We were trying to have a good time.
He wastrying to deal withburied familial tiesslowly beingunearthed.Support him.Deal with,process,analyze,respond toher text.Protect yourself.A moral dilemma.Do no harm unto others.Where will that lead you?
“As long as philosophy has to make its prime business the provision of safeguards against error, truth will be bound to have its martyrs.”
Church with Mother
the point of your earringdriven by your polished nailsthrough your sunday skirtand into your pale thighdistracts you from the painyou really feelin an attempt to keepyour eyes dry
Too many questions, not enough answers
My pen is dry—literally.I try to scour up enough ink to mark notes down during class. Change my penmanship. Cursive, loopy letters turn symbolic.Can symbols be symbolic or do we have to make it a metaphor? The truth is:I just haven’t been feeling very poetic lately. Maybe it’s the weather.It’s fucking cold and I’malways runningoutside […]
An exercise in gratefulness and commas
The moon, beaming forth through the clouds during what we here call night, deemed subtle by 21 years of moderately consistent and considerably persistent sensual perception, altered slightly by eclipses, harvest moons and other planetary alignments so far beyond my grasp, attempting to keep this world, this universe, our existence, in balance, disrupted by mankind, […]
Escape from Colter Bay
We dipped out of the crowded testosterone binto a couples discount.(I think he knew we were sober) We both liked the dress,but opinions of her voice contrasted. Respect somehow was lost during the next round;I don’t quite remember the cause. You were smart enough to testthe caged alpha monkey. Yup—it’s still weird. Old acquaintances jabbered […]
Against boredom themselves…
What is there left to donow that God isn’t watching? Now that airplanes and the internethave proved cultural relativism to bemostly a crock of shit. Humanists forgot about the environment.Environmentalists forgot about the human experience. Now that ethics are subjective,Matter is the only objective constant,and it’s in a state of constant flux. Sometimes all I […]
I may be a mirror
on not in
This neutered state of selfis changedmindsets and habitsrearranged Conversationsranged:ideologysociologysexualityneutralitygoodandevil We talked to other peoplebut wound up next to each other You came home with me You climbed onto my bedbut not into it.You came home with me,but you didn’t stay
An Ode to My Friend
we’ll start off in quantifiable terminology Over the past few months, you became my best friend.One of the few that would indulge my pseudomeaningful babble.We spoke over Bananagrams, tea, and nicotine til 5amand turned to beseech the sun:Please, just…don’t.You allowed me to present my chain of reasoning that proposes Zeno did not hand us a […]
