Pandemonium Dear Lettie,It’s been 8 months Since I went anywhereWith anyoneother than You Remember? We sat so highThat striped tent Made our hair stand on end That wasBefore all of thisBefore the coughingBefore the distanceBefore the lines of half facesBecame the sign of contributing citizens I wonder what happened To all of those monkeysI wonder if the only time they … [Read more…]
I go best with cigarettes And shitty poetry You can find me in All those places Where you go to worship Or loathe yourself The twenty four hour diners And the basement bars I sell indulgences At altars of hopelessness Notes of dirt And caramel I am a drug of choice No one seems to … [Read more…]
16:42 after PRN Ativan. I sit there Watching the child—A half dead batteryResting in between two copper coilsin the back of a television remote. I thank god he’s sleeping this long;Because it means I get to sit longer. Stare longer.A blade of grass balancing a single drop of dew until the sun burns it away. When he … [Read more…]
Tentative Title: Evening Waves The sky tonight reminds me of yogurtThe sugared kind that I used to pack awayBefore I turned double digitsThe kind I used to peel open Bracing myself for the splatter The sky kind of feels like that too todayLike I’ve been waiting for it to come crashing down I tell you about … [Read more…]
Tentative title: “Second Child Puppet Show” I am consistently remindedof how tenuously the chordsof my existence were played.I am both a last try, and a last opportunity Can you believe? the last drop of DNA used—to compose my half a brain. I live in the scarecrow realmconsistently distracted by my own processing speedso that my … [Read more…]
