From the 2018 Collection "The Dead Dog Parish"
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Walking lakeside, I try to discern what the frogs a… but their drone is one collective… Diving again and again after the secret,
I would lie with my hand on the B… I would lie with my hand on a stac… of Holy Qurans. I would look you dead-in-the-eye, and tell you a lie.
As far as the eye can see— Limitless blue nowhere to be found.
To be a ghost is to always be aghast— To not know which direction is the future or the past.
Whether you’re preaching to the ch… or your words fall on deaf ears, just know you won’t swing a single vote.
Ten days secluded now, improper and unshaven inside a black and gold hole, dope den of sultry sound and opiate mood.
You can get better, or you can get worse, or you can stay the same. But you can’t change. Nope!
The duration of a miracle is exactly one moment, after that you may as well be talking about what happened in the big game last night.
Just leave the fucking flags at ha… Or half-staff. Or whatever it’s called. Just fucking leave them there.
Oh, Death! Two beers and I’m on my back! Skipped the shower, skipped the toothbrush. Just a film of sweat,
I wept at the sight of my guru’s picture, Praise God, He is always with me, a Holy thing,
I once found in what appeared to be cistern carved within a boulder, an owl’s wing,
The cicada, once with the humility of a barnac… weeping beneath the fern, now screams its inane mantra, which
I have this sensation when remembering the poignant noteworthy moments, Lovers, the Dead, crimes—
When the world wasn’t burning I felt optimistic that one day I could come home