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the christmas that simply was
I wonder if Santa just pretends that someone’s trying to steal Christmas every year as his people to people who want to be heroic. Is this all Santa’s gentle con? How long has it al...
the long con
They say there’s people who dream of things other than being an artist but I have a hard time believing ‘em. I think they’re just making it up so you know if we don’t get there we...
the miracle
who could ever want to destroy this town? bomb it with planes? want it to end? this weird terrible wonderful shitty miracle this new york city, my dear old friend. might want ...
katherine's beautiful blues
despite all their best efforts with the hot steel they can hurl we’ll convince ourselves that there’s a secret savage world for shattered boys for shadow girls where we’ll...
before rome fell
we’re not gonna burn out we’re not gonna fade away we’re not gonna burn brightly until the end of the night, we aren’t gonna turn to salt or ash at the breaking of the next day we are gonn...
the headswap blues
even if the transplant worked and the whole thing went through would you be the head or the body which would be you if the genders didn’t match would the doctors even bother if a ma...
existential pick-up lines
You’re an accidental node of consciousness traveling around in a bag of pink ape meat for eighty or so years if you’re really lucky? Oh my God, so am I! It’s weird as hell, right...
common knowledge
It’s common knowledge but If the shoe fits, that doesn’t mean you should wear it. It might be ugly or stank as hell or you know, it might be boot weather. It might be a fly Air Jordan that...
flanders fields
The left sells you war as freeing the oppressed the right sells you war as killing heathens but the outcomes and the profits are always the same. If we weren’t spending trillions on poi...
bob
Bob your head and bob your hair while bobbing up and down in cool cool early summer evening skinny dipping water and then Bob’s your uncle. Plunk your bobber down and fish fashio...
hitting the sauce
there is a hot sauce called “Dave’s Insanity Sauce” it’s a really hot sauce I got some in my contact lens, once and I don’t eat Dave’s Insanity Sauce anymore, either I tend to overcorrect aft...
second window, please pull ahead
I’m firmly against the death penalty but I must admit if Fast Food Line Indecision were made a capital offense I’d be open to it. It’s a goddamned Burger King. It’s a goddamned Burger K...
the slip
Galaxies move in space, y’know. A long time ago, our galaxy WAS far far away from where our galaxy is now. You know, from a certain point-of-view. Buster Keaton’s house falling down aro...
the parting of the ways
No one gets full custody of memories but sometimes you wish they did and you could either hang onto every one or make orphans of them all. Vis-a-vis the “half empty/half full” I’ve decided that ...
this is why we can't have nice things
what I’ve learned about beer advertisements is that they want us to be stupid they want us to make stupid choices and they want us to be proud to be stupid Coors Beer, we already had a devic...
the handshake deal
The only way anyone ever uses the Q-Tip is the exact way the box tells you not to, so as to defend a faceless corporation from lawsuits. No one gingerly dabs around the edge of their ear wi...
dr. e's beautiful blues
Doctor Hugh Everett early changer of game-theory as smart as they get solved for Schrodinger’s cat by saying it was alive on one timeline and dead in another it was simple as that everythin...
amazing
I get to do amazing things. Sometimes I complain and even when I can’t complain I complain anyway? Because that’s who I am as a lapsed Catholic? A recovering Catholic? My Catholicism’s in...
survivor
Art slides into the cracks between the wall-boards shimmies like cock-a-roaches art hides in the margins eating the scraps we leave behind and breeds and waits living off the ...
here we are
I take my safety by finding the storm’s eye and following it until the whole thing cools off but I’m a particular kind of weird. Inspiration’s awesome but aspiration’s a load of ...
homeopathic
If water actually had memory it’d overwhelmingly only remember the dirt from whence it came. If the dirt had memory, it would remember us. Nothing inanimate has memory eve...
the calling
the streets strewn with garbage and so much disease but the worst thing in Baltimore is the BPD the city police but brother, this isn’t The Wire there’s no doubt w...
both
You are amazing. You are also pretty messed-up. I’m not sure if they’re intertwined or just both there but you have to learn to...
it's not
it’s not yours this planet this moment this species this place it’s not yours and it’s not mine either we belong to it you belong to it it’s not yours you’re a passenger you’re a renter yo...
sometimes
Even when there’s something actual to fear, they’d rather make one up anyway, it is easier to control. You’re easier to control. So am I, of course. Sometimes fake works. ...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.
