Lock-Down (2017)

Been focusing on security at work,not like we’re fighting off NSA threats,just your basic padlock on a locker,deadbolt on a door kind of code.       and I can’t,           can’t quite see where all this will go,and unlike literally anything else in lifeI can plan around that. make the clever choices where:       I may not …

“Let’s not talk about this, okay?” (2013)

We don’t talk about the jit—tersof those three days you disappearedHow you were embarrassed to admit to me. We don’t talk about beer pong,Drunk beyond recognition,Beerthick bellies, when truths burst forth. We don’t talk about the pictures of you,Before-before-and-afterWhen you used to think I was sweet. We don’t talk about the things we lost,The things …

Let’s Be Honest, Alright? (2013)

When you send out an Amber Alert,And hide all the additional informationbehind ad-laden redirects,You may be an awful person. You are literally making moneyfrom someone’s ongoing tragedy. And you aren’t even hiding it. I’m looking at you local news affiliates. (I already sent them a message, you think you might too? I have yet to …

Lessons in Love (2013)

It ain’t that “love” is a dirty word,Ain’t that it don’t mean nothin’,Ain’t that you should stop lookin’. I don’t regret none of what my love’s taught me. That first time,Des-per-ate, sloppy,She put up with my drool slidin’ down her lips.She was my first kiss,Passion sloshin’ over the edge,Never saw her naked,Knew I loved her …

kid (2013)

sit down, kid,have a cigar.built this country on tobacco, kid,ain’t nothin’ more American. Now tell me kid, what’s the problem? wait, pour yourself some Jack,have a sip.don’t that remind you of somethin’?    takes me back to those days in that house on Kendell,    you remember that,    screened porch,    that steep hill in the front yard,   …

Kasia (2015)

strange as it was to go so long without your voice,I asked you to say your name for me before you went,and I’ve been rolling it around ever since. there are so many things I want to share with you,but what strikes me the most as I chant your nameso even my grinding memory will …

Kansas Highway Lullaby (2014)

Long-legged tired nights,lookin’ out at fallowed fields,rows ‘n rows goin’ by in starlight,wind-break trees flickin’ by ‘n by.    ‘n by            ‘n by                    ‘n by.‘n drift, drift off to sleep.