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 …

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 …

Shower Fiction (2013)

The shower is the perfect place for writing fictionI’m okay.You take those motions you do every day, you don’t have to thinkLet the water wash this away.Characters prance around your mindI’ll be honest today.You walk out with the whole thing outlined in your headI’ll be honest today.The shower is the perfect place for writing fiction.

Second Attempt (2015)

So,I think you’re really attractive,but I’m also terrified of sex with you.With anyone,but I’m supposed to say that no one else matters.                    that’s the way romance works, right? So…Can we go out to dinner?I want to stare down at my food,and wonder what the fuck I should even say.                   it’s what everyone is doing.                   and …