poetry
by littlefallsmets
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baby I have realistic expectations
I like big butts but honestly a beggar not a chooser be when a girl’s not annoyed by a man who’s not employed I get my hopes up that being funny is enough to ...
to be
there’s something to be said for putting your life out in bags there’s something to be said for stacking wood there’s something to be said for forgiveness over permission there’s something to be ...
new text document part two
those stars are just as far away as the things you’re not forgetting and though the distance is immense the sight is unrelenting it took that light ten million years to reach your riverbed alm...
new text document
go stare up at the stars don’t you feel like they’re receding? scary how few there are they’re not infinite just repeating there’s maybe just fifty-three then they cut a...
postcards from the middle
when in a Wal-Mart hellscape you see all the terrible people and you judge them all for their choices and guffaw and feel so goddamned superior realize in that moment even if it’s for a...
homecookin'
go home with the girl at Little Caesar’s then at least you’ll have pizza she’s not a supermodel or that great at conversation but there would be pizza that’s more than some people get...
salvo
don’t hit on the cute girl in the Salvation Army just seriously, man, get it together don’t hit on the cute girl in the Salvation Army I know it seemed like a good idea at the time but ...
rough water
I missed the boat, yes the Lusitania I missed the boat, sure the Titanic, the Maine I missed the boat, okay a thousand damned times but the one I finally take will be one that does...
exile
o exiles driven back into the cluttered murky warrens of your half-assembled dreams take heart we all feel like this all of the time some just think there profit in pretending it not so ...
buttermilk
there are lights over buttermilk falls at the outskirts of the city in which I live there are lights you can see on the clear nights around about three in the morning over buttermilk falls and ...
I'm Not Batman
look let’s get real here I’m not Batman despite the rumours you may have heard on the gawkers and the tee-emm-zees and all the youtube vlogs about me I’m not Batman I’m sorry but I’m just not I...
after after the gold rush
philip k dick in a moment of weakness believed himself john the baptist superman met the flash and in a moment of doubt saw that he was not the fastest as I toss and turn I hope for a woman w...
jetpack blues
everything you grew up with felt like things that always were and always will be we have video phones now it’s called Skype it’s weird we got video phones exactly but because it’s just an int...
I Don't Want To Sign Up For Ello
I don’t wanna join another social network I’m still in mourning for ICQ I still see myspace in my nightmares friendster is still at the back of my consciousness I just figured out how facebook wo...
focus
if you focus on the bad parts of your past if you hang onto your resentments jealously you’re going to end up hating everything your entire life even the good parts maybe especial...
felix and ollie
the dog and the cat each regards the other as if he was a tiny fuzzy malformed human who just happens to be the lowest on the totem pole of my family’s pack the cat regards the dog as some st...
response two
more lou reed than dylan thomas in the balance of my feeling let’s not mourn the death of light let’s set the twilight reeling let us crowd out the emptiness with jubilation let’s obliterate o...
burning bright
if I must fail I will fail not through lies or through playing the games rather I’ll fail through aiming too high if either way we’ll all eventually die I’d rather go the Icarus Route...
communicating in mist
you think it’s funny now when we watch an old sitcom and all the mistimings and misunderstandings would be fixed in a second if the characters all had cell phones? holy cats how stupid will ou...
lovers' promises
we thought it wet cement the firmament when we bent down to it with stubby fingers etched our fates and names but we realized the ground beneath us was actuall...
egg on your face
feeling bad doesn’t help anything move forward feeling bad doesn’t accomplish anything feeling bad spends more energy than trying again would it’s like that old myth about eating hard-boiled eggs...
frost variations
two roads diverged in a yellow wood and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler, long I stood until I decided to clone myself and we totally high-fived and at the end of walking both th...
that blue stuff
diphenhydramine little blue beans fifty milligrams a scene diphenhydramine diphenhydramine small azure jewels sleep-causing tools one might be enough for a person like you or at the most two bu...
vinegar
when you get away from the constant criticism the relentless pressing sense of judgement the negativity the crushing force of being treated like a failure for a little while it is like coming up ...
start me up
I forgot what it was like to have a reason to wake up before two in the afternoon but I am starting to remember I forgot what it was like to have a motivating force other than g...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.