Lost in the leaves
of my own story… walking home aloneyour presenceis allI desire I hunger foryour lipsI thirstfor your soul the chain of your devotionmay set me freeif I can allow emotionto transcend my thoughts gray is the backgroundfor your spectrum of colorsas I try to stay afloatamidst the companyof others
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 […]
arguing with myself
If I attempt to translate, communicate, my thoughts on the futility of human efforts in regards to the eternal, my inability to accept anthropocentric ideologies, what would you do? If I told you that when I look at the human race I see a massive herd of animals running around making noises in order to […]
Out of sight
What is in front of me is not always what occupies my thoughts. They tend to wander to distant unreachable places: fantasies, delusions of grandeur, wishful dreaming, wistful thinking. Envious of those able to stave off melancholy with hope, passion, appreciation, syzygy, all I have is a double-edged sword inscribed with: “curiosity.” How to wield […]
“As long as philosophy has to make its prime business the provision of safeguards against error, truth will be bound to have its martyrs.”
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
