The Birds

Taking the light rail in, standing to avoid company. I think, maybe this suits me. Meeting the world with a glum frown that comes off as practised, professional. Frown that tells you not to worry, I’ve done this before. It might just be the way that everything is swaying slightly that makes me feel so [...]

How I Spent My Summer Vacation

the high tension wires hum on a still day hear them when the cicada buzz dims when the sea gulls that gather in parking lots are quiet and fed these new towers we watched them raise already rust red brown mascara tears streaming from each bolt and we all stop and look and ponder impermanence [...]

Human Sacrifice, Cancer and Skeletons, or: How Love Will Take You Apart and Rebuild You Different

this love of ours growing like cancer, taking over things which do not belong to it corrupting cells feels that way in my chest rushing swell and i’m praying not malignant or would be praying if i did instead watching cigarette glow latticed with outer dead layer of ash which scatters into wind whipped world [...]

8mm, mostly

ft. garbage juice on bass

There,

Why We Didn’t Make it to the Movie

One day we rise from bed and it’s the future outside a man coughs and coughs and spits wow, we think to ourselves, what interesting customs there are here in this time we scan the place for differences and for signs of the past we left behind we find yogurt, two days expired we find [...]

trish (on earth)

you say the glass is gone and you’re here now well not here with me but you know or you say “you know” and you mean I know you know so suddenly awaked from dream of shackles and blindfold or not blindfold maybe but coke bottle glasses distorting, giving headaches, making dizzy now you can [...]

vs. mechagodzilla

tired eyed shamblers walk blearily through hangover haze that the sun pushes through enthusiastic cutting paths through shuttered eyelids walk past scab-kneed skate kids with bits of asphalt in their palms and engravings of past mistakes shining white on tan skin stretched taut across scrawny bone scampering back to boards ejected while mechanized frustration sits [...]

sticky-wet drowsy end of summer

i catch you looking at me or near me or close enough that everyone thinks you’re staring in an embarrassing photograph you are listless and beautiful your glance trailing off, losing momentum before it reaches and falling gently to the floor a redbrown leaf kept leathery not crisp by late rains and mist and fog [...]

storm clouds clearing (or moving in)

y’all get clickin

Disassembled Typewriter at the End of the World

click it imo

how we got malaria

sitting down in the crater out behind my seventh-grade school she says listen to it like music [there is a siren somewhere] the wind is blowing, rattling trees there is a baseball game (its late and dark, the lights are on) jingling dog; buses hum past mosquitos fly about, an unstoppable menace we lay as [...]

You’re So Dramatic When You Eat Candy

i visited moonshine in november and ate some mushrooms and went for a walk and saw the best radiohead concert and the next day i woke up early at some point (as i was eating candy i guess) trish told me, “you’re so dramatic when you eat candy” so i took my ballpoint pen and [...]

The Bob Newhart Show

so then one day we come tumbling out together the two of us from some stuffy compartment suddenly the whole world turns up noses  on their fickle feeble faces turns around and walks away turns into an unfamiliar thing and my god aren’t we all new here isn’t this your first day too (learning how [...]

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