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anti-social socialists well-established anarchists growing listless making lists wide awake and tired of it we just want to be the best we just want to rest the contradictions are building ...

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Robert Johnson didn't sell his soul to the devil at the crossroads to learn the guitar real pretty it was an earlier bluesman named Tommy Johnson it was a common name back then for Mississi...

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how to survive a lightning strike manage to get real lucky twice once to get hit once to stay alive a fluke and a gift on two rolls of the dice wouldn't it be nice wouldn't it be nice ...

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you work the saxons I'll work the angles gather from the ground I'll cut off what dangles they call them dumb rocks we'll call them bangles we'll take our needs string them like beads ...

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whiskey tango foxtrot alphanumeric spy stations call out on the shortest of shortwaves some people say it's the Russians some people say they're actually the CIA and some people sa...

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running the booth next to the caricature artist at an arts and crafts fair I keep bobbing my head on reflex as if I was ruining the photo by having my face in the shot but no no ...

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young street buskers old professional wrestlers performance artists and master baristas these are the people I have learned from burlesque dancers car dispatchers baseball hecklers an...

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ten fifteen minutes twenty minutes shuffling there in the sick fluorescent shimmer of the Wal-Mart flood lights trying to pick a baby shower gift for old friends realizing you have no idea ...

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I saw a statue of a porcupine knitting with two of its barbs using two parts of its deterrence to bring wool yarn together into something useful into a sweater or a scarf or something ...

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yes, of course I am insecure yes, of course I am doing this partly because I am insecure but what you have to remember is that's good it's a good thing it's good that this comes from a p...

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there are days I try to be bukowski but with less misogyny there are days I try to be ginsberg but with a little bit less sodomy and there are the days I try to be twain but with a little...

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home is where the heart is breaking home is where the heart is clogging with arterial fat home is where the heart is skipping its beats in despair home is where the heart is dying so get ...

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I'm not fat I'm famine-resistant I'm not fat yes I'm two men by weight but look at it this way I'm your own personal three-way I'm not fat I'm plush I'm a comfortable couch against wh...

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drape yourself in sheets of difference or better yet advertise all of the ways we're all really the same but do it with your full heart everyday and do it without shame bleed it in your w...

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in the earliest spring up here in the north county on the lonely roads in the dead of the night if there's a full enough moon when the trees are bare if you have enough imagination with th...

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tattoos you've got yours that's fine but I wear mine on the inside flip my skin and you would find a tapestry marked off in time an illustrated man of broken plans of high-watermar...

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I never could figure out unconditional love of self without tipping overboard into seas of raging narcissism and so in hopes of not being such an asshole I raised high the flag of self-doubt...

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the worst regrets aren't the things you can see happen as they're happening the worst regrets are the ones you don't see for months down the road for years those are the ones that mak...

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we can't go back we can't go forth but I can't let it go for whatever that's worth it all went down six feet under the dirt in another life and on some other earth it's just a fli...

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in my dreams I walked a beach with Christ and watch out paths there in the night there were places where there were two sets of footprints and other times but one I asked Jesus Christ how tha...

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well I don't mind making breakfast can I be your Lucky Charmer I would gladly warm your Pop Tarts am I getting any warmer if you want I'll be yours for Life and you know I play no Trix if I...

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one day a man woke up and the first floor of his house was flooding the street beneath him was flooded-out totally there was no way out without drowning so in his second floor bedroom he stay...

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maybe Jesus Christ had Himself crucified to get Mother Mary off His Goddamned back "what's with all this preaching stuff?" "there's no money in it, honey" "go back into carpentry" "it's...

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you can say that you're all about not giving into despair but you're a whole different person when you're scared you can say you've accepted that life isn't fair but you're a whole differ...

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the house is full of moths this keyboard's breaking down there's bad juju all around did the fortune cookie lie? the creditors are calling, to start family relationships are falling apart ...

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