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law and love
law is a crude cudgel wielded by enforcers by desperate beggars at the behest of rich cowards for a half of a crumb off the top of some scion’s engorgement unearned inheritance ...
a bar by another other name would taste as sweet
you know how the first time someone sees a Baby Ruth bar they assume it must be named after baseball star Babe Ruth then someone speaks up and says “well actually it’s named afte...
significance
in your other life you would still hurt you would just have to pretend more that you didn’t in your other life you would still have lost who you’ve lost you would have just sha...
living with the dead
spectres following through each night all this could’ve been yours had the price been right but your dream bids they all went over as if crimson not four-leaf clover sp...
imaginary cake song
I want the love of a danger-haired e-girl I want to live in the Wonderland Zoo a god that styles his hair in a spit curl and Bonaroo from a hot air balloon I want to watch hol...
fifty-two
fifty two miles to empty fifty two miles an hour fifty nine minutes to go or so until it loses power and I can’t help but kind of want it and I can’t help to hope it just ends and I ca...
john and jenny at five years old
gilgamesh he really tried his best but still enkidu stayed down in his early grave theseus he went straight to pieces but he still came on back twice into the waves icarus left be...
down on paper
simply a courier an errand boy merely messenger inside these emboldened new roman times of mild recline and wild decline and you have gotten yours and I too once almost had mine ...
the statue of theseus
how many times must we bust ourselves into pieces refilling the scars with gold like that japanese pottery until we are instead a perfect golden image of who we used to be and a...
listlessness
(ambiguity your) bread and butter (always bringing home the) bacon milk (it for as long as you can) (it’s your money and your) life (don’t let them know your) secret (that yo...
eating money
when the bastards found out that they couldn’t eat money that their yachts couldn’t love them fine suits couldn’t fend off the plague they doubled-down on their stupidity...
the man behind the mask
in diminished amazement the everbrooding Batman witnessed Clark Kent resurrect yet again as happens so often for the two of them as well as all of the goddamn Superfriends de...
letters about numbered days
driving over the underpass a manual for the automatic sitting up atop underpants it’s the moving stationery still making memory dance Betty Boop will reminisce for old Beatrice Bopo...
meaning
meaning is a puzzle box a children’s game a part we all play meaning is a cheap parlor trick a sumptuous tasting menu a lie that we always betray meaning is constructed over t...
good plan sometimes
STARTING POINT: HOME Calculating… calculating… GO FORWARD THROUGH SCHOOL (you are so gifted, you are so talented) (you can have whatever you want) (you can be whoever you want) ...
synthesis
You are taught, we are taught, in America, from a very young age that we are the heroes in our own stories. That’s why we’re so good at making villains here, in America, everyone raised to believ...
word word word
(again, the formatting of this one doesn’t work in prosebox. imagine all the changes) They say that fortune favours the bracketed-B but I live in bracketed-I and so what of me? I am hopelessly le...
over time
Dave Brubeck took five so why not I? he laid down the beat transcribed the vibe he heard in the street some place some time I liked his conceit I took my try Dave Brubeck took five so why not...
mad liberties with shelley
I met a (Noun) from an (Adjective) land, who said “Two (Adjective) and (Adjective) legs of stone stand in the (Type-Of-Location). Near them on the sand, Half (Past-Tense-Verb), a shattered (Noun)...
recipe for disaster
First, to start, for the sake of art, get yourself one (1) broken heart. Now, put both (2) bare hands in and shred that whole mess finely apart. But this recipe is not merely grief and bluster. I...
warning label
Life (ergosum evanscentium) is not for everyone. Side effects made include: heartbreak of the psoriasis, heartbreak, mood swings, sleepless nights, brief fits of euphoria, anxiety, depression, yo...
today's crosswords (edit)
( I was trying to post a poem that riffed on lists. PB keeps trying to put it into a properly numeric list. Imagine the word numbers as numerals to complete the vibe.) ACROSS One. Rubicon Crossed...
intercut (a poem that doesn't work in prosebox's formatting)
(imagine it in screenplay format) INTERCUT: EXT. ACTIONS DAY TO – DAY Rarely indicate our true motivation, the actual story of a life. Even though that’s all anyone else can know about us. Even t...
grays and greys
getting old has not taught me much which shouldn’t be that surprising human beings in general aren’t good at learning things despite claims to the opposite, no, we are better at feeling thi...
our national times past
they love their football so much because it is the last plantation they have left for the cheering Sunday afternoon after bowing to their lily-white Jesus Christs the S...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.
