Matters
Matters
I meet you in various
states of matter
you say it’s of no concern
ethics are for children
as the universe swirls
I build on my experience
I try to make sense of my life
while you throw it up in the air
it makes for pretty designs
perhaps we’re wholly
complementary
maybe there’s no fit at all
just a reaction
some plasma and gas
and then two chocolate gel...
Saturday 27th April 2024 12:44 pm
On it
On it
How can anything
be a love song
with everything going on
how can we think of us
against these flames
in the background
maybe lovers in Vesuvius
thought the same thing
smile and pose for history
we’re in the moment
exactly like this
how can anything be a love song
so that’s what you thought
as I make the world stop
for a moment and you can
put down y...
Thursday 25th April 2024 8:22 pm
Slip Permission
I screwed up
and I got back
to where I swore
I’d never find myself again
amongst the ranks
of fallen men
that familiar smell
of failure I know too well
and you move inches
away from me
seeing less of what you once
saw in me
I’m falling by degrees
you warned me
there are no
guarantees
and how I want to be back
i...
Tuesday 23rd April 2024 9:33 pm
Flipping the Cup
Sometimes I’m a critic
I try not to be a cynic
I’ve been spun by life
too many times that
I’m not always with it
I look for a narrow line
I don’t find it every time
but I often see you there
and I’m so happy
to share the moment
I block out
more than I take in
as the glass remains
almost full
got a lot to work with
I don’t g...
Tuesday 23rd April 2024 3:35 pm
Like Children
like children we reach
for dangerous things
placed just out
of our hands
demanding happiness
from these lives
as if it was a right
to command
we land on our backsides
kings and queens of an empty sky
holding up memories
for a meaning we can’t seem to find
like children we’re
afraid of the night
seeking out warmth
in the curv...
Monday 22nd April 2024 6:08 pm
My fictional past
my past keeps changing
like a snake
striking at targets
changing shapes
just when you think
it meets its fate
it sheds its skin
shaking another tale
of course I’ve been there
and done that
even if I haven’t
dreams and memories
start to blur
what does it matter if I didn’t
there’s no way
to escape this fate
adding layers
soon starts to fail
in the scena...
Saturday 20th April 2024 7:15 pm
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I try to understand the world
I don’t understand the world
I start with a small corner
big enough for myself and a dog
and then I add you
and the corner loses its edges
the confusion turns into
some kind of theatre
and sometimes I return
to that solitude
and add it to yours
and it brings some...
Tuesday 16th April 2024 8:25 pm
Others
you find it again
you don’t know when
the signals sent
to others
a partial match
a release and catch
the night goes on
forever
now you’re tired and sick
while something sticks
that taste of a former
lover
bedpost chewing gum
she was the one
what was lost is now found
in others
Sunday 14th April 2024 12:31 pm
Game of Life
be that for me
I’ll be that for you
doesn’t really matter
if it’s real or true
love is work
the sweetest kind
you still have to bust
ass to be mine
tell me what
I want to hear
I don’t want to know
what you really feel
I’ll tell you what sounds
sweet to your ears
you’ll sleep like a baby
feel the night disappear
don’t come at me
with the look of a child
y...
Sunday 7th April 2024 1:06 pm
Gimme the Unusual
Gimme the unusual
I’ll take a drop of the tropical
pinch of the atonal
stirred with a time signature
that remains unknowable
gimme a shot of the unusual
send it over quick
I’ve had enough of the banal
to last me many years
One more narrative
without a thread
several cut up
fifties experiments
a whole tale dictated
by a pink monkey ...
Monday 1st April 2024 11:17 pm
Dunning Kruger vs Myers Briggs
Dunning Kruger vs Myers Briggs
you don’t know you’re
into it until you’re there
then you don’t even look
for a way out
you’re just enjoying yourself
too much
in that civilization built
for two; no one moves
we just kick the tires
and scratch the paint
and are surprised
or disappointed
to find we can only live
one life at a t...
Sunday 31st March 2024 5:23 pm
Lovely Problems
I love my problems
I made them myself
one day I’ll solve them
I grow them instead
my bank is on fire
my love is dead
piles of books teeter
only jelly in the fridge
I’ve got these problems
they occupy my thoughts
I should be thankful
for their hours of drama
I see them in dreams
with faces of dead lovers
I ask them how they’ve been
they tell me I know all about it
Monday 18th March 2024 3:29 pm
Be-Monked
Be Monked
there is no one to see
there is nowhere to go
dinner costs $300
you could just eat the rope
the conversation
can’t change your mind
the young people
dress like their phones
the world spins
outside
killing and eating all
fears and hopes
take your vows alone
with the pillow
those dreams keep you inside
interrupted by work
Sunday 17th March 2024 8:05 pm
I feel seen
I feel seen
you know what I mean
you see it in yourself
and then you feel it in others
don’t pretend
you haven’t been there
and done that
that’s othering
when you put
someone
outside of what
you could have felt
you mine the situation
you bring up revelations
and you let in flow back
into your self-awareness
and that’s how we grow ...
Sunday 17th March 2024 1:59 pm
How to be Kind
it’s understood you won’t get
everything you ever wanted
it’s true you’re still the flower
of someone’s eye
there’s maybe room for life
to grant you more wishes
you don’t have to feel
so haunted while alive
when you see yourself
in someone else
when you find something
to agree upon
when you ask
for a little help
in the face of
a new situation
feel a crack in ...
Thursday 14th March 2024 11:52 pm
The Women
The Women
what do they want from me
what do I need from them
are we really the same specie
we seem stupid in comparison
I want to live in a world of women
it would be kinder and fairer
at the least more beautiful
I could drown myself there
that would be worth
fighting for
Monday 11th March 2024 9:53 pm
Slayer
My apology is my
greatest weapon
like hellfire down
from heaven
just when you think
I’ll escalate
I’m on my knees
or prostrate
genuflecting
to the goddess
Desdemona
how “sorry” works miracles
how “my fault” cures cancers
how tears find their victims
in the heart of these skirmishes
and it ends with the warmth of love
it all makes everything
back itself up
...
Sunday 10th March 2024 6:29 pm
Typing Pool
days of nothing
then work comes
all at once you get busy
the speed is dizzy
you’ve got another minute
to get it down
without thinking
that’d be messy
everyone’s cool
in the typing pool
they ain’t replaced
with a machine yet
maybe it’ll happen
then things would end
but as long as inspiration’s there
you’ll have a chair
and you’ll slave
for that muse
beaut...
Tuesday 5th March 2024 12:38 pm
Good Mourning
We find ourselves
in others it cuts in half the pain
to discover what was lost
can be found again
that easy laugh
the shared decades
we understand to have gotten
this far demands a certain grace
how easily the sun rises
how the muscle memory responds
how the aches taped to memories
finds a place to sit down
it not given lightly
it’s a miracle to be around
to fight t...
Tuesday 5th March 2024 11:25 am
General Obvious
General Obvious
Poetry won’t feed the hungry
Songs won’t stop the war
That painting’s doing nothing
to combat global warmth
but in between the barricades
I might steal a kiss
just to remember what
we’re fighting for, General Obvious
I used to think everybody
had rich interior lives
that art was an aristocracy
in which everyone could fantasize
now that I’ve been in ...
Friday 1st March 2024 4:16 pm
Throbs
everything’s connected
everything pulses
glowing on
frequencies lost to us
sometimes someone
pulls in our vibration
and then life feels
like a song
dark’s punctured
dirty streets shine
dull and monotonous
are transformed
it just takes you
and a little smile
where it goes
we don’t have to know
Friday 1st March 2024 2:32 pm
Midnight Buys Me
Could somebody stop me
before it’s too late
would you walk with me
to my fate
I’ve been drop-shipped
too much of late
I’d just like to face
what I’m dealing with
I’ve tapped out
everyone I know
I don’t blame you
treating me as a ghost
got one last chance
to get it under control
before I’ve spent
the whole rent on my soul
...Sunday 25th February 2024 3:53 pm
Stoned in the park
Stoned in the Park
there’s nothing more to do
than put sun
on our face
on this beautiful day
as the world slowly turns
I didn’t turn
on the news
or even get dressed
I call out sick from work
close your computer
we meet at the park
saluting the commuters
you brought something
to cheer me up
and I’ve got
something for y...
Friday 23rd February 2024 7:05 pm
Prices
Prices
If you’re lucky
you hit the three-sixty
full tour back
from where you came
many only get
one-eighty regretful bitter dies
their name
some only do
two-twenty
turning it around
a little too late
with you
I’m a constant ninety forever
wagging my tail
every day with you
is no gamble
playing that
numbers game
Sunday 18th February 2024 5:02 pm
The New Thing
You gave it to me
now I got it
and I spread it
and I could be impatient zero
I could be a villain
or hero
depends entirely
on how you see it
the new thing
changes us
and we can’t
go back
we can’t pretend
tomorrow won’t be different
we just have to adjust and
take notes from the young
Wednesday 14th February 2024 12:37 am
In the dark
In the dark
our eyes adjust
the light’s gone out
the spark’s just a part
of our imagination
with this black
we stand out
what was taken as fact
has become a doubt
and we hold ourselves
as if we were someone else
as if we could tell
what the point of this was
we practice an end
again and again
doesn’t lessen the shock
...Saturday 10th February 2024 12:28 pm
Potential
Always keep some potential
ahead of you
you never know
when you might run out
I’ve known too many people
who’ve peaked at thirteen
that’s a long skidmark
I start over every morning
sometimes I don’t start
jumpstarted by a key
attached to an alarm clock
I nibble on that potential
in moments on the job
that stare often takes me
unaware lost for hours
I’d suck on your potential
...
Sunday 4th February 2024 7:15 pm
Me and My God
me and my god
go out for a walk
sometimes she’s silent
sometimes she talks too much
about the state of the world
her favorite perfume
and anything else that
crosses the block
if I can get a word in
I sometimes ask for
small favors
whether I deserve them or not
my god likes to test my faith
she hides my keys
sends me idiots
on Mondays
to teach me patience
t...
Saturday 27th January 2024 3:28 pm
Woodies
I’ve clicked and travelled on vacation
shopped and gambled on location
become unraveled with the notion
this world was made for you and me
from politicians to corporate interests
from religions to tribal kingdoms
to wholesale slaughter of the innocent
this world was made for you and me
As I was talking in line at Staples
people in front of me ...
Sunday 21st January 2024 2:33 pm
The Blood of Poets
life happens slowly
then quickly
in the eye
of a hurricane
everything is silent
and still
on the outside
destruction rages
things change
we recover
we rediscover
ourselves
we’re overtaken
slowly but surely
by the ghost of
everything else
You saved my life
without you
I would’ve died
a long lonely d...
Thursday 18th January 2024 12:39 am
Truth
truth that ole butter knife
just might save your life
why bother with lies
you can’t remember
oh yeah money that’s why
everyone needs survival
but I don’t think you’re gonna starve
not with that body
truth yeah you cultivate that honesty
and you can’t keep a job with it
or a relationship
but you can live with yourself
and make the polit...
Sunday 14th January 2024 2:40 pm
Not even ourselves
We make the bed
like we believe in tomorrow
like we’ll get there together
with some anticipation and follow
that long hard day
with a celebration in flesh
not wasting a drop
of this moisture and dust
known as ourselves
we make the bed
with the neighbors watching
the cats inspired
and your thirty pounds of laundry
knowing nothing comes
for free
not even
ourselv...
Saturday 13th January 2024 11:57 am
Send More Tomorrow Now
I don’t want to dwell on
disappointments,
regrets, and fears
I’ve had enough
cruelty and greed
to last me years
if you could make
a dream come true
I’ve just one simple request
perhaps we could
make that wish
or send several prayers
send tomorrow here
I want to believe
the scientists,
mystics, and my mom
that tomorrow
will be brighter
and my problems...
Sunday 7th January 2024 1:27 pm
The new un-natural
It’s not just the depressed teen
grandmother in the home
dog on a leash
representative on the phone
everyone feels alone
from the closed bars
to the richest man in the world
from the visitors on mars
to your new crush as a girl
no one has a clue
and fewer still know to ask
some are too proud
and the rest too ashamed
to let it crack aloud
to do something sane
ever...
Tuesday 2nd January 2024 1:13 am
Dreams are Documentaries
Dreams are documentaries
I dreamt you were old and lonely
you paid me to come over
to give you courses on something
I dreamt that I felt sorry for you
doing it strictly for the money
feeling a certain contempt
coming over from the next town
taking a golf cart on the expressway
feeling dread about your intentions
I woke up realizing that the ...
Monday 1st January 2024 3:10 pm
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