I wonder if Behind the smiles Pleasantries and whatnot It’s all just an act Their love is just words Ash swirling on the wind A strong color Faded in the harsh sunlight – Ease will not be coming Only an embrace of reality A real hard pill to swallow But a panacea when ingested One’s …
I watched a fire truck blow past in its cacophonous haste. I wondered where it was off to, someone or some place having a shit day no doubt. I remember once looking out over a grim industrial Chinese city wrapped in the dense orange nighttime pollution only possible in the depths of a winter on …
I’m told 1969 was the most erotic year That’s what Gainsbourg claimed at least Today, in consumerism’s dizzying era I sit with a headache – Gone is the age of aquarius and its free love Now it’s free parking and free samples Nothing erotic unless it sells The hot girls gyrate to hawk shit – …
In the moment between heartbeats In the silent orbits of moons Existence stands on tiptoe Breath anxiously paused – Hairs on my head choose a direction to grow Oblivious of solar winds Ambient radiation that bombards Growing in steadfast silence – Atoms divide and combine Evolution works its slow wonder Volcanos wait It is all …
A year of abbreviated distance The wide world reduced To walking distance In a hipster neighborhood The streets have been walked And rewalked for good measure The only variable is the other walkers And the mercurial storms of the Rio de la Plata – A year only on foot Nature only that this is prim …
“When I was a kid there was this song I fucking hated, but I think I’ve been saving it for you.” “Wow. That is both the most and least romantic statement I’ve heard in a long time.” “Ok, yeah, that wasn’t the best way of putting it. When I was a kid we had school …
My buddy once sent me a song file with the sole description “If they ever open a disco in space, this should be its national anthem.” In addition to being the best description of a song ever written, it was the perfect frame for the song. At the time I was living in one of …
“I wonder,” she took a drag from her smoke, “I wonder if it’s too late for me.” I wanted to say something, something encouraging, some overused idiom or trite saying that would make her feel better, but in the moment, I was tongue tied. “I know,” she went on, “I know you don’t know my …
I am nostalgic for a time I never had Sitting in my friends house that I visited once Though feeling like it was my own Happy to start winter break At a college I didn’t attend Watching the snow fall outside in a place where it doesn’t snow – I am warm in my hoodie …
I was watching a youtube interview, or actually a series of youtube interviews with people from what the creator termed the underbelly of society. Now underbelly is a loaded term, but here he means it in the ‘vulnerable’ sense. He referenced Churchill calling Italy the soft underbelly of the axis powers. In this sense, he …