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hope springs
I'm not saying I'm not deluded too I don't have faith in ghosts and monsters but I do have the gambler's fallacy and sometimes it is almost as bad so an I declare my lottery addiction a non-...
you can't spell "truth" without "rut"
never mind for lines the shortest distance between two points is a lie and there's a subtle difference between a one-way lie and a mutually-agreed-upon fiction the difference is the lie h...
reverse stage fright
reverse stage fright is a serious disorder reverse stage fright is the bane of my existence reverse stage fright is the state of only being comfortable when you're on stage in the act of cre...
loose change
it feels like everything around me is in a fevered state of flux everyone is cracking up getting fucked moving in moving up breaking down moving out flipping out signing in sleeping aro...
self-mythologizing
I'm a prince up on a parapet and I'm letting down my hair I've known the showers in ivory towers and the friendly ghetto stare I've been thrown out for a lack of funds in the east and...
meltdown
when the prevailing winds conspire to leave me the comparatively level-headed person in the room holy Christ something has gone wrong when my usual steady rain of melodrama and self-doubt...
Mea Maxima Culpa
this is the process the process is this rendering myself scatterbrained to obfuscate the pain filling my brain with everything that I can fit in there to dull the desire to staunch the ...
in the end
chalk it up to a lifetime of lessons learned chalk it up to a five lifetimes' worth of bridges burned chalk it up in a list of debts and credits earned chalk it up to misapplied blame ...
80,000 Points For Extra Life
we'll go down to the mall pretend we're still nineteen with our futures still bright and the grass blaring green pretend from Macys to the Target we'll pretend from end to end where the a...
the limping friar
I threw out some old glories clad in ones that still apply I go down for water the well is a lie before enlightenment the monk goes to the well for water and after the enlightenment the ...
addendum
not so much a prodigal son as a never-was prodigy and yet here I am demanding third chances reconsider me when you check that resume when you smell the laurel trees when you take the J-l...
the vinyl countdown
Experience is analog. Memory is digital. An amalgamation of approximations. Memory is a lossy medium. Memory is an mp3 of life's live set. Memory shaves off corners for better compression. ...
a boy who reads
I have chopped firewood but I honestly hate it I've only ever done it so that my aging father wouldn't because he can't admit that his heart can't take it but I hate to sweat and it makes ...
upon an old warehouse
tear it down blow it up give it away sentimentality is nice but we can drown as rocks in the water by clinging too tightly to yesterday tomorrow is coming and we can either tokens of th...
mister mister
madness is only a gift if you know how to keep a lid on it if you know how to simmer that shit channel it keep it under control most of the time because if you can't it's even worse than...
the rules
it's not just a matter of knowing the rules so you know how to break them know the rules so well you can make them devour themselves punch their own faces fake their own deaths rip out thei...
love's limiting factors
no, love does not conquer all love does not always win but love has a puncher's chance when the fix isn't in love can win any fight that's fair and that has to count for something no, l...
better
brother I wasn't stuck in limbo maybe limbo was just stuck in me maybe I wasn't burning in hell punished in manners ethereal maybe my business was biding my time working on better material ...
you're welcome
I talked the gods out of the last three end-times but no one gives me credit Odin was going to lay down Ragnarok so I strolled up to Asgard and I said Odin, Earth is where I keep all my st...
it's always both
hope without doubt is madness doubt without hope is death but if you've got both and if you've got breath then may hope be your sword and doubt be your shield now is the new future liste...
beat-if-ication
I am the patron saint of lost car keys and rewrites long shots and lawnmower repairs the patron saint of coffee refills and ignoring the details the patron saint of longing and loitering o...
disorderly conduct
some day in some future DSM in the not-too-distant formulation of what passes for our mental illnesses we will have a new way of being sick inside instead of a Dissociate Disorder we will ha...
metaphor
there is no one in the world who is as great a driver of cars and yet as terrible a parker and un-parker of cars as I this is a metaphor this is a metaphor for my entire life when I get o...
performance anxiety
you are conducting a performance art piece wherein you play out the role of a human being a literal part of a lifetime keep this in mind the way you wipe your ass the way you mourn your...
a long way to unitary
you are not who you were you are a parade of living and dying neurons deluding themselves through proximity into believing yourself unitary you are not one person you are a progression of p...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.
