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the last extra-value meal
ronald mcdonald transposed into the iconic images associated with Jesus Christ ronald mcdonald dividing one single bag of Filet-o-Fish sandwiches and feeding the multitudes ronal...
ovid's transformations
today is the last day of some phase in your life you might not see it for years you might never know because it's small but every single day you live is the end of something for you today i...
the size of the fight in the dog
ollie the dog would kill every single thing on the earth that isn't a human being if he could so it's probably for the best that he doesn't have access to a machine gun or thumbs it's...
conventional wisdom
at the comic book convention in the albany airport hotel I saw Gambit sitting in the corner checking his e-mail on his laptop I saw the Green Power Ranger looking at pornography sideway on ...
missing links
just because I don't understand your lifestyle choice as golfers doesn't mean I think you shouldn't be allowed to get married it's not my thing I'd prefer to not golf myself I'd prefer to no...
two pages about rain
I am not afraid of the rain I've crashed cars on the snow and the ice I've crashed cars in the California sunshine but never in the rain I know in my heart the rain will not be what gets me...
i should be in new york city instead
middle of June always gets me down but especially when I'm back home all the really nasty things happened in the middle of June when I was a kid before the Jell-O in my head set and you cou...
4 wonderwall
They say that the biggest tragedy in the world is when a parent outlives his or her child. I don’t doubt it. I’m not a parent. But I can imagine. Losing loved ones screwed me up at times in w...
3 roadshow
like an heirloom antique table hope is a damned fine thing to have it will make where you are more beautiful it has a chance of paying off in the long-run but you shouldn't lean too hard on i...
2 jalopy
these are the lives that I have lived these are the cars that I have driven a colt run into a ditch a twice-mothballed sunbird a truly banged-up voyager a hand-me-down cutlass a shiny si...
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if you'd rather have a fan club than a group of friends I don't trust you
ping
crank your words out with the same force as you'd hit baseballs with an aluminum bat the sting of the slam ringing hard back into your body for as far as the ball flies yes there will be ti...
best worst movie
the only movie I ever walked out on I didn't walk out on it was the second feature at a drive-in so I didn't walk out actually I drove the movie was called "Scary Movie Two" and I didn't hav...
flex points
skinned my knee on the dance floor pretty bad stumbled and fell and laughed it off but later in the night I had to admit there was so much blood there was just so much blood hell of a time p...
history lesson
achilles, sulking in his tent achilles, hulking and intense achilles, sulking with intent achilles, bulking up to vent achilles achilles achilles had a weak point at his heels achilles ...
stranger
you know you've hit your nadir when you start doubting your own memory when the good parts of the past seem like delusions or illusory or compounded with interest from the bad ways they all ...
stage three: bargaining
think of all the things you touched today shipped in from a half a world away so a rich man maybe only one town over didn't have to pay someone a living wage made in Malaysia printed in Taip...
summerteeth
that first night of summer with the air conditioner on you feel like you've defeated nature that first night of with the air conditioner on you feel like you're a god that first night when y...
duct tape
I have this clipboard that I keep my poems or my songs upon when I read or when I sing and here's the thing it used to be my work clipboard when I was a medical courier in LA when I went...
day one/day two
I called it day one the day I woke up and remembered in mansions and free clinics with psychics and with cynics I've seen a small slice of most things on this Earth except for war and givin...
undo
control-z undo there are the times on your laptop when you go to "paste" and you find some old love-letter unsent on your computer's clipboard accidentally cut and saved instead of e...
stories
Götterdämmerung, Bildungsroman both sound real classy in the original German the second means "coming of age story" the first means "the twilight of the gods" I think I feel both of these co...
spring back
the birdsong so deafening the blinding sunlight I want the city I want the night I'm sick of bad dreams spilling out full life reviews I want to change I want something new I want a reaso...
atomic mom
it's a difficult thing holding on to an atomic bomb it is even weirder when the bomb is your mom because my mom is the bomb she is the best in a crisis the lady gets things done she's t...
story
rambling home near midnight marveling at the beautiful moon's light upon the horizon until I get closer and see its advertising an illuminated billboard reminding us of job openings for w...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.
