Excuse my existential
I just dropped my cigar box on my toe.
Everyone trying to sleep in this house might say:At least it wasn’t loud.I just saidow.
In the midst of
The oxymoronicality of a subjective cosmological satire
The chains of apathy hold me upas I latently struggleto break freeinto this world of boundless limitationsI rest tirelesslyhidden in plain sightamidst the light of the nightdreading the darkness of the dawnand all the terrorizingacts of human compassionseeking the solace of lonelinessin my closest companionswondering how a world so beautifulcan look so uglywe are taught […]
a state of anxiety
Tonight, Life was Hope/Love
Take my hand,And walk with meFor the sake of life.We will walkThrough the shining beams of light,The stretches of darkness.Tonight, we deem destination unnecessary,For our ends lie within our selves.Take my hand,And speak to meFor the sake of life.We can talkOf anything we want,Or nothing at all.Tonight, the subject is us,For we long to share.Take […]
accepting premises
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 […]
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, […]
