Poetry
Spirits
she closes her eyes rubs the toy lamp wishing to be a bottle of gin to get close to cared for and loved by…
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joke’s on me
i was gonna quit smoking weed today. i had it all planned out. drank some coffee, took a walk, got serious about life. then…
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Dead & gone
it’s strange this bottle of wine how it makes me want you again last time, you just pumped me, no foreplay no thought of…
Poetry
THE DEFENSE PLEADS NOT GUILTY
don’t make a film in black and white they’ll say you’re trying to be artsy even though you were only trying to hide the…
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ELEVATOR MUSIC
the guy standing next to me in the elevator got a hard on I would have liked to have grabbed his crotch feeling the…
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Sharks
i told my boyfriend to fuck off so he went on this dating site called plenty of fish he started looking for older women…
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Dark Roast
pour-over coffee carafe at dawn watching grounds rise and fall before tipping the kettle again every ten seconds time enough to think how in…
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he
knew his poems weren’t going to change anything or move anyone, but he kept on writing, even when the bills came due, his friends…
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Insomnia Chases Sleep
Insomnia chases sleep out the window. Sleep boomerangs off the moon, and hides under a bridge I’ve never seen. Insomnia is relentless. It chases…
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Italy
I’m not sure what we’re doing here waiting for life to begin saving money writing poems that no one reads going to school taking…
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BULLSHIT MONEY
Tim says they don’t pay him enough at the gas station he spends most of his time there talking to everybody he’s right though…
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Barbara and St. Francis
Barbara sits under elms by the fountain in the park where St. Francis feeds the birds, in the park elms shade the fountain near…
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Out of our minds on a pleasant Sunday afternoon
I like the guy across the street I think he’s a vet but I can’t be sure I’ve never met him he has a…
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Moonshine
A gypsy moth mistakes the incandescence from a bulb in the porch ceiling as a sextant moon. I watch from the rocker sipping liquor…
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Cat
I’ve been sleeping on the couch for hours with the cat now I have to get up to go get the mail and become…
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Two Poems
Uphill If asked what the most beautiful sight on earth is I’d probably say that it’s the feeling of a blanket half covering bare…
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Rick
was this old friend of mine who gave me my first and only award for poetry. it was near 3 in the morning and…
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What One Gives Up
My heart has grown docile, less inclined to thrash about and strain at the leash. Maybe that’s the way it goes: we come into…
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Ghost Light
This is no ordinary dark. In my day it took heavy machinery to drill through it: ellipsoidal spotlights when Fresnel bits broke, and mixing-bowl-shaped…
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insecstasy
they mess with your head she said these tiny little fruit flies i couldn’t argue we were well into the second bottle of good…
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party’s over
after you’ve pulled out the tablecloth with the full plates of food and broken the windows and rung the bells of idiots and have…
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Streisand
is singing now thanksgiving 1985 on my record player I keep playing one track over & over—A Star Is Born I'm going to get…
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The Room
An old man stands in the empty room. It needs new wallpaper, he thinks; it had been years since he and his wife had…
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Sun Poem
honeysuckle, bees my skin smells of sun the insides of roses. I want to eat that light. Every thing that grows does
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After Caving
Our bruised bones happy, wise in mysteries, rid of tales, we stretch out on rocks in the revelation of the sun, pick at the…
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I’ll get you into a multimillionaire’s pool party
Roger said he could get me into a multimillionaire’s pool party with Jimmy Buffet playing alcohol and paradise but I don’t want to go…