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Hit and run

Does a man who does not run from rain have nowhere to be or is here where there is no one else that can see that even shadows have tears in the peace and rejuvenation of self? * Sinking city with a car for a lighthouse I rock on the road holding on to the … Continue reading

Middlemen march

We are unified by suffering and separated from those we make suffer and widening this gap with status and money and me who looks for status and money and me in things other than status and money is humanity’s progress up to date * I am always in the middle where the endings are nowhere … Continue reading

Falling always

We are falling always until we land for good   I lose her in small ways that wouldn’t mean much to anyone else but that’s why I had her and lost her too   We are falling always until we land for good   The garden’s jealous of spring for it is entrenched in an … Continue reading

Dirt wings

To ruin love fall in love and to love ruin fall in love and to love love fall in ruin * I’m caught here in the empty whole of a garden with no plants and the slumber of other hands and another sun not found here where my hands block the full whole with a … Continue reading

Something said

The room was empty while I sat in it waiting for the future to come with my letters still in my pen and my pen still in me as I busied myself with the dog barks and the domestic savagery of letting it out because it was a wolf anyways and I sat back down saw … Continue reading

Man lit with lit

Burn those expanding circles and the edges that you’ll never see again where the chance to jump has faded through life   Burn for you’ll never amount to anything and most of the time you’ll amount to less   Burn hotter than the fires that consume you so that when they overcome they do not … Continue reading

With and without

Puberty stripped me naked in bumps and hair that ravaged Ikea catalogues and parents’ alcohol cabinets where I turned wine back to water after a night out with friends and better friends who let me see what they saw daily and sometimes felt if we had drunk enough of the miracle of each other’s company … Continue reading

The disappeared

Winter is carried on the wind of carnage and caught in the leaves left ruined and falling onto me as I sit alone wishing for better company than the snow that’ll bury me if I sit here watching the summer sun soak one more time in a season that is too long and another that … Continue reading

the five questions

i am having sex with people i don’t know   who am i   they cannot tell that i came from hunger like this   when did i crawl so   there is nothing left in naked uncertainty except for love   why do i feel this   i’m ripped apart like a dog devouring … Continue reading

Regression

There is so much to see ahead but think about all you’ve forgotten to see behind and all that has forgotten to see you too for these deep failures are what there is to see – but mostly not – ahead * Sex she says is a handshake while her hand shakes on my torso then … Continue reading