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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 ...


November 05, 2014

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 ...


November 04, 2014

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...


November 04, 2014

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...


October 30, 2014

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...


October 30, 2014

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...


October 30, 2014

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 ...


October 29, 2014

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...


October 28, 2014

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 ...


October 23, 2014

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 ...


October 21, 2014

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...


October 18, 2014

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...


October 15, 2014

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 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...


October 09, 2014

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...


October 04, 2014

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...


September 25, 2014

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...


September 25, 2014

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...


September 25, 2014

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...


September 25, 2014

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...


September 25, 2014

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...


September 18, 2014

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...


September 16, 2014

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...


September 15, 2014

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 ...


September 11, 2014

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.