From the 2018 Collection "The Dead Dog Parish"
Nothing is all I ever wanted, now I’ve got it all! Careful! Lest I become a braggart… From nowhere it’s a hard fall.
Formulate an agenda Make friends. Label enemies. Identify beliefs. Re-examine.
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.
I gave way to Love and felt some marked change in psyche something difficult to speak about
It occurs to me now that no one hears my song. Still young, I am discarded. I don’t anticipate being surprised at my aloneness in old age.
Just leave the fucking flags at ha… Or half-staff. Or whatever it’s called. Just fucking leave them there.
Like a Somali pirate just pull up on the Grim Reaper, surprise him
Here comes the awakened caste, to save none from their last. Extinction has been decided best, again, Earth will not
Brian and I were driving through… which is another name for Indianap… somewhere in South Broad Ripple, a dicey zone and the neighborhoods… we slowed up through a street line…
Here in the suburb of Royalwood e… looks as it did decades ago, entro… where the deep slumber of human li… age and breed with rapidity and se… We sat out here and explored the…
Therein are the spoils of sorrow, the fruit of hardship, where wind snaps and prevails. Death whispers a hollow secret and I still shiver
She lives no where, has no coordinates, she took me to the gallows, tempted me in the garden and my voice boomed.
It’s good here decapitate me here this moment perfect astounding unknowing faith in God not necessary
I thought for sure I was dejected… but in slipped a delusion of grandeur, victory— I garnered admiration,
A whole lifetime can go by simple and average, without change, misunderstood, or understood all too well—