It’s been a long– hundred-packs or more, passion stuck embraces, pass-that-take-that-shoot-that-give-that-gotta-gotta-have-that, deep-sigh-song, ‘n it’s another, another dawn.It’s been a long, long time. There are no fingers as good as yours,no moans as marrow deep,no skin as home. And it ain’t bitter,been too long for that,just wonder at …
Post Type Archives: Poems
Trust me, I’ve been love sick enough they gave me dramamine; you learn eventually. (2013)
Love ain’t the realm of absolutes,it ain’t a “forever ‘n ever”,so much as it’s a “as long as we work at it”. The key ain’t wrapped up in your sex life,It ain’t in the letters you write,It ain’t under dinner plates,It ain’t hidin’ in missed dates, Your love ended because someone, somewhere, gave up on …
Truman Show, Redux. (2013)
she’s got hard nipples,I can see ‘em by the glow of that LED screen,back arched, mouth agape,still a hundred more characters to go– “tell me somethin’ I don’t know.“ “what, like my follower count?” fingers clinched ’round waist,drivin’, drivin’, drivin’ homeshe’s got hard nipples,but you know that, don’t you. all the world–all the world’s …
Traveling Song Verse Three (2014)
she calls herself highways and gasoline,‘n I don’t doubt it,but darlin’ there’s only the one darlin’,‘n she’s menthols ‘n vices that ain’t kind to mornings. I’ve written more songs about her than I could ever drink, and they keep deluging themselves to page. when I see her highways from home,life …
Top 4 poetry facts! (2014)
And it’s always, always about the moving up,the getting better. just, just a few more years, crinkled words from crinkled lips and hands.Sometimes. Sometimes I went over, just because you share your liquor, and I listened to you flirt and flirt, and I got us both drunk enough to sleep, alone.
Tonight (2013)
Tonight, oh tonight,Tonight I tire of productivity,Tonight I bow to subjectivity,Tonight I play We <3 Katamari,And watch t.v. on Netflix.Tonight will be beautiful.
Tom’s Limerick (2014)
Tom’s got lead bones,called his doctor’s phone,said, “doc I got this sinking feeling,hell, you could say whole world’s reeling.”Doc said, “Don’t you moan.”
To the Woman With the Suns in her Eyes (2013)
Water is two parts hydrogen,And one part oxygen. Lately I can’t help but feel love is two parts hydro,and one part oxy. Or is that one hydro and one acetaminophen. The sun burns hydrogen to heliumTo make light and life, the sun burns hydrogen to heliumBinding and bonding to make it so.And like all fires, …
To the 71 notes of “The Taste of Giving Up” (2013)
The Taste of – Fuck that, I’m not giving up. Now you can’t blame me for enjoying a little self wallow now and then,It helps to distill the blood,But now that I’m back to pumping hundred-proof–honest-to-god more flammable than a grain elevator on a dry summer day,you and I need to have a little talk …
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To My Unborn Children (2013)
If I ever face the fear of children again,I know I will love them more than anything. I know this because my child, William,though he was never more than blood,has taken more from me than anyone. I will fight anyone,Including myself,For the benefit of my children. They are worth more than a thousand times me. …
