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mechanisms coping
Never do something five times when you could do it once when it’s piled up enough to be worth doing. Work for work’s sake proves nothing. All great ideas came from the...
the ghost shirt society
We need gods of instructive chaos. We need goddesses of didactic mischief. An army of Brother and Sister Coyotes to push back at all of these Lokii. Jests that teach...
sugar sugar haiku
diabetic now gave me another label to hate myself for
school bus haiku
so much potential all of these bright little kids this town will ruin them
good enough
I want to have an adventure I am very very lucky really I have gotten to have a few adventures they all blew up in my face eventually still I’ve gotten to have adventures and a whole lot of...
the super bowl shuffle
The billionaires named their sports teams after the races and species they wiped out seemingly without a trace of irony. Lions and tigers and bears oh my God they’ll all be extinct soo...
like you're tearing your own face off
Commit to the bit. Live inside it. Hope it works. Getting booed outta town is a damn sight better than getting tepid applause. Do as much as you can without breaki...
the good stuff
Getting up and performing for a crowd of strangers is like sex. It’s gonna be fast and terrible the first few times you try it. Stick with it. Get to the good stuff. ...
wake up
The dark underbelly of positive thinking is its logical extension is that it blames victims. Can’t smile your way out of getting hit by a bus. Can’t compliment yourself until y...
the kaleozoic era
it was easy to tell which dinosaurs were herbivores they’d never shut up about it just never shut up “Brontosaurus Meat Is Murder” pinned to their jackets they’d show you ca...
a were
we were all bitten by the life beast once we will be were-alive for a little while except for when we’re sleeping as that’s when we are what we used to be before the bastar...
the bathwater
on Catalina once did we a stately pleasure-dome decree or a modest hotel room anyway though the sills a stiff ocean breeze Julia Child in black-and-white on the teevee ...
at sea
my ship coming in and I passed each other in the night not unlike two big things passing on the right I guess still they tell me there’s so many ships in the sea or was that fish? was ...
embedded
America went to bed business-casual America woke up a business-casualty that’s the business of business you see that’s the sad business causality. We got embedded to witness ...
power
If your superpower is failure, all you gotta do is jump and fail to land suddenly you’re flying. If your superpower is failure, all you gotta do is try to...
relocation
You get on the bus to L.A. because you think you’re already perfect to be a star when you get off she disabuses you of those notions. You go to New York City because you...
after Sandy Hook
after Sandy Hook in any sane or loving nation we would’ve just started turning in our guns we would’ve just started destroying them all we would’ve had a smelting pit built in every maj...
grandma moses never had to be on TMZ
The later we succeed, the later we collapse into success-sheltered self-parody, this is our artistic covenant. We are better off without becoming Robert DeNiro taking ever...
progress
when you bury something deep down inside realize that you are planting a seed consider the future yield and consider your future needs before you do that even when y...
cripes
The only way to not be darned to Heck is to accept the love of Cripes into your life. You’re gonna be in deep poop without Cripes, you will be straight-up freaked in the butt. Cripes ...
the track palin blues
when did it become patriotic to hate the best things about America? our public schools, our infrastructure our attempts to be a real melting pot? why do these open-carry open-thr...
map to the stars' homes
They build Potemkin Villages of success to sell degrees and get cheap assistants for a little while until they’re disposed of Panorama City wants to pretend that its Van Nuys and Van Nuys...
renewal
We’re losing these geniuses so fast, someone’s gonna have to step up, there’s not even a choice now, but now it just has to be us. I know, right? It sucks. I sure as hell don’t feel ready,...
letter to myself 2
I’ve gotten better at turning frustration into grief instead of anger and that’s better for others and yet I don’t know if that’s actually better for me. Doubt kee...
the bird is the word
Creative success is a desert bird and I’m a charred flattened coyote but I will still strap that goddamned giant bottle-rocket to my back again. Making money off words ...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.
