poetry
by littlefallsmets
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the silly season
while you were out running the Boilermaker marathon I was in an air conditioned bedroom with my jammies on what are you doing with your life? while you were out there sweating in the street...
the brewery blues
Ever since they were kids they sang about dying young one day they woke up old and singing the exact same song. At the weird thing across the street they’ll sing it all...
inspiration and persperation
Oh you poor gullible bolds. Fortune favours the already fortunate. The already fortunate are laughing behind your backs. They’ve convinced you that your path to glory is just as easy as put...
the third option
Sometimes the responsible thing to do is not to take on commitments rather than going crazy fulfilling them accept when not to at all. If you know you’re gonna be an artist with few ...
jade helm
I really enjoy that most of the people who think the government’s about to invade live in rural hellscapes no one would want to claim. Nobody wants Amarillo Texas. Not even Amarillo Texas w...
christmas in july
frosty the reindeer had two antlers made of coal fed Coca-Cola to polar bears and they didn’t even die had a belly like a bowl full of jelly that mystics could follow from the east glow...
brooklyn owes the charmer under me
Some people miss the summer sounds of insects peeping. I miss the rock of subway trains and roll of distant car alarms. I miss the noise sometimes so much that I could burst. I...
the body
I sing the body eclectic bones Adirondack quartz almost unbreakable as almost-diamond eyes narrowed and skeptic by Los Angeles sun and heartbreak legs toughened by the rattle ...
lessons
There’s a difference between “love” and “ameliorating this person’s madness makes me feel useful”. Can take a lifetime to learn it, tho. It took being left by someone that I loved but was...
forward march
does anyone else get the sinking feeling we’re just wrapping up the loose plotlines before Western Civilization’s big finish? all the advancements I’ve seen in my life ...
maharishi
There is no universal answer. There are no gurus. If you’re gonna find any answers at all, you’ll just find the ones that work for you. No poem is going to help you out. No priest or mot...
bluegrass
Your brother’s so bluegrass, he gets paid in suspenders. Your brother’s so bluegrass, when he took a pig to the county fair, it won the Pabst Blue Ribbon. Your brother’s so bluegrass,...
go fish
Give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day. Set a man loose to fish with greed in his heart, he’ll get rich and the fish will go extinct. Give fish! Give a man a fish he...
tapestry
I’m not “making excuses” for not having a job because I didn’t do anything wrong. I’m explaining why it’s so hard to get one. But it’s adorable you think you can break me with merely pres...
inevitable
when the super cute singer mentions her boyfriend that’s okay it means I didn’t have a chance from the beginning it’s a shortcut through the inevitable when the super cute singer mention...
gear
A gear is just a wheel with teeth. A wheel is just a square with one edge. An edge is just where one thing ends. An end just meets up with another gear. ...
pieces
we are all jigsaw puzzles and we all lost our box tops so we are in the dark as we cobble away searching for pieces that may or may not be missing if when somebody loves you but hat...
mad maximus
Walking down the beach with Jesus I saw where there was both our sets of footprints then I saw when there was just one so I asked Jesus what was up. “Where there was one set of footp...
edges
At the water’s edge it’s so easy to stay leafy green but at the water’s edge there’s more floods than you’ve ever seen that’s the trade off of unstable ground that’s what ...
the end that never came
you can spend your entire life steeling yourself for disaster but if disaster never comes then your time lost was the disaster disaster comes or it doesn’t you roll with it or y...
the herkimer poem
a trip to the local pulminology clinic it wasn’t the worst and it wasn’t the best the lady chain-smoking next to the oxygen tank turned out to be just toting it out for her mother ...
the big question
have I given away enough of my past as presents to finally have my future back? have I finally realized that I’m not dead? have I finally realized that when they told me that I ...
go praise yourself
Jesus probably knew the sad fact that people were going to wage war in His name but all the terrible music probably shocks Him. The Crusades, sure, the writing was on the wall ...
superfluid
When things get too tense, too cold and too dense, reality itself wants to climb the walls, almost as much as I do. It certainly makes an emotional sense, ...
American They
The cake mix they made has powdered egg in it already. They only have you add an egg to the mix to make you feel like you did something. You didn’t. America. They love pretending there...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.