhood has dried out the hot winds are blowing but instead of hiding in nostalgia like some sulking scolded pup let’s make a new nostalgia ...
her eyes
her eyes nearly dark as the night her eyes comforting as the night the deep soothing quiet of the night peaceful at the surface sheen roiling with potential beneath I could tell yo...
a new person every day
you wake up a new person every day which sounds amazing except that also means every night when you fall asleep you die and then you wake up a new person every day which could be very exci...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.
