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by littlefallsmets

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April 27, 2016

giving thanks

If jocks thank God when they win, they should blame Satan when they lose. “That interception I threw, I blame The Devil.” “The opposing point guard sold his soul to the King of L...


April 23, 2016

mystics and statistics

eighty-three percent of all men are assholes eighty-three percent of all women are assholes eighty-three percent of all people who in one way or the other do not fit into the traditional gend...


April 23, 2016

people of the book

you can’t just kill the landlord gotta burn the deed you can’t just hoard one harvest gotta spread the seed you can’t just give one meal out gotta socialize the feed you can’t just smoke...


April 21, 2016

not quite an atheist

I’m open to an improbable solution to this problem maybe there are gods and monsters, unicorns and goblins but I’ve been made to never see Shiva, Yahweh or the magic because if I knew that...


April 20, 2016

viral strain

back in our day back in the Nineties the memes were SO much less potent if someone was passing around a little “Mr. T Ate My Balls” at a rock concert if someone brought a...


April 19, 2016

electile dysfunction

dear Viagra we are experiencing an election that feels like it has lasted six years so far should we seek help immediately we have been endlessly tumescent with voting and debating...


April 19, 2016

off-the-air

there used to be television sign-offs times after midnight or one somewheres where a station would play a schedule a national anthem or some prayers then the cha...


Three mystics of various traditions and three agnostics from varied cultural backgrounds were blindfolded and lead into a small room with an elephant in the middle then both groups were ...


April 18, 2016

self-awareness

many people try to erase the bad things in their lives by never mentioning them at all by pretending they do not exist myself I try to talk about my troubles so much it exhausts th...


April 17, 2016

now you know

nearly everyone knew he was running on fumes nearly everyone assumed she was high on other fumes from a paperbag in her room though she was shaking really from thought...


April 14, 2016

pope joan

pope joan according to the story would’ve led you all to glory had you left her alone pope joan probably didn’t exist but that isn’t a problem when faith is ...


April 13, 2016

curses foiled again

swearing kills pain numbs it frays it helps you block it out the fucking scientists said that swearing is a sign of honesty or anyway the appearance of honesty it co...


April 13, 2016

ahistorical rebuttal

giving away the unicorn face to the little kid as if to suggest that I was doing it because I was a damned great guy not a long-shot at trying to impress the girl on the dance floor with the ...


April 12, 2016

the bump

in professional wrestling they call the act of getting actually hit but exaggerating it while also trying to not actually get hurt they call that “taking a bump” a trust fall is easy...


before you can occupy Wall Street Washington or the nearest city hall you gotta sit and scream inside the borders of your mind’s own city park you gotta occupy your own dam...


April 09, 2016

the law of orders

they meet at the Rotary to all sit and spin and at Masonic Halls to all shit green bricks they will meet at the Lions to pussy about at Knights of Columbus the same way no doubt the...


to everyone else you’re the rough average of all your facets all of your traits all of the people you have to be for your job for your hobbies for your parents for your lover ...


yeah it used to be we could escape the cold in the hot embrace of rock ‘n’ roll we can still go there now but it’s no longer as warm there yeah it used to be we could pretend we were coo...


April 09, 2016

the jams

No! Don’t kick out the jams! Don’t pump them up either, they’re fragile! The veil between reality and fiction the veil between reality and madness they’re different but look as...


April 09, 2016

love and theft

Saying taxation is theft is like saying the brain steals blood from skin. Without the mechanism of functional society, your money doesn’t exist. The niceties that allow the exchange currency...


when I was a young but never tiny kid a vaporizer would’ve been a zap gun in a paperback maybe a cartoon show now it is a cigarette that looks like R2-D2’s peter and i...


April 09, 2016

history lessens

It’s important to remember how in context of the time the Second Amendment wasn’t about “freedom” it was about arming to put down slave rebellions. We’ve forgotten how ugly it always was. So...


The work isn’t what wears you out. It’s defending the work that wears you out. Then you have to recharge by doing the work more. But the work isn’t what wears you out. Good work only a few may ...


April 08, 2016

helper monkey

I don’t need a helper monkey but I’d love a co-dependence monkey who’d just sit beside me and tell me everything I do is amazing. The co-dependency monkey would send out all the bills...


April 08, 2016

retrospect

In retrospect, the most honest love letter I could ever write could ever written to a number of hers would be “You’re beautiful because you treat me like an infallible gen...


Book Description

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