“Still waters run deep” I can’t help but feelin’ like you got this wrong idea of me.I write like I write like I write, ‘n it don’t hold much stock with reality. If I had my way,I’d be all oak ‘n leather ‘n creaky history,Rough edges only rounded by weather ‘n time;Pure ‘n simple. I …
Post Type Archives: Poems
[Apply Online.] (2013)
[Apply Online.]But how to you glean whether or not I have the charisma for good customer service from a form? [Apply Online.]How can you tell how firm my handshake is,Whether I walk with confidence,Or the exaggerated world weary apathy article after article bestows upon my generation. [Apply Online.]But I came in, resume in hand,Showered, shaved, …
Anxiety Too (2014)
I apologize. I am unreliable.I am unreliable because I cannot rely on myself.I cannot rely on my emotions.I cannot rely on my thoughts.Sometimes they are lies.Sometimes they are flimsy facades for something else.Sometimes they are exactly what they seem. Sometimes a baby’s laugh will make me beam like sunlight, today it made me cry. I …
Anxiety (2014)
No, I wanna explain it.I wanna explain the bad days.There’s this symphony that everyone is playing,it’s got those melodies, those overtone harmonies,‘n they’re all keepin’ perfect two-three-fours,‘n they’re all in bell kicks ‘n kick flips, and then you come in playing a kazoo and siting criss-cross-apple-sauce. ‘n they’re all …
An Open Question to Slam Poets: (2013)
Guys, seriously, I love you, I love it when I get to get on stage with you, but why do so many slam poets slip into that same sing-song metered cadence bull-shit for everything? Language can be brisk, clipped, and halt. ing. Language can be irregular, and cacophonous to the ear. Sure, language can be …
An Open Invitation for a Long-Distance Relationship (2013)
At 4 a.m. I vividly remember her smell.This is only a problem on nights I’m desperate for comfort,when I remember how we used to sleep together,waking an hour before the rest of the house,so we could have those few hours together,what we assumed was a preview. That was too many years ago to matter.So let’s …
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And that’s a promise (2013)
I’m gonna fuck you with your feet up by your ears,holdin’ you by the ankles,lookin’ you in the eyes. I don’t care if you’ve got tits or dick or both or nothin’ at all floppin’ round,I’m gonna fuck you with your feet up by your ears. I dunno who you are,I dunno how we’ll meet,‘n …
An eye for an I. (2014)
And the tide still rolls in storm-waters,and the froth still washes away.Rage can rage, will rage,but moments the sky is divine,and the wind is right,and there ain’t no warpath to stop a folk from lookin’ up,‘n remembering the wonder.
An Exchange of Love-Poems: Translated (2013)
I. : With Love: Piss and vinegar; piss and vinegar is the reason I fell in love with you. You screaming to the pool boy about this cheap-ass wine he sold you, while your pulsing garter snake is turning the water around your waist a telling shade of purple. Piss and god-damn vinegar. And I …
An Admission. (2013)
I’m saying this,Not as an invitation to you,But an admission to myself,If you ever want to fuck me over,Whiskey is the answer.
