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causalties of war
we managed to make the release of a new Star Wars movie into a collective cultural colonoscopy an uncomfortable begrudging obligation something nobody wants to actually do but you’re afraid ...
the way we weren't
we aspirated on our aspirations we consumed and consumed until we coughed up blood from consumption wallowed so far in the depths of fantasy the coma was inevitable we were Americans until...
mirror in the sky
the moon doesn’t know you the moon doesn’t know you look up to it for a light out there in the darkness the moon doesn’t know itself does not think about how it reflects the sun any more ...
the bail-out
I look up to the sky sometimes these days and ask “the bail-out’s never coming for me, is it, Dad?” by bail-out, I mean, you know, something like the lotto the big check, the windfall, the G...
punchline
it was funny once but only a little bit back when we would say things like “I’m just putting off success until I’ve built up enough experience and humility, my failures have all been ...
helpless
if I knew then what I know now I would make different decisions but I am still a person blinded by my hopes and all of my fears so I’m sure all those different decisions end up ju...
they could call it "Take Me Home, Country Roads" or something
just once, lifetime movie channel, when the powerful CEO comes home for Christmas or a wedding or Thanksgiving or God-knows-what and she magically falls back in love with the strapping far...
a step by step plan
Step 1: Be smart enough to know you’re stupid. Step 2: Be smart enough to know everyone else is stupid too. Step 3: Be smart enough to know that you and everyone else always has been...
scar wars
healing doesn’t invalidate your trauma your healing validates the fact that you somehow survived don’t feel guilty that you made it to now you made it to now that’s goddamned amazing invalidat...
the end of your broadcast day
in our youth, it was all analog hissing clouds of snowy flight random-generation from the very background static of the universe whispering sweet nothings by night distant lullabyes of gray a...
the gardener's lot
from the gardener’s perspective she trims and she prunes the roses to spread and preserve their beauty holding them back so that what remains can shine to the blossoms however the gardener ...
better than nothing
the fear that she’d see your love as a dread millstone about her neck you know, yourself as a heavy load dragging her down from dreams far less possible but far more exciting still than a...
put it all on red
America as a low-rent casino hazy and crowded and loud no clocks to tell what time it is distractions just everywhere and at every turn a promise how you will be the one luck...
love and luck
what’s easy is probably fake or it’s momentary at best and for better or for worse luck gets you there but after that you gotta figure out how to stay and every day older is a day less worth...
zero sum
These are the times that make monsters of men and saints of a handful of sinners. These are the times, again and again we all lose if we try to be “winners”. These are the times of frien...
one of the few choices you get
Fear makes you stupid. If I could chisel any one phrase into immortal stone as humanity’s final epitaph that’s what I would engrave. Fear makes you stupid. Fear makes you stup...
the future
Some cast i-Ching, some consult cards, some watch stars. I guess I dabble in frequomancy. I hit scan on the radio dial and listen for songs from from ghosts speaki...
with autumn closing in
on late summer nights like these still blazing hot in the sunshine cooler but still humid in the evenings where the loneliness of my singledom really kicks in as fucking melancholy th...
passing
the irony of the E-Z Pass program supposedly making all of these highway miles less of a hassle a line of three tractor-trailers in their dedicated convenience lane with automation delay only ...
breakdown lanes
on a long enough timeline with infinite cars eventually every roadside would be checkered to the brim with new flowers and old crosses with grievances tragedies emotional scars endless memoria...
more than a few
no… in fact… have regrets go and have tons of them ome without regrets is living like an entirely un-self-examined life possibly glacially boring or even worse yet they a...
the bear went over the mountain
it’s difficult enough to be passed over for someone or something when it is actually in some concrete way better than you stronger faster smarter richer younger older bigger smaller whate...
storytime
we are all of us just complicated bundles of interiorized narrative both foisted upon us and alternately self-invented we are all of us just stories briefly bound to t...
small wonders
Don’t let your world get small. Don’t hole yourself up inside an idea or an identity. Don’t hole yourself up between four literal walls. Nothing will drive you crazier than if you letting you...
the moral event horizon
don’t think of yourself as a “good person” think of yourself as a person trying to be good if you believe you’re good you’ll probably get lazy possibly lose perspective or even worse yet be...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.
