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  • aside over soliloquy

    Something inside me 
    used to be angry; 
    I gnawed off it. 
    Something to listen to
    on the way to everywhere - 
    nod with it. 
    Some pills that
    spilt over my bedside
    nodding off them. 
    Every now and then
    I don’t hate myself,
    but not often. 
    
    Flash - 
    the lightning grumbles. 
    Crash -
    my thoughts crumble. 
    Something inside me 
    remembers the toast,
    shit,
    I'm not with it.
    
  • Memento

    Remember you die, so you do not forget to live.

  • salient

    I listen.

    It’s my job not to pay attention, but I listen.
    I like to hear them laugh
    and enjoy each other.
    I love their stories and their snores through
    a well-earned nap.

    I like to hear their families say,
    “Jacob turns eight this year.”
    Actually,
    that’s Carl you’re thinking of,
    but that’s okay.

    I weep inside for
    their breakup’s, their hard times,
    their mom’s sick.
    They piece my heart back together
    when they ask their
    other
    if they’ve eaten. They called
    just to ask that and if
    they could pick anything up.

  • The Underground – A Note

    Music credit: Test Drive – Joji
  • Fevers and Chills

    Fevers and Chills

    With black tendrils
    she sways,
    down her forehead
    and brushed back
    with toned, olive polish.
    Her clothes fall freely
    with her legs,
    her breasts,
    her feet bare
    when she can 
    help it. 
    Subtly, into back
    she fades - 
    no, 
    like the backdrop 
    walks with her. 
    
  • Tri Cyclic

    I did nothing
    but watch
    helpless
    as the young
    of my generation,
    the gifted
    and beautiful,
    trapped themselves
    in the same 
    dead ends 
    we hated the old
    for wasting their
    lives on.
    
    I’m sorry. 
    
  • Rubber

    I would have rather walked. Despite the early spring chill, I longed for a refreshing hike.

    I parked, feeling the tires’ dread an inch from a small grit burn. They needn’t have gone through this existential horror except that I had so many quarters to rid myself of. 

    Standing at the roadside, the long–necked animal swallowed my change. It ate eagerly, one by one, and in turn showed all that I was an honest person with no proclivity for petty crime. 

    I waited for the meter to down the last coin with a metallic gulp. After it squawked happily, I climbed back behind the wheel and drove home so I could take the walk I desired instead.

  • Seeing/Believing

    People see
    what they like.
    I just 
    keep my step.