I’m gonna be tired in the morning.I don’t care; I don’t care.The fucking fireworks poppin’ like goddamned clockwork,regular:spring-fed:grindin’:gratin’finished Gone Home, ‘n listened to some Modest Mouse,makes me think of highschool. Summer here’s only got hints of Arkansas,but i still get lost in ’em.Drivin’ home, cross from Iowa to Illinois,crossin’ the floodin’ Mississippi.Hints of Arkansas, that …
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Steel-Firm (2013)
You’ve got this steel-firm eye-contactflickin’ across the room to me.Bar-room fade ‘n bass, bass-bass guitar. spotlight dancin’ in the swirlin’ smoke blues wailin’ microphone ‘n the soft-focus jiggle of the lead singer’s braided pony tail, he’s oozing sex.steel-firm.You’ve got that predator eye,like you’re used to the takin’ of things,the leadin’ the lamb to laughter ‘n …
Special Instructions: (2015)
I have ordered a pizza specifically because it is a substitute for chicken noodle soup. if this is your last house,I would not be opposed to giving you the pizza,if you stopped and got me some soup. If you are lonely,you can eat it here,if you’re not creepy about it. I’m lonely too, sometimes. …
spring in the old downtown (2015)
The back dogwood’s in bloom again.damn thing keeps hittin’ me in the head,but those buds sure make it beautiful. network of this building don’t make sense, lookin’ at, at least eight different routers, miles of cable, antique printers run daily. get lost for days in there– love to. hands to cable bark …
Sometimes I dream I’m a coal miner. (2013)
One time,SWEAR TO GOD ABOVE,heard my dynamite cry before it went. Weren’t a pleasant sound,shook me to the foundation,rippin’ the granite from my soul,burstin’ with somethin’ I ain’t heard since. And when it went,it went like a thunderclap,rippin’ through my brain. Struck me then,maybe ‘splosion’s just a release.Deep to think about I know,but somethin’ poetic …
Sometimes I Take the Train Into the City, and Wonder if I’d Feel Better There (2013)
Yeah, I live near San Fran,A couple hours out,But we get the same news channels,And that has to count for something.
Sometimes I think God chants silently at night in the hopes that we are real. (2014)
In these past few days I’ve had more people in my bed. They’re sleeping. You’re happy, you’re happy with this. You’ve got those old home creaks in your deep breath sleep, that pilot light click and old pipe rattle, that old floor-board stretch and sigh and… That Mississippi flow, that arterial… Hold that timber in …
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Some things you don’t talk about, but really, why is that? (2013)
Senior year, among a great many other things,I spent in a sophomore level history class.Credits didn’t transfer state to state, or something like that.Generation gaps don’t need as many years in highschool,And I had no idea what was up with these little kids in class around me.I’m a senior; I don’t talk to anyone but …
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So what if it ain’t christian of you? (2013)
blood on a page looks more like a Rorschach test,than it does anything like somethin’ that’s gonna change my opinion of you. years ‘n years ‘n years ago, my great aunt died. held the service in a splotch-carpeted triple-wide, played with her children, maybe grand-children –that side of the family’s relation to me was …
Sleep Imbibed. (2014)
Yeah, ‘n he’s finally sleepin’.‘Bout time, ’bout time. been ridin’ that high like some prize, prize mare. but that’s the way, that’s the way of it.Kid like that, ain’t much more than wishful thinkin’. damned rain keeps comin’, it all just keeps comin’. …
