Oh, Death! Two beers and I’m on my back! Skipped the shower, skipped the toothbrush. Just a film of sweat,

When the world wasn’t burning I felt optimistic that one day I could come home

Formulate an agenda Make friends. Label enemies. Identify beliefs. Re-examine.

(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…

Every once in a while, when my bunkmates are asleep (or at least I hope they are), and the jingle of the keys fades to the end of the hall,

The moon lulls me as I wade through poppy fields, dragging limp hands behind me, catching each pod long enough before it snaps upright again

Like a Somali pirate just pull up on the Grim Reaper, surprise him

Love is endless. Mercy, too. A great debt unpaid, sitting on my doorstep, first-class.

I’ll give you what I got, I can part with it all. I have gifts— A silk tongue,

I remember being unmoved at more than one funeral at more than one memorial looking about impatiently impervious to the cries of the cry…

Ten days secluded now, improper and unshaven inside a black and gold hole, dope den of sultry sound and opiate mood.

In your gut is an empire— Spells, tug of war, Holy Days, ascent, decline.

Hell came through on battered wings, and thought to ask just one last thing. That If I could,

A Sacred Site, to my mind, is the last place you’ll ever stan… Such a place reveals hypocrisy without shaming,