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UNLOCKED, pigs hate to be called cops

that lady had so much work done on her face she’s hardly recognizable now—they use her for random drunk driving campaigns and this is what happens when you get behind the wheel after you smoked the weed in the glove compartment good luck with all that luck to you and your fervent weed smoking yes…… Continue reading UNLOCKED, pigs hate to be called cops

Downtime Part 2

Turns out my hard drive did crash and I have thus lost years of writing, including some incredible photos, and some of the newer poems in the works. (This is my fault for not having an organized backup system in place.) Not good timing, either, since I have a featured poetry reading coming up on…… Continue reading Downtime Part 2

Downtime Part 1

Not a lucky week with computers, what with the power outage flipping off the mac in the bedroom and trashing iTunes’ every attempt to function, and today it’s in the cards for my laptop’s hard drive to crash. So, an early morning breakfast with Rachel, then out here waiting for tech support at the Apple…… Continue reading Downtime Part 1

Sardine Song

they say to laugh to keep from crying oh how I love to laugh how I love to laugh to try find the beauty in irony oh how I love to try how I love to try… the head be it blessed with life! the electric company goes on to building dams, damn, work this…… Continue reading Sardine Song

Write Some Shit Down

Listening to someone else’s music not really knowing what to think—it’s just that you get used to your own playlists and how they make you feel, you then wonder what the brand new will bring out in you as you start to put the writing down, your own little legacy if you put the hard…… Continue reading Write Some Shit Down

Write Some Shit Down

The Seventh Mountain

Tossed keys clack the floor, there, clank. Measured windows, a measure of Merlot, I’m doing fine. Speak of kids you call hipsters, they don nicer shirts but keep ratty shoes, really knowing nothing of punk rock barely admitting any more to care to with faces vastly punchable, mostly all stand still on the dance floor…… Continue reading The Seventh Mountain

Make Nice

make your way around the heavy corner make nice make a gambling addict out of a friend and abandon him in his most feverish moment in a town not of his choosing to stare at the ceiling splayed expanse the crumbs the network of decay the building falling down all around face hot red red…… Continue reading Make Nice

Good Advice

as I grow old my memory does different things plays its tricks I forget names (then remember again) but we sit together eating chips and salsa she asks me for a stick of gum to punch the heater back on stir the soup to make a big bowl it’s our mild little Texas winter with…… Continue reading Good Advice

Look On Face

drink this tea down look on face all the weak elephants don’t make it and oh how a mother elephant cares I feel like my love like that could surpass the simplest forests to the most complex of jungles in more loss the poem remains true especially this line remains true may tea open safe…… Continue reading Look On Face