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control
control is an illusion total control is anyway maybe you have a hand on the wheel but the road itself is always at heel there’s always how the others feel there’s always an element of dumb...
what I mean to say
you can’t just write for yourself but you can’t just write for other people either you gotta write about the things inside you everyone else feels too but think they are alone that connection, ...
masks down
the bastards may have you buffaloed may have you worrying on what’s possible what’s in line with your ideological tribe may have you confused upon what’s even real but none...
someday we'll sleep again
the bad news is that the pain will probably never get any less when you love someone that much when they’re that much a part of you it probably never stop hurting it’ll probably never even ...
past belief
don’t let nobody else in the world make you old no one else’s stern words or opinions no one’s jobs or expectations of you nobody’s laws ideas or mythologies either none of these things can ...
drinking the
Kool-Aid Flavours Could Also Be Sex Toys: The Great Blue-Dini Purplesaurus Rex Slammin’ Strawberry Oh-Yeah Orange Pineapple Shaking Starfruit Man-o-Mangoberry Cherry Cracker Grape Tan...
jewel
the sharp cut of her wit in an equal proportion to the softness of her lips in an equal proportion to the lush curve of her hips then a million other things I hope to yet discover still ...
fallen, in love
you have to give the devil this much: unlike Almighty God, he is humble enough to cut you a deal and do it in person oh, sure, of course, yes he’ll fuck you over hard but at least he w...
the one stage of grief
they tell you that you won’t always be asking yourself if this is actually a nightmare asking yourself if you’re actually just in hell every couple of hours they tell you that those feeling...
uncommon decency
if you find people berating you to be a decent human being within mixed company it’s not “political correctness gone wild” it’s not “don’t be a sensitive child” it’s not “social justice run...
postcards from New York City
they say that God gave moles their digging claws and since God matches advantage to equal flaws that high-and-mighty bastard stole away with their eyes they say there always has to be a t...
you were cool
history’s empires rise and fall great queens and kings now forgotten except their names on bathroom walls receipts for wheat stamped into clay all that remains for us...
silicon-based organism
no, keeping a facial recognition scan of yourself inside the cellphone at your hip is a great idea it’s not like any nineteen year old Russian hacker could get that in about five minutes of...
virtue signalling
I don’t give a damn if someone is being virtuous to be seen for it or if they’re being virtuous in saintly anonymity as long as you’re being virtuous you can “virtue signal” all you want, I sa...
stage fright
I like to say that I never get “stage fright” because I’ve always been comfortable on stage I’ve never been worried about being seeing me oh sure, I’m afraid that my material is awful ...
kintsugi
it’s not about how hard you worked not about the money that you made not about how many people saw it it’s about putting your truth out there put your truth out there, goddamn it the res...
hot wings
it must be terrible to love the wings at Hooters but hate the sexual objectification baked on in doomed to love that one particular hot sauce and there you are in Boobieroom eating ch...
at least
how many times have you had to lie to your lover “NO, DON’T LOOK AT MY COMPUTER!” closing it quickly “I’M NOT LOOKING AT PORN, I’M… BUYING YOU A PRESENT!” “DON’T LOOK,” you stammer, “...
better than we've done
maybe if we just all got frequent full-body massages like our pets maybe we wouldn’t start wars and invent scam ride-sharing services maybe we’d just stretch out and bat at rays of sunshi...
safety warnings
millennials, I make this old man pledge to you: I will never make fun of you for having a tattoo but I reserve the right to make fun of bad tattoos so you might as well either get none or ...
monument
there’s a CBGB’s branded restaurant at the Newark airport someone bought the name after they tore down the real thing used it to sell vinyl records and overpriced chicken salads to the rubes jus...
exiles
we gather ‘round the airport charger station much as our predecessors did around the fire electricity’s an artificially scarce thing, sure but it makes our flicker-boxes shine the same s...
better right than real
every conspiracy theory started with some desperate person deciding their view of the world must matter more than the facts of the given situation when acknowledging shared real...
the fine print
I mean, it ended badly it ended very badly, of course for any relationship to end after enough years for it to be teenage if it were a person it has to have ended very badly like a b...
liberty national airport, actually in new jersey
descending into Newark airport past refineries and roundabouts past shipping docks and used car lots we dip our wings through turbulence off toward Manhattan Island toward New York City orange...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.
