Busy Being Them

Can there be an explanation for everything? A basic reason why that is Our trumpeting truth with which Knocks away the dusty deniers Ridiculous liars And the ugly clowns that come with them? Can there be just coincidence? A meeting of minds that contains The combination of elements creating what is Our awareness, but not our […]

Myself

Convince myself Keep myself Resist myself Tell myself My own worst enemy My only true friend Prove myself Fight myself See myself Build myself Plot myself Edit myself Destroy myself Be there for me.

Boundaries Chapter One

Boundaries Chapter One “Mom, come on, we’re going to be late.” I’m standing in my mom’s dining room waiting for her again. I’ve been ready to go for over an hour and I tried not saying anything to see if she could just get ready without me telling her to, but clearly she can’t. My […]

Walking

Will you walk through And forget What you’ve done? Will you walk by And forget Who you lost? Will you walk in And forget where you’ve been? Or Will you walk on without us?

Monsters Drive By

Sunny day or perhaps with clouds Rain and maybe wind Calm travel Stop at a light Turn left or Turn right When I glimpse it Terrible Teeth Mouth stretched wide Silent screaming Eyes peeled back Terror strikes I shriek Monsters Least suspected Just so briefly Mouths still closing Back to normal I’m still shaking Fright […]

Intentional Forgetting

It’s easy to forget if you’re busy. When constant interruption Keeps you from focusing On what’s wrong. It’s easy to get lost In constant entertainment Overlooking your world Just to be gone. It’s easy to grow complacent With constant distraction Erasing your questions Of what ought to belong. It’s easy to ignore what you’re neglecting If you’ve given up What […]

Tables and graphs

You measure life By your successes But You create no charts, legends, or keys There is no presentation documenting the good Just burning images of all the bad Your loss Your hurt Your wasted time But each failure is actually a success Yes, you learned a valuable lesson Which ought to be followed with “Today I” […]

We’re Inexplicably Drawn

I find tunnels more frightening than woods and Neighbors more than strangers and Crowds more than isolation and Calm more than panic Each one Unpredictable, rash, volatile Familiarity is more dangerous than the obscure and Walking away more than toward and Comfort more than anguish and Love more than hate Each one with your back turned Attacks

Lost To Us

A window A screen A light on inside You sitting at the table You reading a book A door A knocker A light on inside You tiptoeing You crouching A sliding glass door A screen A light on inside You on the couch back with your book A forehead resting on the wall A sob […]

On Making Plans

Go ahead. It doesn’t matter. I’ll do what I want and you can fuck off.