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a little light

clouds as teeth against your blue shaping into sweet supple nothings that have milked everything from my bite except for you staying solid and untouched by the allure of flight in the sky as a baby unaware it was born without wings * time between us old lovers fumbling wrinkles and curves unwanted through wanting … Continue reading

how to live

a guide to those trying to measure morals: – cut into paper before it cuts into you – cannibalize self-doubt such as whether you can cannibalize the doubting self – stay starved and bleeding and unrealized surprising yourself at mesmerising inconsistency – die – write a little space for yourself in nothing but space as … Continue reading

shellshock

i want to tell you that i too have no wants untold that i am complete like a snail shell with being but i sometimes feel left behind to empty and hole up with sands that come after the city is ground into its elements and glass remains a liquid slow moving wearing on your … Continue reading

flesh, fickle helmet

white stains like skulls on the bedsheets she wakes up buried beside me a miracle of morning clambering for coffee that she could choke on if only today didn’t hold the confusion of why aren’t you up yet you have to get going no one can know about this   her butt bends light with … Continue reading

straight to the waist

we need you the dead to remind us of our connection to the living earth * the day deadens into another like a bad but continuous date flirting for a night that lightens underneath heavy covers and kissing toes where among summer somebodies who hold winter in their pants despite remaining pantless with flowers embroidered … Continue reading

a once in a lifetime show

i’ve never been here before so i apologize that i sift like a snake who realized it didn’t have legs but could’ve and sometimes feels like it does with leftover limbs that lead me to a different now now that i am sure is great if i can just stop and hear what is being … Continue reading

conjoined at the lips

  the following follow the long tradition of being afraid to lead. * we are never alone for we are all alone * the meaning of life is simple: do not demean life as simple * the only way to do is to stop saying that the only way to do is to start saying … Continue reading

something something something something

the following aren’t much and that’s why they are too much to follow. * i have spent my life looking for more than my life and what i have spent * i am nothing but like a beached whale i still try to wiggle my legs that are useless and inside sucked up into the … Continue reading

the golden ruler

sea shells release oceans with echoes of life that come back in reverse when oceans release sea shells with life in echoes * how to to: dance freely and listen to the tripping of your tongue * the real golden rule is knowing the difference between do unto others and do un to others * … Continue reading

welled worth

took me 25 years to learn how to speak well another 50 to write better and 75 to realize that no one gives a damn what is said * damned if i do damned if i don’t damned if i do i and damn if i don’t which is something i would do in my … Continue reading