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FAKE FACTS
FAKE FACT: No one wore underwear on the set of COMMANDO. FAKE FACT: early woks contained high levels of mercury, driving chefs slowly mad and coining the phrase “stir crazy”. FAKE ...
letter to myself
Story is the negotiator between truth and madness and dreams are just full-life reviews transposed into metaphoric load, the keys to turning it around in unbreakable incomprehensible code, ...
and the oscar goes to
I met Oscar Wilde once at a cafe in Brooklyn he’d time-traveled there to see what the future was like nobody blinked at his attire everyone’s trying to dress like they’re from some other ti...
tell us
tell us about New York before Walt Disney took all the good peep shows made them shut their doors tell us about way back when we still protested wars tell us about Haight-A...
must be somebody's maybe
how many pop songs would have totally different meanings if you transposed “maybe” and “baby” in every single hit? the line between tame romance and disturbing ambiguity is actually that r...
with grace
Believe in anything you can’t prove too much and pretty soon you’re a hammer and everything that disagrees is a nail. Don’t believe too much. Sympathy is easy but it doesn’t last lon...
life between war-times
if you wait at the ever-ready for a crisis with every single breath I guess you’ll get one eventually you’ll also have ruined your life while you girded up against dea...
winterize
they salted the roads to hell and back yesterday to collect New Years holiday double-time pay if you roll a pretzel on the New York Thruway you could bring it up ful...
paradox
Most professional training begins with an entrance exam but for an OB-Gyn, it ends with one. Yet the path to being a toll booth operator begins with an exit interview. The E...
the x-factor
the difference between the exceptional and the plain old exceptions is subtle and will be at best born out over time if at all so take these socially-constructed false dichotomies...
make America great for once
The nine scariest words in the English language are “I’m from a corporation and I’m here to help” to use the language of the enemy. Let’s shrink the power of corporate America so sma...
panic attack progression
I will not be ruled by fear. When I am I’m one-tenth of myself. I’ll be ruled by joy even if there are those who’d get more joy of their own from my fear. And I deserve better t...
the tall girl
introduce me to the tall girls give my number to the tall girls make me sound awesome to the tall girls I’m too cowardly to do it myself I’ve never dated the tall girls sometimes I’m too ...
ode to an imaginary facebook profile
Perrin or Baden or Umlat or Tetiham or whatever the hell your name is I’m sorry if you actually were real I know you weren’t actually real but I am a recovering Catholic you see I ha...
skellig michael, ireland
on a little island driven there by shame and failure ten million burning suns from nowhere beautiful but empty ruins whose purpose no one can remember desolate and lonely so blue and so ...
wichita
I’ve never been to Wichita but I take it on faith that there is a Wichita why would anyone ever make up a Wichita? they only happen by accidental momentum things like Wichita. I’ve go...
by george (a christmas story)
there’s a little bit of snow in the air/melting on the ground when it gets there we’re just a little bit of snow in the air/melting on the ground when we get there like George Bailey ...
compassion universe
the good news is the longer we go without destroying ourselves the more time we have to figure out how to love each other all the good news is while the deck may well be stacked ag...
unmanifest destiny
being too sure of things it hardens you up inside it leaves you ossified hanging onto the assumed and yet also unverified it makes you old it wears you out so the fou...
we are all sandy hook
There’s nothing more toxic to the progress of a civil society than the idea we can just opt-out of it hiding behind weapons faith or loopholes that we can take the benefits we received from...
admission possible
admission I want success but am terrified of all the downsides I’ve seen come attached to success the same way I feel about madness I guess. admission I wan...
the sauce
listening and listing listening and lessening listening and glistening listening and lost listening and loosening listening let’s give this story a happy ending because we can’t guarantee...
on the dot
dorothy was terrified of tornadoes as a child ran as fast as she could to hide outside inside anywhere away from the chaos of the sky now dorothy is middle-aged she inherited the mortgage ...
daily jumble
maybe our lives are just the universe’s dreams maddening mangled short and shuffled and ours are taken as a reflection of that perspective these lives that sometimes seem so very l...
a walk in the park
It’s not that I want to punch the PERFORMERS in the balls. It’s just that I want to punch the costumes where the character’s balls would be. I’m not a monster. I just wanna wail on Donald Duck...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.
