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by littlefallsmets

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March 13, 2015

obscured

Understand that your perspective is not universal. The raccoon looks upon a man and thinks “the bald ape has raccoon hands!” The octopus thinks “the bald ape has lost both of its limb...


March 12, 2015

what you could do

What you could do is beat someone to death with the world’s largest gummy worm. Then eat the gummy worm. Hope the lack of evidence exonerates you. Make sure you use an actu...


March 12, 2015

survival

What which does not kill you hopefully leaves a cool lookin’ scar that will drive the babes wild. What which does not kill you only leaves you soft and weak and hobbled an...


March 09, 2015

where as a child I'd hide

I’m slightly too old to be of the “here we are now, entertain us” generation. Just barely still the “where do we go where do we go now where do we go” generation. Both as metaphor...


Everyone says you gotta love yourself but maybe it’s more like an arranged marriage where you just accept this is who you’re permanently stuck with. It’s not...


March 07, 2015

life before wartime

You have to understand moonshine was the original craft booze. Banjos are everywhere now. The end-game of American hipsterism is the state of being liberal hillbil...


March 05, 2015

to the moon, alice

Astronaut does not kill Astronaut. It is Astronaut Law. Every astronaut gets three attempts at pooping upwards that the other Astronauts have to clean for them. It is Astronaut Law. ...


March 05, 2015

make it happen

Can you imagine how great our country would be if we gave teachers the benefit of the doubt the way we do the police? Can you imagine how strange the inverse would be if we kept ...


March 05, 2015

tolerance

If you are gluten-intolerant by all means do what you need to be healthy but that doesn’t mean you should convert those who are not to stop eating gluten as well. ...


March 03, 2015

being remembered

Transcending death as a branded whimsical marketing fiction is our American sainthood. Your meaning dies with your body but a hollowed-out version of your name lives on and on forever. ...


March 02, 2015

open mic haiku

the room is clearing as you’re rising to the stage can you take the hint? * her strong roman nose I just wanna ski down it into her kisses * no one can be deep with that much hair produc...


February 28, 2015

buy now

You’re Running Out Of Chances To Buy-Low On The Investment Opportunity That Is My Love I Prefer A Single-Investor Situation But If A Time-Share’s What You Need I’m Open To Negot...


February 28, 2015

ffs

Vulgar is the new humane, taking the “polite” assumptions of gender faith and class, stripping them away so we can all just be ourselves. So please literally for humanity’s sake ...


February 25, 2015

reality

Reality is the butcher that quarters and seals in wax-paper packages our very dreams before us. Hold him off for as long as you can. Reality will slaughter them into disjointed chunks ...


February 25, 2015

prequel

The Star Wars Prequels need to be understood through the prism of one simple yet non-obvious fact: Yoda was high as balls. All the prequels are Yoda’s retelling of the past t...


February 25, 2015

re

Regroup. Reboot. Re-evaluate. Reject all expectations, bad and good, they’re two sides of that sucker bet “faith”. Faith that good things are gonna happen and faith...


February 20, 2015

there there

You’re not a part of the darkness but the darkness is a part of you. You can’t kill it but you can negotiate it into a small useful corner. You can get there. Somewhere at the...


February 18, 2015

trouble

We are all in trouble all the time. That’s the whole point of being alive. Trying to navigate that humanely and with good cheer. Pretending otherwise won’t get us anywhere anyhow. We’ve been tr...


February 17, 2015

adirondack february

these are the days that everything smells like cigarettes everyone smokes just outside the doors and rushes in right after the last puff trailing in behind them on their jackets scar...


February 15, 2015

thought experiment

you say that you want me back, maybe except on your terms, baby as if the only way to save me is to change me rearrange me but if that’s love then you love strangely as if it’s your job to e...


February 09, 2015

it's a free country

If you have an erection lasting more than four hours, consider using it as a sun-dial. Maybe as a performance art kind of thing. If you have an erection lasting more than four hours, ...


February 06, 2015

fruition

There is this Fruition place we’re all trying to get to even though we’ve never been even though we’ve never even seen its face but we’re all trying to get the...


February 06, 2015

a modest proposal

What we need to do is threaten to round up all the normals and shoot them into the sun. In three days, everyone will have figured out a way they’re not a normal to get out of it, so ever...


February 03, 2015

show them the money

Every other prejudice in the world comes down to an attempt to justify why it’s okay for some people to be powerless and poor. But it is not okay. For ANYONE. ...


February 02, 2015

m-words

Magic miracles monsters none of these things will grant us our happy endings. But we may be able to will ourselves home for a little while. Who knows how and who...


Book Description

these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.