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in the forest of the night
maybe raging against the dying of the light is entirely missing the point maybe instead sneak around in that darkness start some new fires despite it all instead raging is fun f...
carry that weight
Before enlightenment, you must go to the well every morning for water. After enlightenment, you must go to the well every morning for water. Before grief, you must go to the well every ...
i've had a few
if you live a life with no regrets that doesn’t mean you were strong or decisive or or stalwart or brave it means you haven’t learned from anything we change and we grow and we evolve and ...
ninety-six pieces of paper
that’s what hope looks like four months of lottery tickets fished out of your wallet out of my ragged wallet eight or ten bucks a week cast into time’s dustbin not because I...
tactful cactus
the whole reason she has all of those spines is there’s something that’s sacred inside of her so marvelous and strong such love and lightness inside there to protect if it wasn’t ...
trouble
trouble with truth is it only goes so far only cares how things just are it don’t care on how they feel the truth is a trip sharp sides but a too-blunt tip double-edged sword that’s...
magpie
my heart is a magpie lining its nest with all the shiny rocks ebony eyes cannot allow lost chitinous beak can come across caw caw when my heart stumbles over a pebble ...
pineapple express
what if pineapples are actually eggs laid by the most unfortunate breed of birds ever? cah-caaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! AAAAAAH! AAAAAH! AHHHHH! how good must sex be for the pineapple bird ...
still
what a difference a comma can make “I’m standing still” versus “I’m standing, still” you see sometimes they’re the same thing right now they’re the same thing for me I’m...
tether
you will be tethered to the past whether you’re on board with it or not you do have a choice, though between the past being a weight upon chains dragging you down into useless despair or the...
split attentions
during the rise and reign of even the worst dictators and monsters people still gotta eat people still gotta sleep we still have birthdays and jobs still have sex, still watch teevee stil...
don't that beat all
on the day we got my father’s ashes the company that killed him declared bankruptcy a munitions factory that had held the region hostages for years extracting wage and benefit cuts an...
let the kids live (for alan)
what it all comes down to is we’re only a few thousand years out of the caves we are only a few thousand years out of the trees all of us, from the veld of the great rift va...
humane nature
hatred and greed are not wired into the human condition it just seems like that because we recursively create that system when I was a little boy I thought the malls were always just there...
under the table and making fun of you
you have no idea how much we wanted to follow that SUV until it stopped what with the dented-in bumper and all the Dave Matthews Band stickers on the back we just want to confront them and ...
word splay
we can’t just keep on going over how the whole thing’s going under it’s been going around for far too long what we’ve all been going through with our income on the outs with the most concre...
instead of saint peter
is there a patron saint of truckstops? does someone stand for the in-betweens protecting the liminal places both seen and those unseen who watched us at the crossroads other than the devil’...
double meaning blues
I tried raising some Cain but I was just unable tried raising racing horses but I ended up unstable tried rising dough in a warm kitchen but I couldn’t raise the bread ...
human beans
of course the dogs freak out when they see each other when you end up kidnapped by the giant aliens yourself when you’re kept by them as an amusement and companion you’ll ...
territorial pissings
just because lines on a map are of functional passing utility doesn’t make them anything actual most of the things that the lines represent are made up the roads and the buildings...
content
content, content everywhere but not a place to think content, content everywhere contentment, not a wink I’m not much for drinking I’m not saying it’s wrong but you can keep the wine ...
love's labours found
our expertise won’t save us now plain logic won’t repair us either now sage reasoning won’t redeem us negotiating won’t even buy us a breather but though no saviour in plain sight the...
over a barrel
the hoary pervasive myth that freedom must be won down the barrel of a gun is one of the worst toxic lies underpinning our entire society on the right and the left both way too many gr...
blizzard
all this awful winter snow just like life seems like a tedious hassle to be endured dealt with, cursed, dug out from beneath mocked or hated, maybe at best tolerated until that...
relativity
it feels like I’m doin’ time it feels like I’m due in time feels like I’m dew on the vine it’s time to step off the podium it’s time to jump off the cross admit ...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.
