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February 02, 2015

that's in a name

If you MUST name your private bits at least use names traditional to another physical gender. Name your bosoms Biff & Steve. Name your penis Lillian. Name your clitoris Trevor. ...


February 02, 2015

spring forward

One can only hope that whenever the crap finally melts away there will be fertile soil for the coming spring beneath. May the terror you feel now bring apples bring wheat bring silag...


January 30, 2015

the two dogs inside you

There are two dogs in each of us. One is a pug that tries to do people things. Post pictures of him to tumblr & wait for your TV deal. There are two dogs in each of us. One of them only e...


January 30, 2015

conventional wisdom

The glass is not empty. The glass is full of air. LEARN TO DRINK AIR. A million monkeys on a million typewriters given enough time will accidentally write the lifetime works of William S...


January 28, 2015

how to kill a monster

yeah yeah yeah stare into the abyss too long the abyss might stare back sure that’s a step in the process but come on let’s face it that’s some first-level shit instead stay with it challe...


January 26, 2015

that's entertainment

the pursuit of fame is a bug-zapper’s game sucking in those who might bring the world change corrupting a few while killing off rest of the range it might seem tragic and it might seem s...


January 22, 2015

the karma boomerang

this is my favourite story about me that I was not present for ever my friends Ilio and Rosa were at a show somewhere somewhere west of here, I think, I don’t know I have intellectual glau...


January 15, 2015

nerve induction

Like Paul and the pain box, I’m learning not to flinch, learning the burn is an illusion and to not move an inch. The feeling that there’s a better you, sleeping inside, but you don’...


January 14, 2015

the carpet crawl

we are orphans to our endorphins we’re just no fun so let’s just run we’re beholden to our emotions in slow motion with old notions and we’re stranded em...


January 14, 2015

vert and earnest

I’m sick of all this introvert-extrovert stuff. I declare myself an outrovert. It will mean whatever I want it to mean. Sometimes I need a crowd of people. Sometimes I need to go and ...


January 13, 2015

real talk. real talk, here.

Nothing Kills A Crush Like Mentioning Jesus A Beautiful Woman Takes The Stage And Her Looks Are Intriguing And Her Voice Is Beguiling Then She Mutters Something About Bearing Witness And The Godd...


January 10, 2015

the h word

we go by the holy name, heretic we go by the holy nane, heathen we’ve seen no evidence of a thing like hell or heaven so we try to make this life better instead not in an unprovable after-thing n...


January 07, 2015

january

cold, bleak don’t mistake the winter-time for the forever-death of summers don’t mistake the twilight for the permanent loss of the sun don’t mistake your cold feet for early-onset diabetic neuro...


January 02, 2015

shaggy dog story

My favorite thing about Scooby Doo was their steadfast debunking of supernatural hoaxes much more possible than their own TALKING DOG. Aliens? Ghosts? Those must be old amusement...


January 01, 2015

new year

I look up in the night sky & I hope that it’s not empty, that someone or something’s gonna save us from ourselves. But no. It’s on us. If we want this human thing to keep...


December 27, 2014

information

When the world is invaded by gigantic tin cans, boots and tomatoes from outer space, don’t come crying to Ron Popeil. He tried. They’ll take your city while you’re watching your oven when y...


December 27, 2014

hot coffee

Sure, pizza is kind of like sex. However here’s a truer analogy: Coffee’s more like sex than pizza. Yes, bad coffee’s better than none but you also sometimes really ne...


December 27, 2014

time & place

This is the time. And this is the place. We’re better than blessed. We’re real. We’re better than miracles, we’re factual. We’re better than glamorous, we are actual. But we retreate...


December 21, 2014

heard it on the grapevine

up in Kern County way out past Tejon you can bet the camels if you happen to know someone who knows someone who’ll tell you where to go but if cops show up then you’re on y...


December 20, 2014

go nuts

Re-examine your self-definitions regularly. You are not a series of categories, you are a you. You might miss something great. Some one or some thing. And anyway at this ...


December 20, 2014

distance

travel does little for your longing unless your travels take you where you long to be otherwise travel just means newly-unfulfilling scenery another place to add to the list of places yo...


December 18, 2014

rough birth

the frantic trumpeting of used-up myths the lawman-murderers in the old streets trying to reverse the advance of freedom these are not a resurgence the now is a rough birth of something a...


December 17, 2014

my heart

my heart is almost new my heart is gently used my heart is pre-owned factory reconditioned refurbished repartitioned defragmented debugged freshly detailed drained and refilling my heart i...


December 16, 2014

don't

don’t mistake the darkness for proof that the light will never come back I mean it might never come back but it could don’t let ‘em trick you into thinking that hard ...


December 16, 2014

our hearts

we shred our hearts to ribbons we spread them out across the sky that we may yet outshine the stars yes that’s the point that’s why we do it we wanna either shine that bright or die or may...


Book Description

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