he keeps it bottled for days like these vintage destinies rush toward the… breaths of dead fruits inhale deep… and he drowns himself in their req…

you lose your breath when the fist hits your gut you lose your mind when you love a woman you lose your keys

when she wants only to see the heavens choke patience lost in all things

that is another man’s suicide if i kill myself there will be hookers

i drifted onto your shore a withered vessel the skeleton of a ship torn sails draped over masts like dead bodies

i began to tell a grim story of a puppy left alone beneath an overcast sky at first i saw a lost dog sad and without

dressed only in screams showered with water and death life escapes by drain

fallen from the nest mother bird leaves me to die never to take flight

the anticipation was staggering be… rifling through the closet for tha… a faded Misfits tee and my black leather jacket but the shows were always a disapp…

it is not just missing the good times slamdancing in a circle pit with your best buds at a rock show blacklit basement parties

voices spread through the room like butterflies or wildfires inspiring some to try a new way of thinking

what she says has gravity a truth that pulls you closer to t… brings your feet to meet the earth… in your own shoes and see that the toe is starting t…

i didn’t call her because i felt like being alone and celebratory sex wasn’t going t… to validate another year of suffer… another notch in the belt

short glass of water to wash back the pills in hand last glass of water

after nineteen years she thinks of him as a fart something to air out