When words come slowly practice your handwriting
ink on the pageis an actor on stagebut words aren’t always truelike a guitar slightly out of tunemetaphors and analogiespainting with imagerycan we createor only imitatereduplicate?is choice an illusionbecause everything is determinedor am I just lost in confusion man instills meaning and valuebut what does value mean?are we all aloneor are we a team?what have […]
go do
It’s been a whilesince I’ve dreaded my bedit’s been a whilesince I’ve been alone in my headsometimes there’sstrange thoughts up theresometimes I think thingsthat other people don’t want to hearsometimes I wonderwhat it will be liketo live a lifewatching thingspeoplefriendsfamilydieit makes me anxiousit makes us all nervousso try to think aboutthe good thingsall the things […]
Pretendtious
just bad luck
I was four beers deepwhen I thought to myselfmaybe I shouldn’t have hadthose four beers.Maybe I should haveapologized to youinstead. So I rode my biketo get a pack of cigarettes,and think it over.Then I took a shower,to wash away the smoke,and think it over. I sobered up.And then I drove North. I’m still not sure […]
This is bad
When was it,exactly,that I started believing people could beGoodagain? Was it after thefifth beer? Or after that shot ofwhatever the fuck? Or maybe it wassome other event,conversation,occurrence,marked by human interaction,rather thanostracized gulpsof self-prescribed medication. Well,it was definitely before I returned homealone. We are all here.Sharing this life,this time,this place. But the truth iswe are all […]
Why did I let you go?
You brought your avocadosand onions.I bought the limes,tomato,and beer.We shared it all,along with the couchand a sad story. We talked offar off placesand home,and pulled a blanket overusfor warmthand comfortand proximity. Our bodies rested againsteach other.But I didn’t grab your hand.I wouldn’t wrap my arms around you.I don’t know if I should have. But I […]
“As long as philosophy has to make its prime business the provision of safeguards against error, truth will be bound to have its martyrs.”
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
