From the 2019 Collection "2222"
#222 #2222 #comedy #existential #gulag #jmartindean
Love is endless. Mercy, too. A great debt unpaid, sitting on my doorstep, first-class.
Whether you’re preaching to the ch… or your words fall on deaf ears, just know you won’t swing a single vote.
As far as the eye can see— Limitless blue nowhere to be found.
I wept at the sight of my guru’s picture, Praise God, He is always with me, a Holy thing,
A tide of blood, miniature in compare— But an ocean no less, to the virus in there.
I feel newly acquainted with this skin, everything is novel, intensity is wherever my eyes land,
That one more, chasing the dragon, carrot dangling,
When I see the little holes where the earrings used to be I wonder what they embraced and then renounced to get to now.
(1) Under an open window I gaze out until the wonder is gon… Having run out of questions I fal… but perk up when a stray cat appea…
Like a Somali pirate just pull up on the Grim Reaper, surprise him
The Rock made me to see each month as a day. The Rock implored that I be patie… with a patience so radical it slips into renunciation
There was on my property an old gnarled stump, it was weathered and hardened, It was aesthetically pleasing as d… but I decided to take it to a spec…
Curling black from crematorium sta… tell me again the hoax of the soul… The cowl paces, pretends to be faceless, swinging silver and wafting saccha…
Praise those who sit and wait for nothing. Who sit still and know they are owed nothing. On the mat each inhalation
I saw him on the side of the road, on the side of the interstate exit… Maybe he was 18, definitely not 21… tired but not yet haggard. The moment I saw him