Oldest Teenagers
I need you to be
This for me
I know it’s not
Who you are
But it’s a start
And I’ll be
That
For you
And sometimes
We’ll trade places
Without
Telling each other
Sunday 29th December 2019 2:26 am
life- the movie
it started out promising
it was somewhat difficult
the humor the quest
the predictable romance
It was smooth going just until
the second part of the middle
then I started to flag
overwhelmed by the spectacle
and the ending was shit
how they all succumbed
to the various diseases
and other health issues
I guess there’ll be a next
g...
Saturday 28th December 2019 7:32 pm
you're such a nurse
everyone hurts
you’re here
to save them
seeing several people at time
night comes fear you’ll
run out of patients
coming from that
snaking endless line
professional
your stoicism
allows for a rationing
of looks desires smiles
back on your back
you can enjoy it
beauty to this chaos
blood shit sublime
Friday 27th December 2019 1:15 pm
last year
I loved a woman
with four bodies
she didn’t have children
so instead divided her time
between helping strangers
and looking for happiness
took me a while to figure her out
have to say that I never did
I blew my chance
all four times
but we can laugh about it now
in our long chats
Thursday 26th December 2019 2:46 am
Strangers
she insisted on keeping her distance
told me she knew how to use it
helped bring things into focus
putting them in a wider context
didn’t mind feeling uncomfortable
though I never fully got used to it
never met in the same place
don’t think she really had one
see her everywhere although
It’d be a stretch to say
she ever looked “comforta...
Monday 23rd December 2019 2:23 pm
Rhyme Scheming
I’ve betrayed you so many times
With so many looks so many lines
And a small part of me, the outside
Thinks you’re stupid to love me
I’ve imagined sex with all your friends
And magazine covers on lonely weekends
And we could never share
The mountains of pornography
Yet here you come like a puppy
With something just for me
And all my thoughts of infidelity
Dissolve in the laund...
Tuesday 17th December 2019 10:49 am
Security
All I ever wanted to feel
was safe
So I attached myself to things
Greater than myself
And I failed as dreams
Kept me awake
I started living my life twice
Once for me and then for my fears
I thought I was being generous
With myself and my time
And that feeling of feeling safe
Slipped away
Leaving me to face
My dreams al...
Monday 16th December 2019 3:04 am
At happiness headquarters
"Sadness has been busy
Innovating in its laboratory
Don’t be fooled by
Brand awareness
We have to keep up
We’ve become complacent
Thinking that sadness
Stands still–it doesn’t
Not even for a minute
We’re not polling well
With the under ninety-sevens
We need
Some sort of lift"
Saturday 7th December 2019 3:29 pm
Dinner Tonight
The American appears to cough
While mouthing an obvious lie
Relying on a charm
He’s stolen from another guy
Laying out a vision
Suspiciously familiar
As the other actors at the table
Poke at a cold dinner
While the Canadian seems to choke
On her hemp salad
The Chinese envoy excuses himself
To send another message
The American proposes a toast
To friendship and progress
Saturday 30th November 2019 10:08 pm
Problematic
go with that approach
to a certain point
til it gets too messy
but oh what a ride
don’t go backwards
can’t even fly
stuck behind it
most of your life
it’s problematic
how it resolves
whichever way sliced
there are missing parts
problematic
how we go out
contemplating the mystery
until its done
take another metaphor
slosh it around
drown it until
its color runs out
...
Saturday 30th November 2019 11:59 am
forward reflection
I want to live to see the day
when we can’t believe
how mindless we were
how we could let so much
go to waste
and think somehow
it was modern
sophisticated
or western
we’d put our minds
in tangles
to make sense
how our compassion
by necessity had to be
studied and selective
wanna live to see that day
wanna live to s...
Thursday 28th November 2019 1:23 pm
Appointments vs. Disapointments
Don’t throw it out
Change yourself
Or doubt
Your own acquired taste
Lost on many
Gone to waste
On the dozens
Who can’t swim
Or live on a limb
There’s something
Else
Waiting for them
And when you do connect
And it feels deeper than sex
That sense of relief
Felt with someone
With whom
You really get
Monday 25th November 2019 11:40 am
Bahbahbah
I need to know that you’re in love
That it’s still working for some
Even though I’m an atheist with it
It’s nice to think that it might exist
It’s strange to see you acting out
How you breathe life into
The worst cliches as if
They had a value beyond ironic
And now that the season comes
And everything for the young and dumb
Assaults our intelligence
Glad to see you can still ...
Sunday 24th November 2019 1:05 am
Our Media Family
she was like a sister to me
weekdays after three
I stole my mannerisms from him
Decades later I learned what they meant
She told me I was just like
Some actor she had crushed on
Until I didn’t act like
Happy ending expectations
And I keep looking around
For someone to shout “cut”
Listening for laughter overdubbed
After these scenes play themselves out
Saturday 23rd November 2019 8:51 am
We’re Evil
We kill people
Eat animals
Destroy planets
Yet remain comfortable
Somehow
Far away
We’re just like
Star Wars
Or something
Sunday 17th November 2019 8:18 pm
60%
All my desires
Ambitions
All the anger
Those decisions
I try to keep in mind
Not going blind
Remembering
We’re water
Your beautiful shape
My giant lips
Your garden my snake
Drowned to our tits
There’s nothing to hold
On top of these bones
Just a couple of drinks
Under fancy wrapping paper
Saturday 16th November 2019 11:43 am
The cosmos grunts
You enjoy highlighting
Your reproductive qualities
As if there was a shortage
Of people in the world
You project an image of
Cool confidence in plastic
Your mantra is “No drama”
As if the world wasn’t spinning
A thousand miles per hour
On its axis
And I want it
Although it’s bad for me
Rotating at 67000
miles per hour around a star
And I think I’m in love
But I do...
Monday 11th November 2019 7:57 pm
Best Things
the best thing about
being rich would be
you get to have
nervous breakdowns
where you do
nothing
but eat prepared foods
and have nurses
for several months
whom you later marry
and your bills are paid
and you don’t get fired
don’t have to sell guitars for fifty
and favorite books for twenty
and people seem
...
Monday 11th November 2019 2:55 pm
Geminis
one makes you feel safe
one tears you apart
one wants to submit
one makes you bark
you play scenarios
over in a loop
with one life to live
to give up the goods
you go for a split
you can multitask
where’s your head at
you hope no one will ask
Monday 11th November 2019 1:26 pm
my rationale
my rationale
I’ve lost my rationale
but I haven’t told anyone
I go around mouthing my lines
with just a hint of enthusiasm
I stand back where I used to bite
I take more pleasure in viewing
where these children get it right
how they respond to the discipline
at night I look around
methodical without permissions
searching for interesting sounds
to t...
Saturday 2nd November 2019 8:37 pm
I saw the lights switch off and on
The pressure pushes down
On the children
They respond by
Creating a future
We’ll never understand
And whether we help them
Or hurt them it’ll make no difference
As it won’t be a world
We’ll be welcome in
Wednesday 23rd October 2019 2:40 am
Needless To Say
I’m disappointed to discover
I’m not your only friend in the world
I took the responsibility seriously
And gave you my undivided attention
during our speakerphone
cleaning sessions
I’m trying to decide
what would give me
satisfaction
at this point
I’m leaning towards
painful silences
interweaved with barbed comments
and m...
Monday 21st October 2019 12:59 am
Me(me)
I never learned how to share
and now it’s too late to care
people will look at certain
aspects of me and think,
“she’s missing something
crucial there.”
But I won’t hear them
What’s more I wouldn’t listen
You see it’s a pretty
good system
if you’re just
so happy with yourself
Sunday 20th October 2019 2:30 pm
get away from the mess
I made a mess over there
I feel better over here
don’t want to go near it
don’t want to think about it
the mind demands
something else to compare
to suggest
we’re getting somewhere
if we had to go back
and confront it
there might be
some kind of damage
we move to a third place
for context
now given
the proper distance
we ca...
Saturday 19th October 2019 6:38 pm
The art of flim
the art of flim
we were in love for
nine seconds
enough time to caress
the outlines
of a poorly-lit
photograph
in love for minutes
of zooms
captures
and lenses
I saw our future
and past
come together
in a slow-motion scene
of incomprehensible
loneliness
captured for
eternity
Saturday 19th October 2019 12:36 am
#2
Everything stays busy
As you bring the world into me
All its collapsing grinding acted out
On the bed of the world
Everything passed from you to me
Extracted transformed
Disposed of
Unceremoniously
Without taking a second
To ponder
What it all
Could mean
Thursday 17th October 2019 11:54 am
Your cheatin’ heart
In another body
I lose myself
I pretend I’m someone else
Up to the point
Of a little death
In another body
We flip the planes
Adding dimensions
Yet we can’t cross over
It doesn’t stop us from crying
As we grow smaller
Then disappear
Into a day
The size
Of a molecule
Wednesday 16th October 2019 4:33 pm
It stinks
He swallowed the matter
Now the matter’s screaming
Bent over double
Completely revealing
His insides cry
Like any other
Louder at times
With the stench of sulfur
To get the full picture
We go to private places
What goes in what comes out
Says more about our existence
Than what we believe
What we preach
What we do how does it
Connect to what we think
Doubled over fac...
Monday 14th October 2019 8:09 pm
bathroom pass
can’t stand it anymore
this desk the way you talk
can’t hold on you know
need to run my fingers
along the wall
clicking against the grout
give me the pass
need it fast
the only escape
I can make
the bathroom pass
hallway stairs
where my friend’s
waiting
he’s on the stairs
where we prepare
the ...
Tuesday 8th October 2019 1:48 am
Y
why do you write
there’s nothing to do
the tv is broken
books I own are too small to read
goats already scratch the ground
Friday 27th September 2019 1:53 am
the internet
for some reason
I keep going back to this typewriter
hoping it will be inspired
enough to write something about me
I check it daily sometimes hourly
I try to sneak up on it
waiting for some sort of
big surprise
it’s happened before
I can’t remember when
but it did happen
so I keep checking on it
like checking for new beatles
in england
Wednesday 25th September 2019 7:45 pm
You’re (still) wrong
I enjoy contemplating
how wrong you were
I endlessly go over
your every move
right up to the point
when I confronted you
and it all came down
shattering like crystals
I’ve relived the scene
a thousand times
bought the dvd
watched the concert live
but I’d give it all up
for a second of your time
just to tell you
...Tuesday 24th September 2019 8:27 pm
so beloved
what passes for
personality
are just
preferences
your morality
guesses
night comes
and you embrace the opposite
survival of the fittest
someone wins the other submits
you try these poses on
like underwear twisted
at the foot
of the bed
and you think about
all you’ve consumed
and what you’ve
cre...
Tuesday 17th September 2019 2:27 am
Primitive
When something is new
They’re the first to grab it
And use it to smack you
In the face
Now it could be a tool
But you only know it
As a weapon due to their
Tremendous reach
And just as they’re
Bending double
To gather the next
Shiny mystery
Some of us might
Find a moment
To figure out what
The last one’s purpose truly is
Friday 6th September 2019 12:00 pm
The Question Always Is
After their trust
Is gained
During a certain
Pause
While their friends
Are in conversation
The boy will ask you
If you think
there’ll be a future
And you owe him
The truth
Friday 6th September 2019 2:06 am
For everyone’s benefit
Just a reminder
For everyone’s benefit
This is a humor-free workplace
We can’t risk anyone feeling
Offended due to differences
In caste, race, or class
However you are reminded
That responding appropriately
To a light-hearted remark made
On the part of your administration
In your direction
Is to be considered an appropriate
Response to their display
Of human warmth
Pleas...
Tuesday 3rd September 2019 11:19 pm
Tips
Over the next few decades
I’ll be investing heavily
In pain
I didn’t know if you’d
Like to jump in with me
In it now
I’ve had a recent run
In outbreaks
And rented a lodge
In Sciatica
There were rivers of it
With fresh waterfalls
And the news
There’ll be plenty of news
To set the mood low
You can feel it in the air
Le...
Tuesday 3rd September 2019 3:28 am
All in all
I was just thinking about
How simple my happiness is
I need friends
I need to make money
And feel in some tiny way
I’m not making the world worse
Pretty illusive
All in all
Monday 2nd September 2019 5:23 pm
Flipping Switches
In your absence I’ve assumed your positions
Taken up your points of view
I guess I was always jealous
You’d gotten there first
I practice my apologies
And head tilts
Imagining Marcelo Mastroianni
As I rehearse
By chance I call your number
It’s always a surprise
How you sound
And I discover you’ve taken up mine
-Still no common ground
Sunday 1st September 2019 2:28 pm
My Parents Went To Cancún
you got a shiny new bike
all I ever got was love
doing headstands on a mountainside
all I ever got was love
in a world of shiny things
you’ve gone insane
maybe I can help you with this
in my own way
you want everything
all I ever got was love
past the point of embarrassing
when jungles are burning up
and you’re spinning in yo...
Saturday 24th August 2019 1:32 pm
We're on the co-pay
every time he paves a park
burns down a lot
calls the cops on
children's songs
we get sent this bill
payable on delivery
his wife insists
he talk to someone
he only agreed
after certain conditions
were met–
he didn’t have to pay for it
he says he did it for her
in the helicopter
she suggested maybe
another museum
...
Friday 23rd August 2019 9:35 pm
When were we?
When were we?
I see you again
I forget when we are
Have we just met
Are we exes
Did we survive a war
Your voice plays over
Speeding cars
While nothing moves
Inside me struck
An innocent bystander
And these memories
Mix in dreams
Recomposing themselves
Army dolls
In home-made dioramas
Wednesday 21st August 2019 1:34 pm
Strangers
when the clock shatters to pieces
and the mirror starts to bend
and you can’t remember the names
of those you called your friends
you can’t go back home
everyone’s gone
strangers without baggage
gotta keep moving on
finding love, your purpose here
a beauty in others, an end to your fears
you keep it moving on a train in a car
you keep it m...
Tuesday 20th August 2019 9:01 pm
Everything's a metaphor
Everything’s a metaphor
enslaving us
in its nothingness
while our jobs
are to sell-
something we can
never possess
it keeps us happily
depressed
and skipping on our way
to our ends
without ever even noticing
the passing years
Monday 19th August 2019 10:28 pm
Crying
I cry easily and often
at sights of injustice
to a well-written song
in a happy mood
at the thought
of my parents
and the state
of the natural world
and I think
what good does it do
and then I realize
that’s not really the question
Sunday 18th August 2019 5:38 pm
Boring History Shit
Someone’s gonna die tonight
Someone’s paying the whole price
For something we don’t understand
To them it’s perfectly clear
Someone’s fighting an invisible fight
Making the ultimate sacrifice
For a higher ideal
That gives them reason to live
We’ll read about it later
Watch a tv special
Maybe there’ll be a statue
Or a day off school
...
Sunday 11th August 2019 1:26 am
Enormous Doubts
they’re over there on the couch
while I’m lost in thoughts
you see something in me you need
that I don’t get at all
when you come to my house
everything starts to bounce
you remind me of why I feel
the need to work at all
come touch
my enormous doubts
they get bigger
all the time
come touch
my enormous doubts
near where
...
Friday 9th August 2019 6:42 pm
Unproven Theories
When I showed you all those things
Shared my secrets
There was an understanding
That you wouldn’t use them on me
When we took it all apart
A thousand pieces
Behind the couch I thought
We agreed they’re ours to keep
Now you’re in my newsfeed
On my tv loved by millions
Selling it cheap and my heart
Is back on the floor behind the couch
In pieces that scream
You’re the reason
...
Friday 2nd August 2019 3:29 pm
Have you become this
you must’ve been a beautiful child
loved too much held too often
you sensed you possessed something
desired sought after fought for
it must’ve felt like a crime
lording it over the less fortunate
or maybe something inspired
by a religion yet to be written
and here you are now
holding onto the world for your life
climbing between its ha...
Thursday 1st August 2019 2:15 am
Onto the next miscalculation
You lined them up
By height and weight
On paper they’ve cost thousands
Their descriptions sounded professional
Yet now make you cringe
You watch the audience’s expressions
And you adjust your figures
As dreams and memories blur
Your past is constantly changing
Allowing you to produce
an infinite number
Of recently-refurbished...
Wednesday 31st July 2019 5:13 pm
Reaching for you
Reaching for you
I don’t understand my life
why these aches why this job
what’s now
I’m going to make a break
For that unspoiled acreage
You’ve got
Lost in forests, down over hills
Gliding through backwoods
Knee deep in mud
You can visit my city
Clean busses run on time
Got scary parts unsafe at night
But I don’t understand my life...
Tuesday 30th July 2019 5:26 pm
Stronger
I spent my last ten dollars
buying you that drink
figured once we were lovers
I’d come clean
doesn’t always happen this way
you’re holding the high cards now
we know how that changes
when images dissolve
I’m still strong inside
despite this rising tide
I know you and I
could be stronger
your skeptical nature
my creative imm...
Tuesday 30th July 2019 2:13 am
Working on it
Working on it
Daddy I’m still working on it
keeping my
mouth shut
I remember how
I embarrassed us
In front of
the conductor
famous artist
rich people, and your colleagues
how I went on to be fired
from twenty jobs
but I just wanted to you to know
I’m working on it
I'm gathering it up
saying, “I love you” to the people w...
Monday 29th July 2019 2:15 pm
please include
please include a brief biography
with your submission
to color all your meanings in pleasing
shades
so we can draw inferences all over
your face
and make who you are more important
than what you say
sometimes it’s good to be reminded
who we are
and who we are
against
Sunday 28th July 2019 1:58 pm
Unleash the goats
as they rob the bank
drain the pool
cut the power
melt the schools
I’m cool hanging onto myself
as they slit the throats
fill the moats
burn the coats
unleash the goats
I’m good on a deadman float
fight them on the barricades
in the airports and on the plains
using the ammunition
they left us with to play
meet them in the parking l...
Saturday 27th July 2019 5:55 pm
Someone else, somewhere; another time
body and mind
conspire to take you
out of the moment
memories and dreams
mixed into a fine paste
smeared on your face
licking your fingers
during the work break
biting you with the teeth of zippers
which can still almost zip
Friday 26th July 2019 4:29 pm
her parents
we’ve looked at what you’re bringing in
and what you cost
and we can’t escape the conclusion
we’re operating at a loss
all those years of encouraging
I know they’re gone
even if we sued
it wouldn’t add up
we can’t afford you
you don’t earn your keep
you don’t add enough value
for what we give
perhaps in another context
we’d be lucky
but we only have
this one...
Friday 26th July 2019 12:58 am
hunger
once you’ve known
hunger
you’re never
completely sure
you’ll ever
eat again
you can never
be full
with that worry
filling up your brain
worst of all
now you’re eating
all the wrong things
when what you needed
after all
was simply
just being held
Thursday 25th July 2019 1:35 pm
forms of compassion
this last piece of chocolate
could find a home in your mouth
that vacuuming robot
would receive so much love
perhaps a new kitten
would make nights not so lonely
I donated monthly to to the cause
I guess I was born yesterday
he sponsored his whole family
out of a sense of obligation
she insisted on volunteering
on her exotic vacati...
Tuesday 23rd July 2019 6:15 pm
3am Revelation
nothing stays on in the dark
I snore
somehow
we’re still here
I’m starving
you didn’t kill me
maybe you like me
when did I get old
monday’s coming again
bugs control the world
Saturday 20th July 2019 5:19 pm
Dancing Check to Check
twenty left
make the list
eggs bread
spaghetti sauce bananas
take a glance
at the library
and the guitars
nap until
I get notices
from the bank account
cancel all plans
on account
of diarrhea
gotta have that you gotta have this
dancing check to check
will change your life and it’ll ship free
next day air
following steps with representatives
in Manila
my ...
Sunday 14th July 2019 12:05 pm
Civilization Takes Two
you be lightning
I’ll be slime
be single-celled organism
I’ll be time
you be the reptile
I’ll be the worm
I’ll be the feathers
you be the bird
you be the monkey
I’ll be the banana
you be the land bridge
I’ll be Siberia
be Jesus Christ
I’ll be the jews
be Julius Cesar
what’s there to lose
civilization takes two
my ...
Friday 12th July 2019 12:19 pm
My Half-Life
I live in a world of things half-done
it keeps waking me up
on days when I have the energy
I can see what needs to happen
projects, boxes of things,
emails to be written
on days when the world
comes after me, I stay hidden
and dream of knocking it all to the ground
a child crying for forgiveness
Thursday 11th July 2019 10:58 am
Our differences sleep with us
I have no secrets
screens for hands
moments dribble
out of my pockets
clock needles
pierce my skin
your profligacy my silence
sleep side by side on the bed
your movements my stillness
give us reason to reflect
we embrace our differences
in a delicate four-way gesture
Wednesday 10th July 2019 3:03 pm
Broken & Compatible
with time I appreciate differences
signs of life appearing in scratches
does it evoke pity or understanding
deeper I go the more commanding
what I fear becomes a recipe
finished in someone else’s kitchen
what you’ve broken is a challenge
for someone who can fix it
leaning against each other
finding love amidst the hunger
coloring in conve...
Tuesday 9th July 2019 12:30 pm
Before the silence falls
The thing I wanted to know about–
Sent out texts and calls
A desperate stop on the bus
Before the silence falls
The light stays on for an hour
Before the power shuts off
You made a gift of a flower
And a handwritten postcard
I bought three ready made dinners
And cans of soup for lunch
Ready for this summer’s winter
Getting ahead on the wash
And...
Sunday 7th July 2019 11:29 pm
Poverty
Poverty
You’ve only known poverty
You can’t imagine love
In a world of things
You feel you have everything
But you’ve never been touched
Anywhere near your heart
You tell me about all the people
You know
You show me all the places
You go
But you don’t know a thing
It’s almost a tragedy
Saturday 6th July 2019 2:55 pm
Routine
I’m crying now
like you used to do
how strong I felt
next to you
now there’s no one
holding these tears back
that’s how irony
works as planned
I’m crying now
over every little thing
my therapist tells me
It’s helping
now that you’re gone
I’ve been practicing
I’ve been perfecting
all my little routines
Saturday 6th July 2019 1:30 am
my complete lack of technique
are you up for this adventure
do you have somewhere to go
did I mention it’s dangerous
you might fall off a mountain top
you want to be with me
based on our experience
of being together in a small apartment
with mail ordered meals
and I scare you with my attitude
what you take as nonchalance
is a comfort with this world
it’s everyth...
Friday 5th July 2019 12:35 am
Try My Skin
we inhabit different planets
gravities, landscapes, elements
you learn about yourself
when you leave a safe environment
try my skin
be selfish
see through my eyes
you’d be surprised
walk through my heart
don’t step on it
get sucked in
it’s endless
you world is about all the angles
mine is mostly water
when you cut throu...
Thursday 4th July 2019 3:00 am
Unseeing
Unseeing
What have I done to myself
To make these people
Look like monsters
They’d vigorously reject
Any attempt to brand themselves
Less than upstanding
What do I see in their eyes
That reads as horror
That speaks to a lust
For the unimaginable suffering
of a world that will pay
For their childhoods
Tuesday 2nd July 2019 12:02 pm
showroom
my girl wants to do these
crazy things
in public just to imagine
what it feels like it’s not quite
real but I gotta play along
in the neighborhoods where
nobody knows us we act out
whatever she’s thinking of
it gets her hot to imagine
I’ve got a job and we live
on the other side of town
and we decorate our place
with e...
Monday 1st July 2019 11:09 am
I Can’t See My Life
My eyes are on backwards
I just can’t see my life
Until it passes
Then I try to grab it
With hands that never work
That just hold onto wood
As a kid I wanted glasses
I thought they’d make me smart
Now I feel too smart and it hurts
Or I feel too hurt and it smarts
Either one works
As that sadness of my youth returns
Monday 1st July 2019 3:26 am
asking
you ask too much
from your nap
that you will be transformed
and the world will be different
yet there you are with your
faculties intact as if you
could pretend to enthuse
on what’s profoundly stupid
Sunday 30th June 2019 1:05 pm
Oh my filth
Shit on the sidewalk
Streaks like hiragana
Trash for weeks
Natto in your amana
Bachatta on a ten dollar
Bluetooth speaker
Cuts the reggaeton and trap
Like an ambulance siren
Oh my dirty city
I plead the filth
Crying like a child
Denied ice cream
Crying like a satisfied
Blow pop queen
Crunching insect voyeurs
Under the sink
Sweating in my arms
Under the midnight i...
Sunday 30th June 2019 5:39 am
Today's Lab
No matter how many times
We’ve done it
Under what conditions
We’ve run it
Everything is
An experiment
The outcome
Always in question
That we’re alive at all
Is some kind of miracle
How we drive these bodies
Harder than rental cars
Where we stick these moods
Frozen and burnt
Forever tweaking the recipe
Infinitely varied outcomes
Tethered together
On a journey towa...
Saturday 29th June 2019 2:32 pm
Scratched Out
see a lot of people
walking around
with scratched
-out faces
rubbed out with a pen
or a fingertip
they seem to go on with things
with less enthusiasm
not letting themselves
be stopped by relationships
I was one of those people
with scratched out faces
I drew over it
a smile and mustache
For a while
I just ha...
Friday 28th June 2019 11:08 pm
The kids
Your obligation to the child playing
next to you on the bus
He needs to knock you
Just to make sure
You’re not a robot
Plugged into a usb slot
He needs to feel
The heat on your skin
In case things go wrong
And you have to carry him
Out of some explosion
Any look of indignation
Coming from you
Only confirms that
The planet is sufferin...
Friday 28th June 2019 12:32 am
Teaching bad children
Teaching bad children
Guys you have to keep
Your hands out of your pants
And you can’t watch porn
During school hours
And I agree with your
Assessment
Of our colleagues but
I don’t want to undermine them
And please don’t call me after work
They’ll think I’m a child molester
But I do love you it’s just that
I’m supposed to be a cop
Wednesday 26th June 2019 11:48 am
Bodies
Other people’s bodies
I don’t understand them
I want to command them
They become myself then
Turn into a weapon
I crave a distance
Just to feel a resistance
Then I wanna get hit with
The power of a kiss
Tuesday 25th June 2019 11:54 am
The Throb
spending too much
time alone
in 2019 means
feeling face to face
with the stupidity
and greed of others
a dull relentless pain
feeling
electronically chained
to a world bent on
destroying itself
trying to enjoy itself
at the same time
Tuesday 25th June 2019 2:13 am
To the edge of the ledge with a pickle wedge
You take it to the breaking point
You make it sound so innocent
What is it in us that must
Hang out on a ledge
Craving our own destruction
At the hands of someone familiar
What is it that’s so unknown
Within ourselves
Sunday 23rd June 2019 9:22 pm
On rejoining the cult
I was never crazy about the sacrifices
and definitely think she’d go on
a little long during
the Tuesday sermons
but it was the quality of connection
I felt was lacking in my life
you just don’t meet people
of that sort on the outside
of course there’ll be certain things
I’ll miss-
ice cream, situation comedies, condominiums
but I was missing
...Sunday 16th June 2019 10:08 pm
The Pitch
We’re bringing back books
As edgy accessories
Imagine that you’re rich enough
To have the time to read
You’re so wealthy you can afford to
Disconnect while doing it
We’re going to open up
A series of “bookstores”
Designer boutiques
Everything under glass
The catch will be pricing-
The mark-up will only be
500 percent as we’ve noticed
Something funny in our research-
Th...
Sunday 16th June 2019 5:50 am
Ah, yes
Of course I remember
And it’s not the exactly
The opposite
Of loneliness
Other people’s bathrooms
And pulling my arm out
From under your head
For the blood to rush back in
And suddenly much
More of me feels lighter
With just a small
Space opening up
For a new set
Of anxieties
Saturday 15th June 2019 3:40 pm
The fabulist
The fabulist
The fabulist has been
Out of work for generations
His tales have all been broken
Its messages replaced with slogans
His children have found jobs
In marketing
(When he wanted them
To be doctors)
Scientists have cut
Deep into his market
Today he does what he can
To warn them
The truth
Is never enough
Monday 10th June 2019 6:48 pm
Parents
To the people at the next table talking about their adult children
I’d just like you to know
That I’m
Super-successful
I’ve never killed anyone
Based on what my company
Has manufactured
I’ve never ruined anyone’s
Life
Based on my family’s ambitions
I’ve never sent anyone into
Therapy based on
Broken promises
I’ve never left anyone
Questioning the meaning
Of their life...
Friday 7th June 2019 10:17 pm
Today's Meeting
I said that the kids have to
read for pleasure
if you want the writing scores
to improve
somehow that didn’t sit well with
data, targets,
spreadsheets, and minutes
with the group
It was as if I was demanding
that they were fed
chocolate for breakfast
or allowed to play freely
we’re a poor school
and long ago
they cleaned out
all ...
Wednesday 5th June 2019 11:14 pm
Climbing out of a lie
climbing out of a lie
she had to use what she had
which were other lies
smaller ones which fit
in her hands
they could
take her only half way
out of the bigger ones
then she’d have to float
on even bigger ones
to get herself across
to other people
and their gaps
thank god for credit cards
Tuesday 4th June 2019 3:53 pm
E. Rigby’s Granddaughter
very polite to the ticketman
is working at the day spa
visits her mother every Sunday
thinks about getting a small dog
play acts having a boyfriend
treats the apps as a comedy
is as enthusiastic about zumba
as she is about leaving her
job in publishing
always likes their posts
talks to strangers on a train
thinking about novels for children
and taking up meditation
Sunday 2nd June 2019 11:07 pm
Trauma Department
Trauma Department
The doctors scream at the nurses
The nurses take it out on the patients
Blaming them for their illnesses
At night they join together
For a performance
Wherein everyone switches places
And lives with
The outcomes
Of the operation
Wednesday 29th May 2019 12:01 am
I'm more expensive now
The prices have gone up
I’ve had to adjust
There’s less of me now
And it’s more sharp
I run quieter
With a more efficient motor
Backwards compatible
Using less resources
Still got that connectivity
Attached to the evil empire
But there’s a new outlook
Designed for today’s challenging world
Tuesday 28th May 2019 12:51 am
Moving Forward
Moving Forward
I want to enjoy this
please don’t spoil it
don’t wanna know
its ingredients
politics
or ethics
it doesn’t mean
I’m a fascist
it doesn’t make
for a contradiction
I’ll be with you
on the barricades
in a minute
but I’d just like
to finish this chocolate
Monday 27th May 2019 1:15 pm
Ghosts
The ghosts in my life
Take the time to touch me
Then disappear
Changing faces
Changing forms
They’re always there
Saving me from
Darkness
And even worse
If I start
To pursue them
They come only to haunt
Saturday 25th May 2019 12:42 am
interior exile
range of motion
constricted to morning thoughts
sounds of the ocean
beating on distant drums
tracing planes
in the sweep of a brush
thoughts of escape
paused with new promises
Friday 24th May 2019 3:39 pm
San Francisco, circa 1968
The boys ask if I’m a virgin
I tell them “yes” and I’m not lying
As something closes up
When you’re gone and then
I forget what you smell like
And I forget what you touch like
And I feel like Richard Harris
There in the rain
Thursday 23rd May 2019 7:27 pm
Under the new contract
Under the new contract
It’s definitely a new game
with these rifles
they knocked off
my left pinky
but I had enough wet wipes
to stanch things and clean off
the desk before
the next class arrived
Samuels is doing amazing work
from the floor after yesterday’s blast
he simply turned the testing into an art
project-talk about teachable moments
the kids haven’t been the same
s...
Wednesday 22nd May 2019 3:23 pm
The re-election
The re-election
I’ve decided to become a racist
I’ve decided not to care what I do
I’m never going to recycle again
Taking my employer’s side on every issue
I’m cheering on the fascists
Eating endangered species
Buying the largest SUV
With police stickers on the windshield
Just to get along it feels so good
Giving up my humanity
It's such a small price to pay-
What has it ever...
Tuesday 21st May 2019 1:33 pm
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