Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Slow Grand

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It’s gotten hard, facing old memories Discerning fading dreams from what was left deserted. We’re older now, trading worn sympathies For ...
Monday, December 4, 2017

The Hill

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These words always find a way to you The way this morning brushes between the threads of your thin curtains The way the city groans as it ...
Saturday, August 12, 2017

Consume

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Each and every uncovered, speckled swatch That splayed across my glassy eyes In a coat of fresh Krylon, Dripping in mischief as I delinqu...
Sunday, July 9, 2017

)|

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Coincidence. Fate for the faithless, faced with the fear of committing to luck Or whatever it was that struck my heels. It stood me still...
Saturday, April 8, 2017

Opposing Locomotives

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So, how exactly did you find yourself Spread so thin and folded along the center Divided somewhere in between your god and his country, Y...
Sunday, January 22, 2017

March First, with Hands, and Heart

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Hey, hi, hello. Not tonight, but later,  As I'm sure you know. I wondered how the couch got so small And how your harmonies sunk...
Monday, January 9, 2017

Handwritten

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It was a Monday, The salted, cracked roads blurred into a cotton dry sky. We waited for snow, And worked until the storm's gaunt fing...
Tuesday, January 3, 2017

La La Land

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On her pretense, We shared a green bottle of white wine As we drowned our innocence in misplaced courage. And the dull orange glow of you...
Tuesday, December 20, 2016

A Whale Is Just A Big Fish

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Tea tipped into bourbon and spilled into the early morning Screaming with everyone, Singing to no one. I stacked these cups high In hope...
Thursday, December 15, 2016

Early Decision

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A flash... You saw the signs before it began, And neglected the fragility of man; You couldn't make a lower case With so many check...
Thursday, December 1, 2016

Checking In

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I hugged you in a dream last night. You picked me up and pressed me against your lungs. I could feel you breathing. Maybe because I was h...
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Fire Fader

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Writing in cursive, I'm stringing up these curses; If this had been the first time, we might have revised, But it was a dark car parke...
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Fineshrine Hands

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And so I gestured towards the soft contours of your crumbling wall, Into which you fell like the dust settled under your unmade bed. It cr...
Friday, October 2, 2015

Mesa

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Your gravity bomb teetered on the soft edge of my bed, Shitty beer stuck to sifting thoughts Bought forward on the pretense of penance. T...
Monday, September 28, 2015

Luna Supine

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Countless couches, I swirl my drink, And painted in these black eyes Dreams of countless divisions. It spins before it pulls apart, but ...
Thursday, September 17, 2015

Come Down

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Threes split with intentions laid out for a few. Assist, I run towards a lighthouse with frosted glass. Misunderstandings of what to striv...
Sunday, August 2, 2015

SYC

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And as the sun crept through the back door, Nipping at our bare feet, A distant thunder came soon thereafter, To which you were his echo ...
Monday, July 13, 2015

DC

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Writing to pass the time To let every mimed moment pass by, Silently mine, Writing on quarters to make change, But this would never chan...
Monday, July 6, 2015

Divergence

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Silent night. Mouth cotton dry. A tinge of rust makes up this blood red sky, Gunpowder suspended from the bets we'd made on parallel l...
Tuesday, May 5, 2015

To Waste In Michigan, 2003

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Some nascent clarity had once pulled me under this same dull light. It seems darker now, but it was stronger, Resilient as it drew away fr...
Monday, February 16, 2015

When Juno Came By...

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When it rains, it pours And I'm making correlations to the precipitation, Comparing present negatives with the proof of that day. Whi...
Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Expecting Sparks

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This is learning the touch of your own malleable skin, Pressing against your chest and feeling it sink in As your head rests against a war...
Monday, December 15, 2014

1:06

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It's the worst battles you come to fight on your own. The ones that matter. Here I wage on this losing bet, Waiting for the seconds t...
Sunday, December 14, 2014

An Iron Whisper

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A silent smile cast late into the evening As expected as the tide but compelling just as much. You were welcomed with dull moonlight, And...
Monday, November 24, 2014

Between Six and Eleven (Nickel on Tails)

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This was the first time... Thirty minutes on the dot, The last of an ellipsis that spanned a single twirl So delightfully careless and bl...
Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Keep The Fire Burning, Forgetting It’s There

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You told us it was basic Concealed in obvious identities, The monotonic melodies that Called back those faces. You faced me. You thanked me....
Saturday, July 12, 2014

Tiles

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The ringleader spoke loudly, but walked without shoes, Over glasses and tiles and red-white-and-blues Every sentence illformed, but every ...
Monday, June 2, 2014

Sometimes

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And as the words met with shoulders and fingers to touch, A meaningless movement was moving too much With none to gain, and turned to Ligh...
Saturday, July 6, 2013

Letting off the Steep Steps (35 and Pedro)

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You'll find one in every state: The gentle rustle as you graze over each one, Calmly unsettling. Like the caricature undone Traced a...
Sunday, June 16, 2013

Preamble to the Unable

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Orange embers remain, Present past to this day. If I could only remember A single word that you said-- Sunshine. You were that one...
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Monday, February 25, 2013

The Feeling of Being Saved

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Red wine stained your teeth So often never seen at this time of night, As every thought rested atop your heard And buried into your ches...
Friday, February 8, 2013

Snowblind

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You were a wish fulfilled that I still tried to redeem. My heart was pressed against the glass, Arrested by flashing lights and frozen gro...
Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Letting Go A Bird In Hand

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It took 6,000 lies for a tinny truth, Then covered in silk and understood. And my lips bent a crease in those words you wrote That simila...
Friday, February 1, 2013

What We Were Here For

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It takes two to five minutes to make my presence known. It takes a floor of five cynics to make us all feel old When a lighted touch illum...
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Thursday, November 22, 2012

A Year's Pass

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A year's pass and the colors sink into the carpet, What has absolutely floored me adorns the burnt display of a broken past A magic a...
Thursday, May 10, 2012

Day 120: Black Shiners

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Reheated and as stale as the day before That pre-summer heat was closing the distance between Your breaths and the floor My best and what...
Sunday, May 6, 2012

Day 116: Quesafajitadillas

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Wake up for another normal breakfast My favorite kind of normal That I pretend you always hate in jest And prebend these rubber plates im...
Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Day 105: 5F-214N

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Listening through your part of what I could not title When everything was best replaced with your name, The beaded rain pressed up against...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Day 104: Jeff vs. Orpheus

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An old wooden chair with red velvet upholstery Whose dust shone like stars freshly fallen Its creaks were not picked up by vibrating magne...
Monday, April 23, 2012

Day 103: Rinse Obsession

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Fear is a waterfall made of Gravity and water tension, Lethargy and our best intentions That slipped on the bank And cracked its soft sk...
Friday, April 20, 2012

Day 100: Spoke Too Soon

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Air pushed through a plastic tube, Hot and weak like fresh smoke. It spoke to spores that had seen a war But were now getting caught i...
Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Day 56: Love and Porn in Culver City

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Cold, but when pressed against the wall Or pulled apart It warms only to a sting. The loneliest sing, a monologue Of short gasps of ...
Monday, March 5, 2012

Day 54: Fixity

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We were on your front lawn Where red dust stuck on blue paint That flew through an open window, Once broken by the babbles of a brook....
Sunday, March 4, 2012

Day 53: Counting the Joker

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Here is one more ephemeral blow, Raps upon a door locked from the inside. It peels the glue from my skin; I hope it helps me see my tr...
Sunday, February 19, 2012

Day 40: Stage Table Dinner

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Parked in front of a memory Words spoken through a light box To the headlights in the review. The door pushes through the cold Clamo...

Day 39: Who Protects The Sleeping Whom

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"7:30 wakeup call in sick again," sings the alarm bell The heater rings, made home the most pleasant hell. So I took my coffee...
Saturday, February 18, 2012

Day 38: Under the Knife

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A day spent in bed, but never home When a doorbell rings and the floorboards sing Under the weight of a new man. He reflects in the gl...
Saturday, February 11, 2012

Day 31: T2, C1

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Chemo and nothing. So hungry.
Thursday, February 9, 2012

Day 29: Family Adhesive

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How long I've stared at empty sea and stars I'm getting friends back through Skype Reading of my risks a different heartbeat eve...
Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Day 28: Where Airplanes Go

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I stepped into a cold car speaking yesterdays That fogged the skyline through a dirty windshield. With a suitcase in the back and a book...
Sunday, February 5, 2012

Day 25: Talkative Bunch

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The closest to normal I have felt in a very long time I know there are more to come But I am okay with this one Let me return that ema...
Saturday, February 4, 2012

Day 24: Ebb and Flow

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An ounce of liquor spilled on the black keys. It soaked through sick veins But you spent all day in bed, And we watched our remaining...
Thursday, February 2, 2012

Day 23: Sad City Bouquet

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To sleep through the morning And wake up again. Gray becomes a softer black Maybe I loved this city all along, So I gave my thanks i...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Day Six: Banks and Bets

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Appointments with needles and staying still I prepare my life to change Putting the children to bed In a luxurious bathtub of ice In...
Sunday, January 15, 2012

Day Four: Places On Earth

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Kelly and Cola. Hanging out by the fire Freezing in the cold, Drinking cream soda to save my blood. Designated driver for a loved fr...
Thursday, January 12, 2012

Day Two: Breaking In

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Before the morning sun could find my half-shut eyes, Skin stained sheets from the purpose of existence That stuck with me like viruses. ...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Day One: The Unknown Becomes Known

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And even a city of angels couldn't protect me As I sat on a denim-stained pleather couch In a third floor apartment I called high wa...
Thursday, December 22, 2011

CardAgain

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So here I am waiting Mirror ghosts at my throat Maybe it's just getting worse When signed in blood on paper I will tell you I wa...
Sunday, December 18, 2011

Lymph Nodes

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Let's stay alive, I don't want it to be hard to say, "forever."
Sunday, October 30, 2011

Birds Fly South, Then West

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I didn't want to sleep it off Leave it untouched like a wax museum Salty shovels have dug the weekend's grave Your path away. ...
Sunday, September 25, 2011

Hung Up and Over

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I'm just a drunk kid, Lying in the memories of last night and this morning
Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Endless West

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The wind sweeps the clouds back out to sea Day spent weeping saltless years, They were done for the night Towers wrote letter...
Sunday, September 18, 2011

The Notes On Which We End

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To see you again For the last time.
Thursday, September 15, 2011

Springfield 709

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Digging my own grave With my head over my shoulder And paranoia behind my back. Streetlights shine like stars through broken trees ...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Mutual Friends

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So blind to my own mirror, Letting the fearless become the fearers.
Sunday, September 11, 2011

Wearing Skulls

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Sitting outside of a concrete home, The wolf was around. Leftover rain when the trees made a sound.
Friday, September 9, 2011

Burning the Midnight Hour

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I am an envious wreck, Look at the passenger mirror That shattered before I could check, Friends taken fresh parts of my reflection ...
Sunday, September 4, 2011

Last Call

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I am walking on this water, Right on sea level. Boat shoes sunk in the water And eyes sunk into insobriety. Even ounces and two twenti...
Saturday, September 3, 2011

Meet Me In Quincy Market

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On a wooden bench that supported us like a blessing, We were tying tenacious knots with our fingers Vows that pressed the snooze for ju...
Friday, September 2, 2011

Close-r

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The open door was a spectrum of emotion She left as softly as a dream hands you back to your bed.
Friday, August 26, 2011

Stacking Pennies

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Tinny truth on a wood table Echoes Spill-proof mattresses, TP and tears.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

I Fell In Love With A City

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Waiting for service, Always waiting.
Monday, August 15, 2011

PM for AM

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I woke up in ubiquitous shade, Every color cooled off with a blanket of gray. I started saying your name like I was colorblind And br...
Thursday, August 11, 2011

Get Out The Jack, Love

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Hope is home, I hope I'll be home.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Blink in the Rain

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Windshield smearers in torrential downpour Honestly afraid for our lives Half-naked writing lude things in the condensation IHOP, enco...
Monday, August 8, 2011

Clairity

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Your shadowing perspective was a familiar mountain. I could see for miles and miles So much value put together in the form of The del...
Saturday, August 6, 2011

Young's Four

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Prison bars held my cradling comfort, With more history than we'll ever see You asked me like a cheater, "What number are you...

Our Own Motto

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Business women clamor over vacant space, Venture capitalists staring straight into your eyes. The bells ring of hollower glass, Toast...
Thursday, August 4, 2011

Exactly

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Smoothing the surfaces, I am sanding with silk The most delicate predicate-noun, Unregrettably now. It is the coldest summer day, ...
Tuesday, August 2, 2011

The Adventures of Swag and Calzone

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Throw up your words shoved up From your proud, proud chest.
Monday, August 1, 2011

Homeland Security

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The shame of weakness, Knowing you weren't invincible A helmet won't prevent a skinned knee.
Sunday, July 31, 2011

Education

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Ink bull diminishing iterations on a sheet of paper
Thursday, July 28, 2011

Bilingual Sleep Talking

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A speaking finger returned a thicker collar "I've always liked you, since the beginning"
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Set Yourself Up

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The institution is a monster, I've seen it tear people apart. Steel strangles my speaking finger While they both watch with bated ...
Tuesday, July 26, 2011

The Sharp Edges of a Question

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Do you ever think about entering my body Like a cancer or something plotting against you Let me save or let me sink How we speak but nev...
Monday, July 25, 2011

Stars In and Out of Focus

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Morning struck through the window As silent as my first breath, Slowly burning of last night's fire. Only embers from blown glass...
Thursday, July 21, 2011

Coxswain Shots and the Midnight Progression

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You're off to work, but I think I'll stay in bed.
Saturday, July 16, 2011

Montauk

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It calmed me to finally see The salt you breathed while you were underneath.
Friday, July 15, 2011

Scab

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The way the sirens echo off of the flush buildings. We are rats in a maze, A flightless bird that will glide and then lie. Who are you fo...
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

A Minute of Rain

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Your barriers are retractable tape And audio recordings, press 1 for English. Fundamental misunderstandings, Invisible like the chipp...
Sunday, July 10, 2011

Attraction Without Films

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Attraction without films Becomes awkward honest, worn-out true. A thousand breaths before a point Puncture words like sharpened joint...
Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Irresistable

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Ice water 3hr sleep
Monday, July 4, 2011

Fireworks from the Inside

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The heart breaking down Sounds, but no lights Looking through a dirty window It's clear that no one is here. I am carving hollow...
Saturday, July 2, 2011

Statistical Outlier

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"Except I would be with you and thats right."
Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Waiting for the Green Light

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Not waiting, but looking We find it, it's working.
Monday, June 27, 2011

60 Days

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Genuine happiness revoked. Sixty days counted down and lost in an instant. The minute you're closer is the second I'm distant....
Sunday, June 26, 2011

In Less Than A Week

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And they left you before they even asked Alone again You know again
Thursday, June 23, 2011

The River Is An Ocean

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I am running in the rain
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Finite State Machine

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From pitched ideas, underhand. It's not code if they all understand.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Old People Thursday

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Drinking all the beverages Smooching all the ladies
Saturday, June 11, 2011

Money under the Mattress

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With only a dime in my pocket, I wasn't much about counting on change. Last night in my bed, a ghost The tangents of this paral...
Friday, June 10, 2011

4867 Sunset: Holding

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Now that old car rolls down a dirt road. It is unfamiliar and unknown It is a windshield point toward the front of a storm. Now the sounds j...

That Lump In Your Throat

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An old car stops at the end of the line, Blindsided by the force of inescapable time: Chance, The difference between a glance and a blow. Th...
Thursday, June 9, 2011

10.8

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Some things happen without warning, The way it all falls apart In figures and in literals, But when it came it fissured visceral. 10.8 rattl...
Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Thinktanks In A Mindless War

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And as we sit on this padded couch I find myself in a padded room To bounce ideas off of. Crazy ideas that I throw and catch like childhood ...
Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Smoke Them Out from Under the Bridge

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So I figured I'd just jump here, I'm down the my last two in my pocket And I'm not banking on them... Instead I took a step back...
Monday, June 6, 2011

The Distance

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Backdropped by infinity, Out here we made ourselves divinity. This world has settled to a controlled burn And now we write our names in ligh...
Sunday, June 5, 2011

Revisit

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Floorboard creaks were footprints in wet sand, Eroded but still familiar These awkward steps are so dissimilar. One foot drags another throu...
Saturday, June 4, 2011

Zero

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We watch steel fight against gravity. I watch skin fight against vanity; Let your sweater slide from your shoulders, Let the heat escape lik...
Thursday, June 2, 2011

History's Repeating

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Dear sophomore, Hunger makes the hunter more aggressive. History makes the mystery more impressive, So I make these words more digressive As...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Flying at Sea Level

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You're boarding onto a sinking ship, The sea is tugging at your socks. Between gasps and grasps, your heart is calm; Thanks for investin...

Among Adults with Children

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A square foot blanket sits on my lap, Barely enough to keep me warm While I'm trying to keep my cool, Shivering like a small dog afraid ...
Sunday, May 29, 2011

Splintered Wood

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Start this right. When no one expects it, Just let it collide. I spend half the day wondering where you came from And the other half ...
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Saturday, May 28, 2011

West Coast West Ghost

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As a sun presses its yolk on the pacific pan, The silhouetted hills roll into the haze From tar melting and cars belting their age. The conv...
Friday, May 27, 2011

Signs

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Eastbound concrete from god-knows-where, A tangle of freeways, a tangle of golden hair From birth in a city intended for angels Where I saw ...

Come Here (Banned)

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This is grade school debauchery, I took my dirty laundry to your place. The dryer sounded like a jet engine As my mind counted paper boxes, ...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Wearing Out My Sleeve

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I still didn't know any better After months of retracing ghost lines, Black wires that went through blacked out towns To deliver a black...
Monday, May 23, 2011

The Arc of Light

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Here we go, gears start low, We're just warming up the engine. My hands were still clammy from excitement, Extradited to the home I left...
Saturday, May 21, 2011

MeCa

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It was the morning after the war, After fighting the night with our lighters I laid my aching head atop of a smoke-filled jacket. Though the...
Friday, May 20, 2011

If the World Doesn't End Tomorrow

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Sometimes it feels like The world accelerates like the dashed white ghosts That we lose in our blind spots. I just wanted to see this thr...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

Final Descent

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Loud packing tape unraveled from the spool The room was hollowed out like a jack-o'-lantern, Down to single candle in a tower fading out...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Memorial

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There were once bodies standing Where they now sit. The building echoes because Those voices weren't the first ones Those choices weren...

from 15 to 1

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Sleepy trees on the battlefield, Soldiers rest in their cots. The drum line's roll is dreary And the armories are only in theory When yo...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011

4s+2c+1s

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I grabbed at the sheets, I swelled and then sneezed a scattered plot Distracted thoughts put to rest As consciousness reached its limit, A p...
Monday, May 16, 2011

Deserve This!

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I can't. Teach these lips how to shape my demands Release these fists from about my hands, Knuckles white like ghosts of those once will...
Sunday, May 15, 2011

Minor Piner

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When I fell I did not make a sound Bows cocked like a lost sneeze, A poetic tragedy, snapped to my knees. When life flashed it stuck to my i...
Saturday, May 14, 2011

Don't Call It A Comeback

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There are dogs out in the backyard They've been barking at the gates, Chain-linked like it all made sense Selling lemonade and chipping ...
Friday, May 13, 2011

Punching For Studs

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Under weak legs, this concrete floor felt like a bounce house In which a devilish child broke every jump and I sunk to my knees. And from gi...
Wednesday, May 11, 2011

That Huge Nostalgia Kick

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The sun was on fire again, lit up everything around it. We put it out with squinted salutes and fitted caps, Salty beaches and shaded palm t...
Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Last One

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I fed off of your secrets like apples left in Eden Whose ovaries carried bitter babies That would be cradled in the ground. Carbon copies of...

Making Decisions To Make

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Goodnights are softer than everything else, The pillow that rests under your head Melting faster than the falling shelves. Instead I count o...
Monday, May 9, 2011

Drink To...

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As she fell I studied the conical geometry, Its axial symmetry that could spin the world around And everything would be the same. You've...
Sunday, May 8, 2011

Curseive

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Originality took the form of faded pastels And the sun stepped out of the room. At ease, the air finally shuffled around As the hotheaded st...
Saturday, May 7, 2011

No Reply

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We send our voices in every direction And then wait impatiently for a grumble, China made plastic dancing On an American made table, With so...
Friday, May 6, 2011

Sleepless Perspective, Peace-Seeking Detective

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I must have fallen asleep on a mirror, The sun is shining from all the wrong places... I've got all the clues, but there are no traces. ...
Wednesday, May 4, 2011

The Rising Tide

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The horizon was anxious in a rising tide, The foreseeable future had met with present light. They left in the dark like a secret being made ...

No Thrice Magic

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The sirens called you out in fear of heat, Diaspora for the light your needs devoured, To fall asleep alone, Regretting every conscious hour...
Tuesday, May 3, 2011

You're Going Slow

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One foot drags past another, I pull myself through water That won't give back my reflection. I never had an indication To the turbulent ...
Monday, May 2, 2011

Play To Your Strengths

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His muscles flexed like a failed rock climber, Tense ropes that strained in unison. It was a camaraderie he was conditioned to love That spi...
Sunday, May 1, 2011

Another Bed

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As the lights stripped and unbuttoned darkness, My throat tried up in the honest heat As lies were pumped into the atmosphere, The way they ...
Saturday, April 30, 2011

Nothing New

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Bring sweet death to the choir! If you've got ammo, then fire!
Friday, April 29, 2011

Fluid Dreaming

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Run away like a runny nose, It's all run down and too cold. They said it runs in the family But I ran the numbers, Insufficient funds. I...
Thursday, April 28, 2011

Apologpa

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Some take a swing to feel the wind (that you missed), Others to jump off at their highest point, And I call them all crazy. I can't even...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Mixy

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As the plastic spins in symmetry, I attempt to bring you near to me With words as reused as the alphabet. A, B, C, D, I took the E and got a...
Monday, April 25, 2011

Landlocked by the Water

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I slip under my sheets while I'm dripping in sleep, 350-count threads that crash over me There are voices I hear before and after I fal...
Sunday, April 24, 2011

Electron Decay

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Spiraling forth on these rings of delay I keep losing count of 365 days. There is no anniversary There is no where we used to be, Moving for...

Lying In An Open Field

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All bets are off when the cards fall And you find yourself knocked out, Lying in the bed of a '52 pickup. Some things were never meant t...
Saturday, April 23, 2011

In the Green Monster

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I was in the heart of a city in its evacuated state, Muscles all clenched as it stood stone cold in the night. It was absent of the ambient ...
Friday, April 22, 2011

Reignite

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Your probabilistic procession was a cameo in indirect light Mismatched pins we rebent and stuck me down quite alright, And in all of your fr...
Thursday, April 21, 2011

Sequilizer

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Your prose clipped as they pushed in the red It shut you up nice, with a nail on the head You were dead silent. Then all of those questions ...
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Proballistics

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You may be able to guess, this is the boiling point. Your veins are like coils in your buckling joints And your spring-loaded heart full of ...

Your Laws

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Hurl me towards your honesty Project your heart on top of me. The weight of history is heavy, It makes it harder to push for change. It'...
Sunday, April 17, 2011

Under Revolving Stars

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A muscle spasm grabbed my side In a camaraderie I thought had long expired. As sweet as milk, it hadn't curdled And I found myself in th...

4 After 4

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I've been drinking from the strangest fountains You've been making sure this will actually happen As I try to reach for memories lik...
Saturday, April 16, 2011

Triangle Sentences

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I lost what I was going to say after In the wind on the breath I had written it on. Your favorite song went 5-1 That you tapped between your...
Friday, April 15, 2011

...and then there was one!

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The spinning earth smeared cool pastels On the blank canvas of a new day. It wasn't the way we were meant to see it, Like how your paren...
Thursday, April 14, 2011

The Best of a Normal Day

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I never believe the words on the edge of a disk, There is too much truth and with it, too much risk. Look for me in old pages, hardcopied an...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Plate Tectonics, To Break the Spine

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So give me those papercuts, I lost the words the day before But the ink sunk into the creases, Once defined in imperfections Forever summed ...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

The Hidden Perspective

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Looking at the world through glass and water, The light was misrepresented, but I called it an answer. She whispered you her beliefs like ru...
Monday, April 11, 2011

Digital Candlelight

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Enough pictures could make a movie in the sound of silence, Some comforting nostalgia before you emerged in your defiance. He said, "He...

Cover Ups and Letters

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Caught mid-swing, I struck out of the loop. The dots in my eyes and the curls in the cue Told me we had been here way too long. There was on...
Sunday, April 10, 2011

Sharp Victory

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My voices was afraid of the angelic heights When you wanted to play the whiter keys. I said you'd have to believe in a quieter me, But m...
Friday, April 8, 2011

If this city doesn't love me

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I searched for the spare key under a sun-bleached welcome mat, Papercut from that which emerged from a slim envelope That was slipped from u...

Approximate Midnight Bomb

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I could taste the fever under my tongue That burned each sentence to death, You walked over them precisely, I lacked an inner ear understand...
Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Senses Soft

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I faded in about a quarter past nine When tension strung the curtains back, The redless black of the opening act. Your retracted statement w...

It's Sowing Season!

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Turn back to a slack rope, See the oars dragging in the water, The crewman leaned against the wall, Mopheads standing in their buckets... Yo...
Monday, April 4, 2011

Mutual Gatsby

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I just wish I could repeat it like a favorite song. I slept last night listening to nothing but sights Like it was going put me somewhere I ...

...for the Classifieds

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From one job to the next I manage to keep myself impressed, Every week there is a different number on the check. Climb a ladder towards the ...
Saturday, April 2, 2011

R&A (BYK)

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Take notes: We are digital ghosts on separate coasts And we talk to each other in prime numbers: If you take a remainder and divide it throu...
Friday, April 1, 2011

Devil In A Confirmation Dress

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I judged you like it was the second time, You trusted me like it was rightfully mine. Yellow bird, yellow bird, Why do you sing when you are...

Missing Hands

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Under house arrest we are chained to conscious birth, The primal intent that makes us shoot first, And answer questions later. We ponder the...
Thursday, March 31, 2011

From The Ivy Vines

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The most uncertain war is the one we don't fight. We send our lives in scores and letters, Extracurriculars and jobs at night. Hope come...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Candle Clock Bravery

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Do you remember the words I slipped under the dinner table? It was our communion that stained an old union sacrilegiously. You were so unfam...
Monday, March 28, 2011

Quick and Heavy Swing

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Your heels rolled on the marble like when you were a kid Against the feeling of hard facts at face value That baited your every breath. This...

BuPo

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A week's worth of experiments Harbored the greatest compound of my existence, You broke it down to the barest elements And it built y...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

Loose Change Poet

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I got closer to my baiter, And I marched through the turnstiles Towards the arteries buried under the city's skin. Within we could eithe...
Friday, March 25, 2011

Now There Are Edges To Slip Off Of

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They purposefully left us behind So we could pass the time like pages in the wind, Like some summer reminiscent. The sea breeze sings incess...

Raspberry Sand

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I still remember how my fingers did travel However far south on a brightly colored map And your veins pushed like rush hour Weary blood c...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

VisitoR

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We make weapons of judgment with cones and with rods, And satirical fodder that we drum off in snares. We laugh and we love that we're a...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Let's Be Friends

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Fair skin in a dress devil black... You were always for high contrast. In the night, regrets are easier to hide In the night, secrets are to...
Monday, March 21, 2011

a posthumous picture.

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I am aspherical insobriety, Dizzy from every perfect edge Growing up, Growing up I've invested in Stress fractures And failure tes...

Conscious Lag

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The darkness was divided into three separate sides: Predawn, postdusk, and the ellipses of night. Between the transitions, there was complet...
Sunday, March 20, 2011

M.G. C.E.T.

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Turn the engine easy over, It runs smooth along every edge With yellow lights that cast over The only way you've ever known home That yo...
Friday, March 18, 2011

Pure Moonlight

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This is the closest I'll get to silent peace, We cleared the east thousands of feet Below a sea of loose atoms To live life like loose f...
Thursday, March 17, 2011

Scott's Day

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I could feel her fading before my eyes, Dissolving in a bath of tears While her tethered fears precipitated. Her indigo shadows bled into ne...

All Night

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There was a man with a plan who couldn't swim, So he built a bridge instead between two days, It was planned on blue paper called the ni...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Reference Frame

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Tell my why you wake up worried about the air pressure Like your decorated ears would pop And your years of listening would leak, Like today...
Monday, March 14, 2011

Maps of Matter

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The blindest map is our imminent collision, The romantically-lit celestial ballroom Which started as the condensed chalk That was nature...

Moving Forward

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You know, I've never been too good at school, But I could spell out your articulated intentions And I could read your bread-breaking lip...
Saturday, March 12, 2011

Save Cameron

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And all the scales in your head started tipping Towards the lovely nothing you've held inside. This heart throbs like a backwards joyrid...
Friday, March 11, 2011

One-Armed Politics

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Grade school attics hold static semantics, Airy buffers that let our wet clothes breathe, But the secret senate had said forget it And disso...

Claustrophobic Side View

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My ears are still ringing from the words you said, Or was it artist brushed up in my head? Here is my water and here is my bread, Stomach of...
Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Make Your Definition In Anticipation

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I could give you every word he has uttered Like the loose change that makes these pockets heavy That is frantically pushed into a meter soli...