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by littlefallsmets

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February 19, 2014

solace

if you won't grant us patrons at least grant us some Patron stiff drinks to soften the nights composing alone if you will not grant us fame then infamy will also do because the famous alw...


February 18, 2014

bentonville

as oligarchic corporations kill local and livable jobs with short-term discounts we bargain-shop ourselves back into serfdom fellow working class people of other ethnicities are not taking yo...


February 14, 2014

fishtail

if there's anything this winter-driving teaches you it's that you cannot let yourself overcorrect if you start to wobble and you crank the wheel or slam the brakes you'll only make it wor...


February 13, 2014

eyes like mine

tornado in the sky but never of it in your eye your peace belov-ed that you will never find as we can never be only what we are inside tornado horrid beauty on the earth destroying ever...


February 12, 2014

four a.m. and weary

the tyranny of this endless now unable to react or even process just accept and keep on clicking forward on the Technicolor cyclone on all these endless nightmares I don't want to sleep thes...


February 11, 2014

mutineer

all the times that I survived but lost my place a friend my face a dream or the rent maybe it was not a doom averted maybe it was just doom deferred maybe I should have cut to the chase may...


always be skeptical but never be cynical it's a razor's edge to walk but trust me the cuts on your soles will be worth it cynicism will just burn you out but always be skeptical the world ...


February 11, 2014

charlie's epitaph

fate's just confirmation bias in a pair of fancy shoes don't try the idea of an honest day's work is just a kind of Stockholm Syndrome brought on by too much Fox News don't try destiny...


February 11, 2014

captain oh my captain

we were hopelessly out-numbered only so long we could stand but I thought we were gonna go down in this ship together I thought that was the plan you'd have a better chance without me I'm...


February 06, 2014

balancing act

some wear hearts on sleeves in the hope of attention others we do so instead to remind ourselves we still have one it's a balancing act going to the abyss edge for some darker knowledge ...


February 05, 2014

somewhere

sometimes I think upon all of the wonderful places I did not go back when I thought having somewhere to be was good enough now that I'm older I know just having somewhere to be is not g...


February 04, 2014

abandon shoes

abandon shoes and feel the earth beneath you or the rock or tile or wood you are a part of the world whether you like it or not whether it likes it or not you come from it you're going b...


January 28, 2014

burn notice

set the past blazing just torch it it's dead the past is not a home the past is a corpse and should you try to live inside you will only know the company of maggots and rot so torch it ...


January 28, 2014

butterfly sauce

caterpillars don't change cleanly inside their cocoons they don't just morph they dissolve into ooze before they are reborn cut open a chrysalis if you don't mind murdering bugs if you ...


Book Description

these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.