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primary burner
what’s gonna pull you back from the glow what’s gonna disconnect you from the bliss what’s gonna shortcut the reward you think you know what’s gonna bring you back to this back from the teet...
my lack of faith sustains me
in terrifying times like these I almost can’t express how much my lack of faith sustains me how if there were a god behind all of this hate and ugliness how if there were a pla...
made up dreams
more platitudes than attitude more gravity than grave falsifications can calcify what rewrites cannot save the purity of insecurity can make each of us a knave if you’re the ...
dueling fates
the difference between being marked and being marred is within us and not in the stars we get to choose just what we are not just what has been done to us
a haiku burst
THE SIDEWAYS EIGHT one circle larger unbalance infinity one circle smaller TIPPY-TIPPY-TIPPY Monica makes a ritual of the mocha rising to her lips JUNG AT HEART me, apart from...
look down at your hands haiku
where is the theory of lucid living, instead? I’d like to try that
survivor
never going to find happiness being respectable what seems upstanding is often deeply detestable certainly not going to change the world that way the only way you can consisten...
where the heart was
when the line of the night is “I failed you as a parent by telling you that you were special when you were a little kid, it made you think you never had to work” and the most positive thi...
white noise nocturne
deep hearts and empty skies we middle aged are still in need of lullabies sometimes the stars are disappearing to city lights and clouds seems nothing is ...
kummerspeck, german for grief lard (nightmare logic 2)
crushed in corinthian crash diets bashed into an ignominious equilibrium mathed into amethyst balanced or at least that’s the gist criticized into some crippled-up te...
and good for her, right on haiku
Catherine The Great was always on her guard for having guards on her
sleep becomes less and less appealing (nightmare logic 1)
deep from the heart of your drum-machine soul beats the distant allusion to old rock n roll needing a lift from cloistered mystics skeleton shamans constructed from ...
the calling
someone has got to fart around observe and report back while you work your asses off don’t make artists have day jobs we perform a needed service while you toil to keep the globe s...
poster haiku
we are all missing missing someone or something or just being missed
the palm reader on sycamore haiku
she said I’d succeed but not for a long long time when is a long time?
you were wrong haiku
you’re wrong about scars they’re not where you got hurt, they’re the places you healed
the liquid zoo
I’m sick of all the mystics and statistics sometimes their predictions manage to agree the rare times when that happens I am shaken I have been known to fall dow...
autobiographic haiku
one of those fish who shrinks or grows to the size of the pond where he lives
the sixty-sixth parallel
the roar of borealis lions streak the sky burning up in mating dances blazing for some reason why you can steer your ship by the stars you c...
understated overture
you say that you can’t tell but does that mean that you can’t see or does that mean that you can’t say some words have double-meanings hard to really read the tells these days ...
the adventures of normal man
look, up in the sky he’s up all the night there’s no reason why no bird and no plane stuck on the ground going insane it’s normal man he’...
the Thirty Mile Zone
tom petty once said “it’s a long day living in Reseda with a freeway running through the yard” soul coughing once said “we are all in some way or another going to Reseda someday to die” for a co...
the land of enchantment
all the used bookstores in Phoenix there’s no way to rise above the dross the hidden gold in El Dorado don’t mean shit if it’s lost all these poplar-tree-lined...
the memory of us
love is mainlining the idea of you spiking your words into my blood taking your name into my veins injecting myself into your life cut it with sugar cut like a knife love is ...
super tuesday
Ginsberg said “I am America and I’m talking to myself” that weird superstitious butterfly-stomach-effect infectious feeling as if maybe the country’s tanking because you don’t have...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.
