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the middle path
revolution or Revelation they’ve trained you to love that apocalyptic taste sensation because your addiction to that elating conflating intoxication is paradoxically their best tool ...
exceptional isms
rise? Rome didn’t fall in a day either fall? it fell instead as road by road fell bridge by bridge and town by town some places didn’t know for generations that it ended that the store was n...
the continental divide
psychosis is outcome-based doesn’t care about process at best it just pretends to care about the hows no, psychosis only just wants to be heard loud everything is merely a to...
the slings and arrows of the outrageously fortunate
in an after-life I’d love to watch people try to explain away their rage, prejudice and pride by protesting “but Saint Pete, I was only being ironic!” I’d love to see the look on that face ...
as you like it
nothing ruins happiness more than a preconceived notion of what you think your happiness is supposed to exactly be allow yourself surprises allow yourself to be surprised expectation ...
i can
I will never know but still I walked in of course I did I know what was believed to be and I will never know but I can still imagine and I can understand either way
let's do this right
my nightmares are my true constant companions they follow me wherever I try to rest my weary head sometimes shot down in the streets sometimes drowned inside a capped-off waterslid...
if I only had (a villanelle)
everytime I nearly muster up the nerve I’m answered by that fear me descending down from tall tall trees demanding to be heard everytime I nearly answers with such certainty with such d...
even years later (a pantoum)
it isn’t just for your own mourning it’s worry for the living lost in grief it’s an act you fear they’re just performing through the occluding looking glass that is belief it’s worry for th...
in the end
in the end we will all mostly be strung up on thick crosses hewn from the wildest of our dreams “perfect or nothing” as an ethos is the worst of all possible worlds all the effort with n...
clarity
“things haven’t made sense in a long time” he said “that’s okay” she replied “things never made sense” “that’s just a veil time lifted from before your eyes” “now you know that things don...
bearing witness
when they say “bear witness” they really mean that you do bear it you are burdened with knowledge weighed down by understanding your shoulders sag under the ...
forward
Allow the unintentional to look unintentional. Allow the intentional to look intentional. Abandon your pretense in both directions. Abandon your ego section by section. Let yourself admit h...
content
we live in this culture that profits off never letting us feel contentment, that forces us to always striving but also almost never helps us feel better aspiration has its uses I’ve been ...
the process
keeping one foot in the practical world and one foot in the world of theory is the only way to be good at either and it’s also one of the hardest things to maintain long-term its one thing to...
parallels
the secret to parking a car in a tight spot is not caring is in trusting your instincts more than you care if you screw up the confidence of nonchalance when nothing matters it’s a...
gas
something to be said for that solemn ritual gassing up the car at the end of your long working day eleven, midnight one-thirty or two long after everyone who isn’t either desperate o...
you 3
the defenses you build up against all of your perceived threats are the only thing fueling them at all the only thing making them real let go unclench even if you need to build a whole new...
you 2
in failure there is reincarnation of a kind a dream has died but here you are alive and with the chance to rebuild yourself anew outlast your dreams watch them turn to dust and take up ...
you
definitions categories and names they’re part of you but aren’t you they may have made you who you are but they are not who you are who you are is so much more holy and weir...
itself afraid
a lack of fear just proves you’re some damned fool or that you are dead inside we waltz with our fears in each choice, in every second that we’re alive the key to overcoming t...
you can
you can reach a point where you have had so many crises you don’t know how to live without inhabiting a crisis you start manufacturing them just so you feel normal again don’t let life d...
down for the count
Counting on something big and amazing happening soon to balance this all out is almost as self-destructive as assuming the bad times will ceaselessly roll. All we can do is take...
i am bicpentameter
Am I the only one bothered that anagram isn’t an anagram? Am I the only one bothered that palindrome isn’t a palindrome? Is anyone else bothered that onamonapia isn’t an onamonapia? Tha...
the abyss, as in a mirror dimly
liberation from oppression is of vital import but the moment we go past that and oppress others we are even worse than those who hurt us until our hurt stared back this can never be abou...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.
