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going up, coming down

the following are two people in an elevator realizing how lonely they are and how worthless the realization is for no eye contact is made, the floor is reached, and nothing is said by either. * the moon in a lake cannot be saved from drowning only emptied into a glass that blurs back to a circle that still … Continue reading

SILENT

this much i know is true: there are no truths and i know much of nothing * there is no such thing as good poetry only poetry in good things like when you are standing in a forest with the mist of a waterfall whispering your way towards an escape from a summer’s day that … Continue reading

presbyopia

look i can’t stop now because i have things to do and to start later on so that one day i can have kids and they’ll say dad tell me a story about all those things you do and i’ll read them this poem proud and mighty about the wrangled product after working and working just … Continue reading

red real burrow

he offed himself on himself from a life where he often felt like something awful was missing until he found it quite naturally eyes rolling back into the offering of himself * i am in a streetwar between the sky and the ground and though the ground has at least two legs up on the … Continue reading

yorick’s laugh

walk into the beauty outside and you may find it has walked inside you * humankind is often not so kind and sometimes even less human * to be is not to be for both are tied like a knot around one’s neck where the only defense is words and the only defense against that … Continue reading

the big contraction

the clouds give the sky a kiss until she wets all in the shapeless ecstasy of all there is * it’s alright is said when it isn’t alright and when there is nothing to say anymore * i’m scrapping by with these scraps that i hope can later be joined together to make me feel … Continue reading

sun soaked

apologies future generations we were too busy offing the world and writing apologies that we didn’t have time to think of you and y(our) problems * a breath away from your body under orange sky streaking a naked blue pure untouched waiting for the little bit of an exhalation that’ll eventually form a cloud or … Continue reading

carnival prize isn’t fair

there is something to be said about not having the words yet i just don’t know how to say it at the moment * without god i am left to believe that what i believe leaves me as i and that is a bit unfortunate because i am told there is so much more than … Continue reading

night flight

ground your desire to fly with the lightness of darkness that surrounds totally making you feel nothing except for the weight of everywhere it has been like your mouth and your eyes and inside those limbs that wave in night without anyone seeing not even you only feeling the something in you and the dark … Continue reading

womb man

be a man legs open like a dog’s tongue on a hot day panting and pantless   be a man looking at the sun eyes closed eventually after imprinting it with night   be a man wanting to be a woman to understand what she wants you to be as a man   be a … Continue reading