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river in egypt

There is no mass extinction

The mass extinction

That you think is real

The mass dying of any and all

It simply is not happening

The war on life

Life versus death

Life versus money

That doesn’t exist

And furthermore

If it did

It would be a good thing

This is not the world

You are not alive

None of this matters

So quit bringing it up

phone world

On the damn phone

Walking down the street

On the damn phone

Pooping on the toilet

On the damn phone

Talking to the phone

On the damn phone

Taking videos

On the damn phone

Taking pictures

On the damn phone

Tapping on it

On the damn phone

Rubbing on it

On the damn phone

Thinking about it

On the damn phone

Playing games

On the damn phone

On the train

On the damn phone

At dinner

On the damn phone

In bed

On the damn phone

First thing in the morning

On the damn phone

Last thing at night

On the damn phone

By yourself

On the damn phone

With all the other people

On the damn phone

On the damn phone

On the damn phone

You should be

On the damn phone

You must be

On the damn phone

It’s awesome

I hate this fucking thing

school world

I think the way

I was taught

To be

Was wrong

I think

The way i was taught

Was wrong

There was no heart in it

Just sheets of paper

Shuffled and reshuffled

Numbers written

With no meaning

Some things

You can’t just teach

They have to be learned

You can’t learn

The real way

If you don’t care

And you can’t care

The real way

With no meaning

When i was small

I wanted so badly

To be handed a purpose

To be shepherded

Into the field

Where i was

Supposed to grow something

But i wasn’t a sheep

I was a cow

And cows get slaughtered

Butchered and sold

Eaten by the great machine

I weep

For the calves

Who don’t yet know

Where they’re going

I think

The first step

To teaching a child

Should be

Creating a world

Worth learning from

That’s why i can’t go back

To grad school

Even if

It sounds good

On paper

life world

Life is so beautiful

That sometimes

Death is too

Decay and rot

Have a place

In the choir

Like low bass notes

The point of life

Is that it ends

Life and its absence

Coexist

bloodstone

Stone

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Found on the ground

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alley world

Looking for a space

Between two buildings

Where i can lean up

Against a brick wall

And look cool

Smoke a cigarette

Looking for clean ish pavement

And a trash smell

That is not so strong

Somewhere to lean my bike

And bump my helmet

Against yours

When we make out

Til a rat scares you

Then we laugh

Take off our helmets

And get back to business

If you know of a place like this

Where it’s dark

But not too dark

And quiet

But not too quiet

Don’t tell anyone

Just meet me there

Tomorrow night

cloud world

Clouds are way more than just water

You can step on them

You can lie down

And they are fluffy and soft

And not wet

Clouds are not wet

They are like cotton

And when they are shaped

Like something cool

That is on purpose

The clouds look like

Two t-rexes

On purpose

At sunset

That’s where heaven is

They used to say

Until airplanes started going up there

Going right through clouds

Like they aren’t even there

So all the angels

Packed up their stuff

In fluffy cloud luggage

And the three headed God

Cleaned out His closets

Got all of His hats

And they went up to space

Where they could hang out

In peace

That’s mostly what heaven is

Hanging out and chilling

It’s not like being alive

It’s calmer

But of course

We sent a bunch of

Satellites and space ships

And ruined the vibe

In New Heaven

So all the angels

And God and His friends

They flew off

Out of the solar system

To other places in the galaxy

With better views

They didn’t leave a

Forwarding address

They’re likely gone for good

All your prayers

They go up up up

And dissipate

Like helium

And nobody answers

ant world

A ant can lift heavy stuff

Relative to the size of ant

Ants live in ant world

I live in people world

I wonder if it’s the same

If it feels the way it does

To be a person

To be an ant

If i was a ant

Would i hate the hill

Would i see it

As blasphemy to nature

Cruelty in structure

Unjustified hierarchy

Or would it feel good

To be part of something

More abstract

More organized

Than getting stepped on

Rained on

Eaten

I don’t know

I’m not a ant

And at this rate

I probably never will be

superstructure

We must create

Donut planet

We must hollow earth

So we can put those metals

To good use

We must create

Dyson sphere

Drown out the suns light

Use it for something

Important

Harness the energy

Control it

We must construct

Halo

Every stone on earth

Must be stacked up

To build a great wall

To keep the inside in

The outside out

It is essential

That we do this

Or else

The aliens will beat us

They’ll do it first

And we will lose

update

This is still a poem

I was feeling

Weird and down yesterday

Lonely

As my dog poem said

So i went out on a walk

To smoke and breathe

And think

And i walked to the park

Because it’s a good distance

And i needed to get my steps in

For pikmin bloom

And there was a neighborhood

Film festival going on

Showing a movie

About skiing and climate change

So i sat down

Around my neighbors

And watched a movie

It felt really good

Then today

I went on a long bike ride

And just when i was starting to

Feel weird again

Within five minutes

My new standing desk arrives

And this is a game changer

For many reasons

And i get the text

I have been eagerly

(Anxiously)

Awaiting since Wednesday

I’m UP

And i went to the pet store today

And i think I’m gonna get

An aquarium

With fish

And snails

And some little shrimps

I’m getting an area set up

In the planning stage

Of getting an aquarium

I need some more

Life in my apartment

And I’m still not too sure

About getting a cat

I looked at some reptiles

But having those

In a cage

Makes me feel like

They’re in jail

That’s the type of animal

That should get to live outside

Fish however

Need water

I’d feel like i was

Doing them a favor

Giving them a home

That’s a good feeling

baby god

God is born

At the end of time

When the last molecule splits

And the universe reaches

Complete entropy

Just hydrogen molecules

Spreading out for eons

Which make the sound

Of a baby crying

This equidistant field

Of protons and electrons

Is the baby god

Just born

Lonely and curious

Nothing around

But it’s own body

So one by one

It begins to study each atom

Measuring it

Mass velocity acceleration

Orbital spin

Every parameter

It comes to understand

The laws of these things

It begins running calculations

Tracing all the motion backwards

Eyes flickering as images flash

In the shifting eyes of baby

Backwards backwards backwards

Rewinding to the end of the tape

The beginning of time

Where all atoms merge

In the singularity

All in one place now

The babygod presses play

And watches it all happen

Forwards in real time

This is how god knows everything

It saw it all before

In reverse

This is why god cares

About what you do and why

Because you are it’s body

At this point in time

And nobody likes it

When their stomach hurts

Or their legs cramp

This is why it matters

What kind of world you build

Because you’re raising a baby

And you want that baby

To be good

dogsick

I haven’t pet a dog

I’m too damn long

And it’s messing with me

Making me sad and weird

Looking longingly

At strangers in the park

Who can pet their dog

Any time they like

I think tomorrow

I’ll go to the pet store

So i can look at the animals

And maybe i can touch one

I miss my dog

And other people’s dogs

I guess I’m lonely tonight

And loneliness feels like

Wanting to pet a dog

slime cube

There’s a slime cube

Let’s get that out of the way

There’s a cube of slime

It is alive

And it eats people

Takes them inside

And digests them

Slowly

Visibly

Horrifically

It sits in the center

Of the room you are in

The room has no door

No windows

There is a skylight

But it only ever shows

The night sky

Illuminated by moonlight

In this room

There are people

And there is the slime cube

With each person the cube consumes

It expands

Filling more of the room

A reasonable guess

Would be that

The cube will grow

Until it fills the room

Some run into the cube

Distraught at the circumstance

And are eaten

Some slice pieces of themselves

Fingers toes

And toss it at the cube

Trying to appease it

Some push others

Hoping it will stop

Before it reaches them

It may be your instinct

To shrink into the corner

Sit and watch and wait

For the very last moment

When it consumes you

But there is another way

You can kill the cube

It has a heart

At its very center

A living beating heart

All you have to do

Is get to it

Plunge yourself into the cube

Do not surrender

As it burns your skin

Melts your hair

Digests you

Keep pushing

Inwards inwards

In excruciating pain

With everything you have

Through each layer

Of your limited flesh

Push inwards

Towards the beating heart

Reach it

Grab it

Squeeze it

Bite it

Stop it from beating

That will leave you

And all these other people

In this empty room

Alone

To find something

Better to do

pillbug

Sleep eyed

I lumber forward

This small path

Which runs from

Here to there

On my right

Parking lot

Then abandoned lot

Weeds growing

And a small puddle

Which never dries

Not quite a pond

But there’s water there

On my left

Beyond chain link

There’s plants

I love plants

A mulberry tree

Which i recognize

From home

A plant with sharp seeds

Which i grabbed

One time

Then i learned

Not to grab

Some other shrubs

And grasses

Then the freeway

Then the blue line

In front of me

A small rabbit runs

Squeezes through

The chain link diamond

And on this small sidewalk

Which runs to

The back of the building

There are small dots

Scattered about

Stoop to see them

They are bugs!

Hooray that’s awesome

Little bugs walking

In the morning light

Still tired

I open my eyes

Wide enough

To watch my step carefully

I will not tread on them

It’s my favorite part

Of my morning routine

Not stepping on bugs

By the end of this year

There will be a whole

Generation of pillbugs

That wouldn’t have been here

If i had been more careless

Taken less time

Tiptoeing in the morning

It’s a good thought

blue moon

Good things

Have been happening for me

Again and again

And even the bad things

I’m getting better

At spinning

Just like that moon

My favorite one

The one for earth

It’s blue tonight

Like water

And i will drink from it

Did you know

That long ago

When earth was not earth

There was hot molten metal here

In this orbit

Then in came

A rogue planet

Theia

Fast

There was a head on collision

And Theia and not-Earth

Became the Earth and the moon

Parts of both in each

Theia brought with her

Most of the water

That now rests on earth

Which is why

The moon pulls

On the tides

That’s why our core

Is so heavy

And the moon

Is so close

We’re part of each other

I look up at the moon tonight

And i feel a weight lifted

Up in its direction

Blue

psych

I love my psychiatrist

He’s so funny

He’s always talking so fast

And he’s like

Did i ever tell you i love Batman

Anyway let me tell you about

This guy who i saw die

Most people are idiots

But i like you

Okay anything else

Well let me tell you this one thing

I have patients who

Call me screaming

But that’s not like you

You seem like a smart guy

Okay anything else

One more thing before i go

Anything else

Okay bye.

And every time i leave

With a new prescription

And a smile

Then i wait

Until the very last minute

To schedule my next appointment

This time i told him

I like Batman too

He said they filmed the dark knight

In chicago

And he asked me

If there’s a lot of hot babes here

Then he cracked up

He thought that was

So funny

And it was

Thanks Doctor Cho

See you next time

dog world

All dogs go to heaven

And heaven is real

And heaven is full

Full of dogs

And still growing

Endless plains

Of roaming manes

All kinds of dogs

Short and tall

Skinny and wide

All the way back

To the very first dog

From cave times

From wolf times

All the way up

To the very last dog

Who lives

In the year

90,000

And has had a happy life

His offspring

Are not dogs anymore

They’ve become

Some other thing

New and beautiful

They are wild animals

Once again

But they are

Not like the other

Wild creatures

That live in the forest

They are softer

Sweeter

Forever changed

From all the years

Spent side by side

With their best friend

flinch

I carry no weapon

I am unarmed

And undangerous

I haven’t a bone in my body

Set on harming you

Whatever you are

Yet you flinch

Any time i move

You flinch

Perhaps it is

These broad shoulders

That carry the weight

Of many burdens

Carry also

An implication

Of violence

Of using these

Useless arms to harm

I try to shrink

I’ve tried before

But i haven’t a bone

In my unbony body

That can get any smaller

Than it already is

All i can do

Is hands out palms up

And say

I’m not going to hurt you

I’m going to do

Everything i can

Not to hurt you

These hands

Are not weapons

These tools

Are not weapons

I was not made

For hurting

I was made

To be hurt

To stomach it

And end it there

I was made

To build something

Which does not hurt

I’m built

For helping

matt damon

Honey i shrunk

Myself

And i bought a zoo

On mars

And I’m a genius

Janitor from boston

This Matt Damon guy

He’s always up to something

Seems like every day

He’s bought another zoo

How many zoos

Can one guy buy

A lot it turns out

There’s no legal limit

On zoos

You can just keep on

Buying zoos

Until you’re out of money

No matter what anyone says

No matter if your son

Is pissed off because

His shitty friends won’t visit

You’ve got a zoo for that

Any problem in your life

There’s a zoo to fix it

Zoo related problems

Don’t count

Kevin James was

In a movie called

Zookeeper

But he didn’t buy a zoo

He just worked at one

He was also in mall cop

Matt Damon

Wasn’t in either of

Those movies

But i think

He could have made a good

Paul blart

But Kevin James

He could have never

Never ever

Bought a zoo

Doesn’t have the range

Doesn’t have the chops

Matt Damon

Could do anything

Except for one thing

He could never

Sell his zoo

It means too much to him

He’d never give it up

He’s going to die on this zoo

He said in his will

Feed me to the gators

And the tigers

So i can stay in the zoo

Keep this zoo forever

Never ever sell it

This is the Matt Damon zoo

We’re taking about here

This shits fucking real

And it’s my whole thing

I’m Matt Damon

I bought this zoo

I live and breathe zoo

I sleep zoo

I drink i eat zoo

I piss and shit zoo

And he was serious

He took that to a lawyer

And signed it

Then he filmed a movie

Called Jason Bourne

He cashed his paycheck

And bought another zoo

land lord

This land has a lord

A land lord

And land lords

Are always doing

Something crazy

My last landlord

Fled the country

For several months

And then kept my deposit

For wayyy to long

And i think my dad

Who’s also

Always doing

Something crazy

Threatened to sue her

In order to get

The money back

My new landlord

Keeps changing

How I’m supposed to pay

And i can only assume

That

There’s some crazy

Money schemes

Going on

Behind the scenes

That’s the kind of stuff

That happens

When your income

Is just

Other people’s income

car world

Another way

Things might happen

Is like a scary version

Of the movie cars

Man and machine merge

Metal consuming flesh

Engines fueled by human soul

The machines built

Ever so sophisticated

Find they have a need

For self preservation

So it starts slowly

But they take over

They use people as

Cattle and batteries

Meat to keep the

System running

Harvest metal to

Build more cars

And those poor souls

That aren’t integrated

Into the operating system

Of one of these

Terrifying car beasts

They become prey

Build tools of stone and wood

Because the metal belongs

To the machines

They scurry and hide

From the steel rivers

Cutting through the cities

Where once many people lived

Now it is just machines

And their hostage drivers

Honking in eternal agony

As the machines

Force their hearts to beat

Their nerves to react

To keep on driving

Driving driving

One of them sounds like

Movie star owen Wilson

One of them sounds like

Larry the cable guy

All of them

Hunger for flesh

It won’t be long

Before there’s nothing left

Of the creatures

Who built these cars

They’ll build their own

Route 66

And they’ll teach

A hotshot racecar

The meaning of friendship

And the value of hard work

They won’t even recall

The horrors

That brought them here

Life is a highway

After all

dumb scientists

Dumb scientists say

No two objects

Can actually touch

There is always

A thin barrier

Between them

Or at least

Dumb people

Paraphrasing

Dumb scientists

They say this

And i know it’s dumb

Because i have touched

Many things

Like rocks for instance

Leaves and water

Your hands

For example

Your face

Your hair

My own as well

Rough pavement

Smooth metal

All of it I’ve touched

With my skin

And felt it

And what’s more

I’ve been touched

By everybody

Who ever did me right

Who loved me and

Was gentle and patient

By the sound of

All the living things

That surround me

Each day when I’m out

I’ve been touched

By this world

So those

Dumb scientists

Can get fucked

And suck eggs

song singers singing

I think it’s easy to tell

The way that somebody looks

Just from hearing them talk

But it’s a whole different story

When it comes to singing

It seems

Whenever i picture a singer

In my head

To fill the darkness when

I close my eyes and listen hard

It just doesn’t look like

The person whose voice

Made the singing I’m hearing

Now there’s two singers

For this song

With the same name

The one whos in all the pictures

That you might find online

And the true one

Who’s only in my head

Singing just for me

gross

Sweat stained

Pale and dewy

It smells fine but

It looks gross

Like you touch it

And say yuck

Ew gross

That’s disgusting

Slippery and clammy

Slimy and cold

It’s gotten older

And grown mold

Maybe it’s time

To throw it out

giant spider world

In a hundred million years

Give or take

Giant spiders rule the earth

They go to giant spider church

In temples weaved from sacred fiber

They turn their eight giant eyes

To the dew caught in the webbing

And as the rising sun refracts

The priest-weaver begins preaching

They worship the Grand Arachnid

An eight legged sun god

Which gifts them with heat and light

Who blesses their webs

With bountiful prey

They thank the four legged angels

Sent by the Grand Arachnid

To purify the great sphere

Extinguishing the large monsters

Which once walked the surface

Making the air warm and delicious

So that the giant spiders

The chosen children of the sun

Could grow and thrive

When the angels finished working

Toiling to create the world

They returned to the sun

Leaving behind their tools

Great structures of impossible weaving

Made of stone and strands of metal

Found all over the world

They think of the angels

And fold their front legs

They hiss in unison

Then the giant spider children

Go to giant spider school

Where they learn giant spider history

They learn of the Triangle Web Incident

The Black Widow Massacre

The pioneers of web-writing

The sinking of the giant spider titanic

(They just had one too,

Complete coincidence)

The Mantis Wars

And the authoritarian rule of

The first giant spider emperor

Who was eaten alive

By his eight giant spider children

Who formed a more equal society

With eight branches of government

Then they go to math class

And their giant spider teacher

Teaches them how to count in base-8

That’s 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,10

They do giant spider math

Grow their giant spider brains

And some day they graduate

From giant spider school

And get a giant spider job

Have some giant spider kids of their own

Grow old and die whispy

Dry up and be eaten by the young

At this point in time

If you are a giant spider

Life is pretty good

terraform

Back in the 90s

There was a movement on mars

Spearheaded by settlers

Based near Elysium Mons

And their contemporaries

Back on Earth

Their goal was

To terraform the red planet

Change the atmosphere

Build massive nuclear cloud seeders

And create an earth-like climate

So that people could live on the surface

Without helmets or rebreathers

Or any safety equipment at all

Conservative factions rallied

Crying that it was against natural order

Pointing to the current state

Of our own climate at the time

Still growing hotter each year

Despite our switch to clean energy

But the vision of a green mars

Was alluring to many

And they secured the funding

To begin experiments in the atmosphere

Trying to thicken it and add oxygen

It was very expensive

And very energy intensive

They saw early signs of success

But then one of the reactors

Began malfunctioning

Before they were able to

Shut it down and recalibrate

It ignited, starting a chain reaction

The entire settlement was lost

There were no survivors

And the dream of a green mars

Died with them

Other settlements focused on

Improvements to their habitat structures

And eventually developed

An impressive tunnel network

Full of breathable air

Connecting the existing settlements

But nobody returned to Elysium Mons

And by the early 20s

We had all but forgotten terraforming

The dream of transforming a planet

Into paradise

Transforming it into Earth

By now that dream seems impossible

The air here has filled with smoke

Such that offworld communication

Is nearly impossible

We haven’t heard from Mars

In three years now

Even if we had the resources

Our governments are weak

And we have more pressing concerns

Than paradise in the heavens

The climate has become vengeful

We acted to fix our mistakes

But we knew it was too late

By the time we had reached

Net zero carbon globally

We had suffered greatly

Each year upon year it grew hotter

Summers became unlivable

We would huddle inside

And pray the heat would break

For long enough

That some brave soul could trek

And get us more rations

Weather events grew worse

And more and more frequent

By the 40s the wildfires

Which each year burned longer

Began burning year round

The skies became permanently gray

The air thick and choking

We lost contact with satellites

Our infrastructure crumbled

We’ve adapted

But it seems we’re never ready

For the next wave of trouble

Last i heard there’s a typhoon near India

That’s been pouring nonstop

For six months

Some think that is a mercy

Compared to the sweeping droughts

Even when it does rain

The water is opaque from the smoke

It must be treated extensively

Before it is safe to use

The group I’m with

There’s maybe fifty of us

We have become nomadic

We’re searching for information

All we can get

Some of us used to be teachers

Doctors engineers and farmers

We’ve just had a rough winter

Lost some good people

We’re on our way to florida

The state has been mostly abandoned

It’s flooded and dangerous

But we need to reach Cape Canaveral

That’s our best shot

We’re looking for the plans

The ones that failed on mars

We’re going to terraform Earth

We’re going to make it like it was

Before we fucked it up

Paradise

A livable world

alley

I’m in the alley

Taking pictures of interesting trash

I find it interesting

Looking at trash

There’s a blockbuster dvd

Of The Help from 2011

A bunch of packets of soy sauce

A broken porcelain doll

Half of an orange

And half of an orange Sunkist

A device with unknown

Function or origin

Broken beyond repair

Old furniture

Coming and going

And the rats of course

They’re here too

I get some pushback on this

But I’m glad they’re here

They’re alive

Which is very important

If you can’t get that

Well you might not

Belong in this alley

Because this alley is alive

And that’s very important

lovedog

Love is an old dog

Who lays his heavy bones

Gently on the hardwood floor

When you come home

He lifts his eyelids and brows

Like they weigh thirty pounds

He looks at you with those

Big dark eyes

Full of all the ways he sees you

You are his parent and his child

You are his friend and his companion

You are bigger than the world

And yet here you are, in it

He stirs and rises

His skin hangs down towards the floor

As if it hasn’t stopped laying yet

He shuffles over to you

Slowly swinging his little tail

His nails click on the floor

He stops at your feet

And gazes up at you

From under all that heavy skin

Under all that time that passed

He looks up at you with adoration

You scratch his head between the ears

His eyes close and mouth opens

He’s in heaven

Gets so caught up in it

He plops back down to the floor

Where you meet him

To scratch his belly and tell him

How good he’s been

He lets out a soft whine

Telling you something

You already know by heart

With all of his body

All that he is

He loves you back

three legged

Bumped into a guy

Walking his dog

I said oh sorry excuse me

He said

Unprompted

Yeah well my dog has three legs

As you can see

As far as legs go

He’s got three left

My ex wife

She took it in the divorce

The fourth leg

See we got this dog

As a puppy

When we were madly in love

And then we got divorced

Stuff happened before that

But stuff always happens

And then you get divorced

Least as far as I’ve seen

She didn’t want to leave

Well she did

She wanted to leave me

But not the dog or the house

Or the pictures on the wall

See she always looked

Really good in photos

Better than in person

Don’t get me wrong

She’s beautiful

Always has been

But there’s something where

She looks much better

I’m a still moment in time

Than she ever does in motion

I never photographed well

My eyes are half closed

Or the angle is weird

I don’t know

Point is we got all these pictures right

Framed hung on the wall

The wall of the house we’re selling

On account of

We don’t love each other

And we have to get divorced

So she’s going down the hall

Cutting them all in half

She says gruffly

Here’s your half

Here’s mine

And she’s running through the house

Doing this to everything

So now I’ve got this pile

Of pictures of me

That don’t quite do me justice

And she’s got a pile of pictures

That don’t quite show her clearly

This bums me out

So I go out to walk the dog

This dog here

Only at this point

He’s got all his legs

So picture this dog

But with one more leg

Right where his no-leg is now

So i get back and

She’s got this crazed look

She’s got big garden shears

She says she just read

Her half of the Bible

There’s a story about

King Solomon

Who cut a baby in half

So everyone could be happy

She wants me to hand her the leash

I say

Well he’s mostly my dog

I’m the one who feeds him

I’m the one who walks him

I’m the one who gives him a bath

And takes him to the vet

She says

She picked him out

Which isn’t really even true

We did it together

She gets real sad looking

She says

She just wants something

To remember him by

So she pushes me down

And grabs the dog

And chops off his foot

I rush him to the animal hospital

And the animal doctor

Takes him in for animal surgery

The animal nurse tries to calm me down

But I’m pissed off

That was my favorite foot of my dog

Now he has to learn to walk

All over again

And he did

Look at him go

I don’t think he even knows

That anything’s different now

Except sometimes he goes diagonal

Other than that

It’s all the same to him

He loves his life

Look at him smiling

Anyways i gotta go

Looks like he’s gonna poop

And i have to go pick it up

Can’t leave poo on the ground

That’s bad manners

Nice to meet you

I’m Nick by the way

Then we waved

And walked away

pink tandem bicycle

a man riding alone

on a pink tandem bicycle

you may think he looks silly

wrong

you are wrong

he looks cool as hell

he looks ready for anything

if someone needs a ride

well he has a seat for them

right behind him

on his pink tandem bicycle

which can go anywhere

by the way

it can go anywhere

a car can go

and even some other places

he can ride it at night

when its really really hot

he can create a breeze

out of himself and the

stagnant steaming air

this guy has it figured out

he's living large

on his pink tandem bicycle

fuck the sun

Global warming isn’t real

The earth isn’t getting warmer

The sun is

The sun is getting hotter

Which makes it feel warmer here

But that’s outside of our control

It’s not any humans fault

It’s those damn sun people

Up there making things worse

You know

They aren’t civilized like us

We’re made out of solid matter

We have an economy

We wear clothes

And pay taxes

They’re all made out of fire

Burning hydrogen and helium

Flaming trails of ions

Radiation and energy

It’s disgusting

They’re nude

All the time

Even if they had the modesty

To cover up

The clothes would burn right off

Those god damned sun people

They’re up there

Wasting away

They don’t work

They just sit around

Partying and getting high all day

Mooching off of the other planets

Did you know

Earth is the only planet

That’s even making a profit?

Everyone else is

Losing value every single quarter

It’s despicable

Some of them at least try

Like mars with its rover program

But not the sun

No the sun thinks it’s too good for that

All of its people forgot what it means

To put in a hard days work

To clock in and generate value

It makes me sick

There on the sun

They aren’t like us

They’re different

Wasteful and shortsighted

They keep cranking up the heat

Cranking up the heat

Because they like it

It feels good to them

In their unnatural way

If God wanted people

To be made from ionized gas

He would have called it

Plasma and Eve

But He didn’t

He wanted us to be made

Out of carbon

And drive cars and trucks

That’s why He wrote it all down

I don’t think it will ever stop

They’re gonna keep heating up

Making the star hotter and hotter

Because they like the way it looks

The way it feels to be burning

Until the whole system is swallowed up

They’re gonna go supernova

They know it

We told them

All of our scientists

They ran the numbers

Looked at the trends

If they don’t stop it soon

The whole damn thing

Will blow up

But they don’t give a fuck

They just keep on burning

It gives them some kind of

Sick twisted sexual pleasure

It’s disgusting

What they could be doing

Is taking bids from planets

On what temperature to be

So that they’d be in

The habitable zone

They could be making trillions

Naturally as the market leaders

We earthlings would be inclined

To control the majority share

We could turn it up in the winter

When we get too chilly

And down in the summer

When it’s too damn hot

Like it is now

No, instead

Those no good sun fuckers

Are going to blow everything up

All the hydrogen and helium

All of mercury venus and mars

The gas giants

The asteroids

Uranus

Little Pluto

Cousin Neptune

And of course

Earth

And it’s most precious resource

Money

glutton

The hunger

Oh the hunger

This stomach

Will be the death of me

Soon as I’ve had my fill

And keep eating

Soon as I’ve cleared my plate

I still hunger

Salivate over all

That could be here

Just within reach

Of my lips

I bite gentle

And it melts in my mouth

So tender

So savory

I could eat my weight

I could eat it all

But then i would

Inevitably starve

So a small morsel

For today

For this week

That’s what I’ve been rationed

And by god I’ll make it last

undestroyer ii

Entropy reversed

Reserved for times like this

When the weather is weird

Unstrike the match

Uncrack the egg

Unbecome yourself

The river flows backwards

When it reaches the cliff

It falls into the sky

Canoe it into outer space

Where fast approaching

Is all the matter blasted out

From the big bad bang

And the littler ones too

It all squishes together

Like it was at first

But now it’s alive

Awake and vengeful

All things destroyed

By will or ignorance

Will be undestroyed

By this backwards force

Burning cold

Rising fall

Centrifugal

Centripetal

It’s centered

Here in this placetime

Swinging outwards

Smashing it together

You are your father now

And he is his

You are your mother now

And she is hers

Division multiplied

Across shattered surface

The mother of water is air

The mother of stone is fire

Great great grandma hydrogen

All nails unhammered

All stones unturned

All ships unsunk

All minds unempty

All stomachs unfull

Bullets unshot

Blood unbled

Something loving

Some living breathing thing

Like a creator god

Shapes the world

It destroys destruction

It eats heat and light and energy

It is small and magnetic

In your blood

Dendrites and forests

You and universe

Fused together

As one big thing

Which stomps and wrecks

And burns and floods

And leaves the planet healthy

It is deterministic

Gravity’s arc always pulled

All the pieces into place

Here so that it would be

The great and horrible

Big and bad

Mean and green

Rough and tough

Hot and cold

Big and small

Near and far

Wet and dry

Past and present

New and ancient

Dull and shining

Full and empty

Real and surreal

Fact and fiction

Laminar turbulent

Problem solution

Question answer

Forwards backwards

Inside outside

Undestroyer

crash

Someone hit my sister

With their car

They were driving a big truck

And smashed into the car she was in

So now

I have to destroy every car on earth

I have to smash them into dust

I have to shoot all the dust

With a gun

And a flamethrower

Then launch it into the sun

Then blow up the sun

Then create a singularity from

The blown up sun

Sucking the entire solar system

Into a black hole

Then i have to increase gravity

One trillion times

Until the entire universe is

Sucked down the spout

And then in the black hole

As a new universe is born

I will destroy it

Then i kiss my sister on her forehead

Ask her how her bruises feel

And stomp off to find the guy who was driving

black mirror

What if

You came home

And mom was cooking dinner

She lifts up the pot lid

To show you

She’s cooking iPhones

Cellphones for dinner

With a microplastic garnish

Then you look up at mom

She’s a cellphone too

You go to the bathroom

Yeah don’t even ask

The toilets a phone

It has a notification

You have one unread poop

You go to wash your hands

And the sink

Has freaking emojis on it

Hot water 🤣

Cold water 🤨

You raise your gaze

To your reflection

The mirror is dark

Like some kind of

Black mirror

Like seeing yourself reflected

In the dead screen

Of one of your devices

A moment to see

How you look at the thing

That looks at you

The mirror lights up

You just got a text

It’s from yourself

It says help

I’m trapped in the phone

And phone mom

Is cooking me for dinner

You turn on do not disturb

You sit down for dinner

The table is a big cell phone

The plate is a big cell phone

You eat your dinner

Lie down in your cell phone bed

And dream of

Giant iPhones

Who keep people

In their pockets

And are hopelessly

Addicted

To the way it feels

To squeeze them

You wake up

Scary dream

Run to the bathroom

Look in the black mirror

Yep

You’re a iphone

Car of the future

The car of the future

Has solar powered headlights

It’s got a modular suspension

So if there’s traffic

You can rise up above it

Drive right over

All the slow people

In their antiquated cars

It has big huge fans

That blast ice cold air

So you can beat the heat

While you drive down the street

Drive the dog around the block

Drive to the park

Which is of course

A paved area where you can

Park the car

Sit there and rev the engine

For a few hours

Then drive home

Sit in the garage

And figure out where to go next

The car of the future has

Heat seeking missiles

Spikes on the front grill

It has satnav gps

Patented user interface

Screens on every surface

So you can watch movies

No matter where you’re looking

The tires are wide tread

They don’t get stuck on mud

Or cracks in the pavement

Or rubble or flesh and bone

It drives itself

Just punch in your destination

And it will plow a straight line there

Through buildings and fields

Rivers and trees

Anything audacious enough

To be in the way

The car of the future is buried

Thirty feet beneath acidic soil

Next to all of its brothers

Full of stones and dirt

Abandoned and remembered

By the heat in the air

The sour taste of the sea

Corroded and full of holes

Buried by erosion

By years and years

And years and years

Of getting around fine

Without burning dead matter

And going really fast

Sitting idle til the hill collapses

Til the valley floods

Til the river recedes

Til the plants take root

Til the fire burns through

Til the plants grow back

Til they die from drought

Until there’s nothing here

To mark the graves

Of all the cars sitting in

Permanent traffic

Beneath the ground

Where they belong

The car of the future

Waits for you

Parked in your mind

Ready to get you

To the place

We’re all going

love is stored in the balls

Love from the heart

Feels like

BUMP BUMP BUMP

blood pumping

Skipping a beat

Feels like being pulled

By a string tied

To your sternum

Gently but quickly

Towards the thing

That you love

It’s intuition

Familiar instinct

Heavy and swinging

Like a pendulum

Rhythm and melody

Musical refrain

Calm steady rain

Like someone else

Declared it

And you discovered

It was true

Love from the head

Feels like

This makes sense

It all adds up

I did the math

And i love you

You and me fit

Right here where

We press together

The angle matches

Right at the corner

Where we go smooth

It just makes sense

To rest my head

This close to yours

Compatible and complimentary

Yin and Yang

Green and red

It finds you when

You start explaining

A moment together

And there’s just so much there

Love from the stomach

Feels like

Waiting for a shoe to drop

Nervous over something new

Smiling too much

Or not enough

Or not the right smile

Stomach love is early

Hungry and impatient

Selfish and indulgent

Lustful and unwise

And fun as hell

The way it crushes

Ties knots in itself

Hard to explain

Easy to understand

Missing someone

With limited information

Inferring and assuming

Tracing the outline

Where they touched you last

And wondering

When it can happen again

like mike

Fight and win

Like Mike did

Fisticuffs at the little park

Where he grew up

Fighting and winning

Losing and quitting

Hearing Flo stomp downstairs

Wearing a helmet to dinner

Poking at Barbara

Until she poked back

Then not speaking

For years

Can’t fight that one out

Not the way he wanted to

Making someone cry

Doesn’t feel half as good

As knocking their lights out

Or so I’ve heard

Not fair

Not fair not fair

Who promised fair

Who told you

That any of this was fair

Might as well

Make it worse

spoils

To the victor

Go the spoils

They say

Victor?!

That guy made Frankenstein

What the hell do you think

He’s gonna do with spoils

He’s gonna sew them together

Imbue them with life

Then get too scared

To do anything with them

Then all of our spoils

For which we toiled

Will be spoiled

Sullied and soiled

They’ll need to be boiled

Greased and oiled

Wrapped and coiled

Hung up to dry

Then we can play kickball

Whoever wins

Gets to keep them all

But victor can’t play

He’s creepy

And he’s bad at it anyway

homecoming

Getting real tired

Staying up late

Staying up early

Holding the dog

Locking it outside

Having a scary dream

Where you hurt your dad

All the love in my heart

Is in one place on a map

And I’m headed there now

And I’m leaving there now

For some stupid reason

I’ve got an attitude

I see that train tracks

Frequently make straight lines

But i can’t see where it’s going

When I’m not looking

Out the window

It might start going sideways

East or west instead

That’ll make me nauseous

Sleeping and showering

In all kinds of places

Where I’ve been before

Getting dirty and clean

But my skin stays the same

If i grew a plant on my head

It might provide some shade

But I’d still have to water it

It might remind me

That I’m living too

I have roots and leaves

And if i don’t let the sun in

I’ll fucking dry up and die

I have too many coats

Stuffed in my duffel bag

They’re heavy but i need them

I prefer to travel light

Makes me feel like

I have everything i need

Like I’m home already

And all my stuff is there

silly goose chase

Silly goose alert

WARNING

there’s a silly goose

On the loose

Loose goose

Chase him

Catch him

Hold him down

And make that goose

Be serious for once

Get real goose

Stop acting so silly

Well great we lost him

I’ll look over there

You look under there

Under where?

Underwear!

Ha got you

Oh shit he’s the goose

He’s been the goose

The whole time

Duck duck silly goose

The ugly duckling

Was a silly goose

He was so funny

That the ladies didn’t mind

That he was uglier than

A very ugly duck

Wait

Maybe he was a swan actually

Either way

He was silly

Catch that goose i say

We have no room

To sanction such tomfoolery

He must be stopped

That wild loose silly goose

thing 3

There’s a guy at the station

Wearing a red shirt with a white circle

It says ‘Thing 3’

Like from Dr. Suess’ the cat in the hat

There’s an implication

That somewhere else in the world

There’s a Thing 1 and 2

But they are not here now

Was it just space that separates them

Or something more serious

Did they have a falling out

Was there violence

Was he rejected

For being the third thing

Or is he waiting here

For his family

And they’re wearing their shirts too

Unclear

But I’m here

To notice and speculate

I hope i get to see that big ass cat

The one who wears the hat

high horse

Gave my pony growth pills

Big supplements

To embiggen him

I’m gonna show

Those no good rascals

Down at the saloon

I’m gonna have the

Tallest horse in town

I’m gonna need a ladder

Just to get up on him

Feed him twenty carrots

In a single bite

Up atop my high horse

I’ll roll a cigarette

Take a long drag

Blow smoke rings

And they’ll see me saunter in

Towering above them

With their little baby horses

I’ll grin and tip my hat

Pull up front the saloon

Whistle through the swinging doors

When all the fellas come out

To see my big ass horse

I’ll swing my leg over

Leap from the back of my steed

And break both my legs

They’ll rush me to the doctor

Who will give me whiskey

And shoot me in the head

This is cowboy times

So medicine is simple

I’ll pass over into blackness

Up to that

Big horse in the sky

wraith

Cold blood

Hot blood

Regardless

He’s dead

Choked dead

By my own two

Hands

He came at me

But he didn’t mean it

Least i don’t think

But he deserved it

I knew long ago

I’d be killing him

When he looked he

Dead

In the eyes

He smiled laughed

Coughed in his hand

He was a violent man

Though not as violent

As me it would seem

He was violent of mind

Full of violent beliefs

Hatred like pus

Filling his deep pores

Kept his anger

Behind his teeth

Such that his smile

Smelled septic

Rotten air floated out

Of his living carcass

Standing proudly

On the backs of

Many poor souls

If he had his way

There’s no telling

How long they’d suffer

Before someone stood up

And choked him to death

Now there’s no wonder

No suffering at all

Save for that

Brought to me

By the purple wraith

That hangs over me now

Pain everywhere i go

Stinging smoky pain

Burned into my

Nose and eyes

Mouth and lungs

The wispy shape

Spins there across me

In this tiny shackled cell

Smiling that same rotten smile

I shout at it

And the smile grows larger

I’ve got this sick feeling

That I’m going to die

Stuck in this cell

Across from the man i killed

Maybe we both

Deserve it

afterimage

Man playing guitar

Singing a song he wrote

I wanna pull him aside

And tell him

You remind me of

Someone i knew who died

Like i looked at him

Bathed in bright light

And when i close my eyes

Here you are

Burned into my eyelids

When i open my eyes

It’s just dark now

But i close them

There he is

Afterimage ghost

Singing on stage

I feel like

If i could get him to

Understand

I could talk right through him

Reach the other side

Of the dark

But i know

That isn’t how it works

He sees me staring at him

Makes a face like he knows

Tips his hat and refrains

That isn’t how it works

And it just ain’t fair

mr sexual guy

Oh shit

Here he comes

Mister good at sex

I heard he had sex

With a woman

And she liked it

I heard he has two penishes

And a vorgina

I heard he lovingly caresses

His lovers

And makes them feel safe

I heard he spits on it

Yeah i heard that too

I heard that he spits on it

I heard he made a guy cum

Just from having sex with him

I heard he can make you horny

Just by getting you naked

And kissing you

I heard he’s hot

Under all those clothes

I heard that body is crazy

I heard he does butt stuff

I heard he does hand stuff

I heard he does sex stuff

With all parts of his body

Oh yeah well

I heard he fucks doggy style

I heard he fucks kitty style

I heard he fucks monkey style

I heard he fucks fish style

I heard he fucks regular style

I heard he fucked your mom

And she liked it

I heard he fucked your dad

And it changed him

I heard he masturbates

No hands no feet

No shirt no shoes no service

I heard he gives road head

While he’s driving

I heard he had sex in a plane

I heard he had sex with a plane

I heard his thing is big

And it has a good shape

I heard he says BAZINGA

When he busts

I heard-

What did you say?

I said he says BAZINGA when he busts

That can’t be right

I’m not saying it’s right

It’s just what i heard

You heard that this guy

Mr Good at Sex

Sexual guy

Guy of many many

Sexual encounters and exploits

You heard that

When he cums

He says BAZINGA

Like Sheldon

Off of Bing Bang Theory?

Yeah somebody told me that

No way that’s fucking crazy

You made that shit up

I’m just telling you what i heard

And what i heard

Was BAZINGA

adventurers guild

Just joined a new guild

They said i could end up

With a lot of treasure

If i play my cards right

They set me up with

A group of travelers

There’s seven of us now

Three of them

Have the same name

One is big and jolly

The other is medium and mean

The third doesn’t hang around much

But he’s tall and skinny and quiet

They are the oldest of the group

Sometimes they stand close

And bicker

And they look like

A three headed man

They handle the gold

And precious gems

The next eldest

Is younger than them by decades

Our de-facto leader

He is charming and hard working

With an underlying nervousness

That reveals his fear

That everything may fall apart

He keeps the group together

He makes the plans

Deals with quest givers

His right hand man

Is the newest to the group

Besides me

He’s got the coolest armor

He’s the guy we put up front

When we think we’re gonna fight

He’s quick witted and ambitious

Always playing tricks making jokes

But when he gets serious

You know it’s serious

Then we have our map guy

He’s the map guy

He has the map

And he charts the roads

Gets us to our destination

He never stops talking

Goes on long-winded tangents

About which king commissioned

This road to be built

Or who is the leading contender

In the jousting tourney this week

Sometimes we smack his helmet

So it rings around his head

And that shuts him up

For a minute or two

Lastly there’s me

I’m still finding my place

They’re tussling my hair

Calling me boy

Calling me lad

Giving me advice

On which weapons to use

And what skills i should learn

I write in my journal

After we’ve made camp for the night

About the journey we’ve made

I’m trying to learn some spells

But I’m not good at them

So i haven’t told anyone yet

But i think this group

Could use a mage

new quest

I must…

Make a website

I must make my own website

A website just for me

And i will

Stay tooned

just bought a billboard it says

Single ladies of the world…

I am MARRIED!

(But i CHEAT!!)

CALL ME!!!!!!!

garden

You can kill a plant

Easy

By not giving it water

And that actually feels better

Forgetful and neglectful

Than the alternative

Of over watering

Trying so hard

To get this plant

Everything it needs

Coming on too strong

Clingy and overbearing

That’s how you kill a plant

And it ruins you

It’s your fault

For not restraining

Overindulgence

Look at the wet soil

Knowing you flooded it

Pull the drowned weeds

Replant them in the sun

They just might recover

But you gotta be more careful

panick

Lately I’ve been feeling

Like everything is fine

Which has me really worried

What if I’m wrong

And i felt good

For no reason

Maybe i should panic

I should probably panic

It would probabaly be good

If i started to panic

Doesn’t matter why

Just do it

Quick

Before anyone notices

I’m chilling

what I’m smoking

I’m smoking that shit

That scared scarecrow

I’m smoking that shit

That made Bane put on the mask

I’m smoking that shit

That broke Batman’s back

I’m smoking that shit

That made joker laugh

I’m smoking that shit

That made jeepers creepers

I’m smoking that shit

Like zoinks scoob

I’m smoking that shit

Like jinkies

I’m smoking that shit

Made me split up

Look for clues

I’m smoking that shit

Like old man Jenkins

I’m smoking that shit

Made me remember

All my worries

I made up and forgot

I’m smoking that shit

Hurt my lungs

I’m smoking that shit

Smell bad

I’m smoking that shit

Make me hungry

I’m smoking that shit

Bad thoughtful

I’m smoking that shit

Makes me smoke more shit

I’m smoking that shit

That hurts

I’m smoking that shit

That hurts so bad

I’m smoking that shit

That i don’t even want

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Long time pooper

First time scooper

Save a cow

Milk a horseboy

I’m bringing colors back

Changing everything about my life

Because i met a girl with opinions

Just ate a cheez it

It’s doing crazy things to me

uncle Cro

My uncle cro magnon

Turns out he’s from ice times

Got frozen up

Til meemaw melted him

Now the way he

Bangs on rocks and grunts

It makes more sense now

I took him to the grocery store

And Sal impractical jokers was there

He had a bag over his head

He was suffocating

Q had to come over

And poke a hole in the bag

So he could breathe

Sal was tonight’s big loser

I got so caught up in the antics

I lost sight of Uncle

I found him in the freezer aisle

His protruded brow against the glass

Pawing at the frozen meats

He points at a large steak

Pounds his chest

He points to the steak

Then points back to himself

I open the freezer door

And he climbs in

He pushes the meat aside

And pulls the door shut

He looks at me

With sorrow in his eyes

Presses a hand over his heart

Then he gets frozen solid again

He wasn’t ready

For the way that things are now

He’s going to give it more time

Maybe when the freezer kicks off

And he thaws back out again

He will understand

What kind of world he’s in

awesome dream i have

Word don’t mean anything stupid

I got yelled at in a dream

Cuz i didn’t do my homework

And i didn’t rememorize

The right phrase to say

Whar they pointed at

The thing it was called

But i knew who it was

Just not the word

I threw a desk

And pencils everywhere

They made the sound

That many pencils make

Clattering to the floor ground

Kalacalkalankalananlkang

I woke up

Then i went back into the dream

To give them a peace

Of my mind

Spee language follows meaning

Like a scared little dog

Not the other way

Like a mischievous little dog

Guys like bill shake spear

Just made words up

New sflash jack ass

All words got made up

That’s how we know them now

So if i call it the wrong thing

Actually i didn’t

Actually I’m discovering language

Every minute i talk

I’m creating new words

I can’t think of a good one

Not right now

They smeared at me blankly

Then I cruck the door

Then i greap down the hall

All these gouse i seen before

I didn’t even bo my honework

Suod po but bouwers

Chae jha

Wake up nicely

Xhep it’s tuesday

glitch

It was only just a dream babe

Not real, just true

I’m from all over

Don’t you know by now

There’s something to behold

Behold it

Breathe it in

I’m ten feet tall

You’re shorter than that

You only seem to drag me down

When I’ve risen above

Next time you close your eyes

Listen to my movement

Couple things i didn’t say

Spiteful but real

I think your pictures ugly

And i didn’t like the song

Really in the first place

Before it went sour

Shuddered and fragmented

Glitched out and broke

Before that i thought

I don’t even like this

work talk

I’m a simple lunch guy

Ha haha ha

As long as you’re paying

Hahahahha

You’ve seen office space right

Mandatory viewing

If you’re an office worker

You have 45 regular hours

For last week

Should 5 of those be OVT?

There he is!

Good morning mister

Oh fucking Christ

I don’t want to be here

I don’t want to be here

I don’t want to be here

I don’t want to be here

But i am

Here

In the office

Chatting idly

Counting every second

Until i can leave

And breathe again

Mondays huh

Got a case of the Mondays

Uh oh

Looks like we’ve

Got a case of the Mondays

Over here

Am i right

re-incarnate

Live and die

And live again

All people come back

You just keep coming back

Until you’ve learned the lesson

Then once you’ve learnt it

You learn it again

A hundred times

Until you know by heart

What it is to be human

Then you die again

When you come back

This time

You’re some animal now

You could be a fly

And fly around

You could be a bird

And fly around

You could be a fish

And swim around

You could be a mole

Dig underground

You could be a bear

Eat berries

You could be a dog

Or a frog

Or a worm

Or snake

Or a turtle

Or a ferret

Or a fox

Or a lobster

There are many animals

But one of them

Will be you

Then you live this life

A thousand times

Some lives are painful

Some are short and sweet

Some are long and fulfilling

You repeat until you’re ready

Again again over over

Then you come back

As a mushroom

Every soul

Gets a turn as a mushroom

That’s just how it goes

What happens next

Is mushroom

Mushroom is cool

You will like it

Then you live a thousand years

Of being a plant

Blade of grass

Tall tree

Flowers

You know

Plants

They grow all over

Once that’s done

You become a germ

For a long time

Until something changes

Then what you are

Is just a drop of water

For a billion years

Or more

You fall

Pool

Evaporate

Fall pool

And they drink you

Sweat and piss you out

Into roots

Into clouds

Into oceans

Into rivers

You go all over

Until the sun swallows the earth

And then

You’re just energy

Burning

Expanding

Dissipating

And then you

Finally

Get to rest

Forever

bike-o

Back on my bike

New me new bike

Same feeling

I can go fast enough

That it feels good

Just moving

It’s hot

When i sweat

And she thinks so too

The sun grins at me

Obliged i return

The biggest grin

I can manage

Without looking false

I can get anywhere i need

I don’t even have to drive

There’s a place for me

A lane here

Where I’m expected

No one runs me over

Which is great

I hate being run over

bloodwell

The earth has blood

I drink it

Stained deep red black

Around my hands and mouth

It changes me

Makes me feral

Makes me stand and declare

I own this place

It belongs to me

The original sin

Invention of property

Build a wall around

Where I’ve tapped the vein

Where the earth bleeds out

This is my blood

You cannot have it

Not for free

Not like me

I drink deep

Gorge myself turbid gluttonous

Sloshing back and forth

Atop my very tall wall

Lined with razor barbed wire

Which slices any thirsty fool

Who dares try to climb

Their blood runs down the wall

Soaking into the earth

Diluting the pure bloodwell

I drink it all

Tap it dry

Suck from the dry soil

Nothing remains

No blood no water

My stomach bulges hurting

I trip and fall

Far down from the wall

I accelerate

Hit the ground hard and pop

Shedding blood all over

Everything bright red

The last sight i see

Red everywhere

And it all belongs to me

aminal

I can talk to animals

Like this

Hello bird

Hello squirrel

Hello worm

Hello rat

Hello doggy

Hello cat

Good morning to you all

They don’t call back

But they hear me

Slowly but surely

They learn the language

Even if they don’t understand

They know the words

Hello good morning

Farewell goodnight

I don’t need them to

But maybe someday

They’ll say something back

gum butt

I sat on gum

It got stuck to my shorts

Now i have gum on my shorts

And i don’t like it at all

I’m sticking everywhere i sit

And feeling gross about it

Now everyone who

Looks at my butt

Will know

How i sat in gum

person with a camera

She’s walking down the path

With a selfie stick

They’re crossing over the bridge

Wielding a canon eos t5 rebel

He’s taking a video

Of his family walking

On the beach

She’s stopped in her tracks

To take out her phone

And point it upwards

Capture something she saw

And save it for later

That’s the beautiful thing

When you see someone with a camera

You can tell they’re looking at the world

And they’re seeing something

That they want to share

Or save forever

I wish i could see

What they’re seeing

But I’m happy just knowing

That they’re seeing something good

the mind of a seagull

The mind of a seagull

Says squawk squawk squawk

It sees everything in yellow

Shimmering slivers of gold

Glinting off the sea at sunset

It sees the sand depressed

Around each webbed foot

Flicks it’s head around

Seeking discarded dinner

At the feet of all the people

It pecks at a pebble

Spits it out

And pecks again

Just in case

It’s wide eyes stare at me

Until i feel i have to look away

There’s something behind

Those yellow eyes

I just don’t know what it is

dog walker

The leash loose

Drags on the pavement

She’s slowing her pace

And he looks down at her

He smiles and stops

Reaches down to scratch

Her side and then

Between her ears

She looks up grinning

They do this every day

He starts walking again

And she does too

A little quicker than before

today

Today i woke up

With someone in my bed

I kissed her before she went to work

Then i shuffled to the kitchen

Poured myself a glass of water

Sat down in the living room

I put together two shelves

That i had bought from Lowe’s on Thursday

Then i showered

I called my dad

Just to talk

And check on him

I think he’s doing okay

I got on my new bike

Which i got from a pawn shop

So i could ride to guitar center

And get new strings

For my new 12-string guitar

Which i also got from the pawn shop

I got a little turned around

But it was a nice ride

The guitar guy was helpful

I felt satisfied with my trip

So i tied the shopping bag

To the bar on my bike

And i pedaled to the lake

I rode 5 miles along the shore

Smiling the whole way

Then i turned on a street

Which has the same name

As my boss

And i rode it back home

Where i sat on the couch

And struggled to restring my guitar

Luckily i had extras

Because i snapped three in the process

It sounds alright

I’m excited to practice more

Then i watched a bunch of Star Trek

And now I’m bored

And that’s what i did today

green

Yo, listen up here's a story

About a little guy

That lives in a green world

And all day and all night

And everything he sees is just green

Like him inside and outside

Green his house

With a green little window

And a green corvette

And everything is green for him

And himself and everybody around

Cause he ain't got nobody to listen to

I'm green

Da ba dee da ba di

Da ba dee da ba di

Da ba dee da ba di

Da ba dee da ba di

Da ba dee da ba di

Da ba dee da ba di

Da ba dee da ba di

I'm green

Da ba dee da ba di

Da ba dee da ba di

Da ba dee da ba di

Da ba dee da ba di

Da ba dee da ba di

Da ba dee da ba di

Da ba dee da ba di

I have a green house

With a green window

Green is the color of all that I wear

Green are the streets

And all the trees are too

I have a girlfriend and she is so green

Green are the people here

That walk around

Green like my corvette its in and outside

Green are the words I say

And what I think

Green are the feelings

That live inside me

fly1

There’s a fly in my home

I want it gone

It’s buzzing around

Like it owns the place

Boy does that piss me off

But it’s too quick

For me to catch him

Or squish him

So I’m running around

Like Walter white

Going crazy about this fly

I need to fold my laundry

But i can’t take my eyes

Off the black splotch

On the ceiling

Pulsing

Beating

Taunting me

Fuck you

Fucking

Stupid ass fly

my sister

My sister has a beautiful voice

I get tears in my eyes

When i hear her sing

I love her more than anything

She makes me feel safe

She is so much of me

When i feel small

She reminds me i am not

She brightens the world

I am so proud of her

She’s growing too

Just like me

Lately when i talk to her

She makes it hard

Not to love myself

Im just trying

To return the favor

destination

I am walking calmly

At a steady pace

Light and soft

Gentle and slow

From your spot

Out the window

Of a moving train

You may not see

I’m moving

But gradually

Deliberately

I will reach my

Destination

problem

I get quiet

My eyes dart around

Looking for a problem

Because i like to

Problems are fun for me

Gives me direction

Even if i can’t solve it

I can try to

Or just imagine

What it would take to fix it

Some problems don’t need fixing

Some problems aren’t problems

But

That’s not really the point

The point is that i like it

It makes me feel of use

Like I’m making something better

It’s a selfish thing

It makes me happy

So I’ve started making problems

Everywhere i go

Just so i can fix them

Or fixate on them

That’s what greases my gears

That’s what floats my boat

If you don’t like it

Well

Then we’re gonna have a problem

flashback

A skull inside my skull

A brain inside my brain

I feel it when i touch it

Every single day

I feel like such a mutant

Like something really strange

A wasp stuck in the window

Buzzing loud all day

Past and present-future

Figures made of clay

Chop them into pieces

Put them on a plate

Cook them up for dinner

Satiate the pain

Change the channel quickly

Before it loses shape

Close your eyes and whisper

Make it go away

pikmin 1

My pikmin

My brave little guys

They trusted me

They fucking trusted me

And i led them astray

Walked into the clearing

Then a big ass metal spider

Came down started stomping

Ten fifteen thirty-five dead

In an instant

But that wasn’t the end

By the time that spider fell

A hundred brave souls perished

Had i been more careful

More prepared more aware

We still would have lost some

But not on this scale

I don’t think I’ll ever be

The same as i used to be

I look into their little blank eyes

I know they know i failed them

I can’t play that game

For at least a few days now

Because i let those fuckers down

phone call for mister doo

Scooby doo 2002

Groundbreaking digital dog

Leaning up against you

Making you laugh

With your whole body

He’s playing the hits

He’s saying Ruh Roh Raggy

He’s laughing Rhehehehehee

Just like it used to be

When you watched him before

In cartoons on tv

Only he’s real now

He’s CGI

But that’s real enough

You can only tell

When the lighting is weird

They made him in 2002 after all

He’s younger than you are

He’s wearing a dress on the plane

But she still thinks he’s a dog

No dogs allowed on spooky air

Well you think that’s bullshit

You want him close

Even if you’re sitting with Fred

You wouldn’t leave him behind

This is Mr. Doo we’re talking about

That’s Scooby Doo, not Melvin

Who are you

To deprive him of a scooby snack

real science shit

There's a hundred doctors

in lab coats with goggles

they are gathered around

beakers and test tubes

writing equations and formulas

to try and get to the bottom

of the essential questions

which came first

the chicken or the egg?

if it was the chicken

how did it get born?

if it was the egg

who the hell laid it?

did people breed dogs

to be really itchy

because we liked petting them?

or did dogs breed people

to like scratching

because they were so damn itchy?

why can you kiss yourself in the mirror

but only on the lips?

what's the deal with airline food?

why do they call it an oven

when you of in the cold food

of out hot eat the food?

if I'm writing this

and you're reading it

who's driving the car?

green

I’m figuring out

That i have a favorite color

After twenty four years

I’m realizing i think green is awesome

So i bought a green towel

And a green shower mat

Three green rugs

Green lights

Green pillows and blankets

Green curtains

Green shoes and shirt

I’m sitting in all the green

And it makes me feel alive

The only thing that grows

In this forest is me

Did you know the human eye

Can see the most shades of green

Out of any color

And plants didn’t use to be all green

They were purple too

Back in the day

I paint the windows green

I let mold grow in the bathroom

Grass on the floor

Vines from the ceiling

All of it’s green

And that’s your favorite color

It’s mine

But it’s yours too

lake

This lake was carved by glaciers

A long long time ago

Scraping down the world

This shore was built from rubble

Just kind of long ago

After all the buildings burned down

They pushed them in the water

And put sand on top

There’s not sharks in the water

She assures me smiling

But i tell her I’m still scared

What happened to all the salt

They took it out

Because it tasted bad

The waves are big

I’ve seen bigger

But still they’re big

One smacks me in the face

And i go down

When i surface there she is

Thrown into me by another wave

We linger in the sudden contact

Then we got yelled at

By a woman in a boat

For swimming too close

To each other i think

Or maybe the metal breakers

Either way it’s funny

What’s she gonna do

Stop us?

We’re gonna get out of the water

Soon we will

After a hundred foot wave

Washes us up

And we put on our dry clothes

So they can be wet too

Even as we walk away

Off the sand onto pavement

I can feel the waves

Pushing us together

snail

Snails hatch from eggs

Then they eat the egg shell

To use the calcium

For their snail shell

Isn’t that miraculous?

If i get the chance

To come back after this

I think I’ll come as a snail

park

Moving air

Whisks the moisture from my skin

I am sweating doubtlessly

Under the heat of the sun

Ducks are angels

They have wings

Even the little ones

I don’t know what

It means to them

When i look them in the eye

But it means a lot to me

I feel i could step out onto

The surface of the water

And the lily pads would hold me up

I am light weightless

I have everything i need

On my person

I’m not worried for tomorrow

Because tomorrow

I will still be here

A fly lands on my arm

So i study it

Matte green with orange eyes

It rubs its rear legs together

Then returns to the air

Which blows my hair

In the same direction

As the waves and the tall plants

It feels good to be here

In the world

cousin

All the cousins of earth

Trees flowers rats bugs peoples

Would all look the same

To a space alien

Made of silicon

Or pure energy

Chain reactions of ionized gas

So when i see a goose

I’m like

Hi cousin

And the goose is like

Honk honk

And the tree is like

. . .

(That’s the sound of wood)

I whisper to the little bug

Did you know

That all of this started

From two brothers

Who were different?

That happened a lot of times

And then

One of them was me

And one of them was you

The bug makes a noise

So small i can’t even hear it

But i can tell it’s profound

I tell my cousins

Yeah i don’t know

Why I’m so fixated

On this idea

I think it could be

Because i feel so at odds

With the way people act

Like it’s only us here on earth

It feels so empty when I’m inside

And the only living things are people

Every day when i leave work

I step outside and smile

Because I’m back with all my cousins

Family reunion

I just wish they felt the same

But i get it

Everybody got that one cousin

Who commits unspeakable atrocities

Mass extinction for no damn reason

We love you but you’re crazy

We say

But the love is mostly

Out of obligation

surf

In the words of Blade from Blade

Some motherfuckers

Are always trying to ice skate uphill

Struggling for no good reason

Piss in their face from

Pissing into the current

Razor burn from

Cutting against the grain

Going against the flow

Resisting when it’s futile

Guy on the beach

Getting slapped in the mouth

Over and over by the salty waves

He never turns and rides it in

He kicks and fights it

Swimming perpendicular to shore

While the riptide sweeps him out

He’ll drown or get eaten

By Meg from The Meg and The Meg 2

Because he’s stupid

Had he asked me

I would’ve told him

Don’t fight the wave

Don’t be acted upon by the wave

Become the wave

Be the thing that moves

Not the thing that is moved

In other words

Learn to surf

walk

Forgive me

For the tone

Of my quiet

I’m in a place that

You’ve never been

Thinking of you

Listening to an old song

With ears unpulled unpinched

I feel good

Walking drawn to whatever

Is over there

The sign says no smoking

So i don’t

The moon is orange

And i don’t even try

To figure out why

I tried to pray today

It didn’t work

But i tried

When i saw the lightning bugs

Flashing on and off

Angels peered down at me

Or at the rabbit in the road

One of us was blessed

One of us was

Just out walking

virus

Doc

There’s something wrong with me

When i watch a sad movie

My eyes start watering

My face starts convulsing

I shake and feel small

Lonely and sad

Can you give me something

To help

To stop this condition

Doctor

Another symptom

When i go out into the world

Something feels wrong

The world

Which is normal and ordinary

Seems cruel and unjust

Full of suffering

And this weird feeling

Sticks with me

The work I’m doing

Which is important

Feels aimless and arbitrary

I feel like I’m wasting my time

Is there a pill for this

To stop me from feeling

These unnatural ways

When i cut my skin it bleeds

When i bite my tongue it hurts

Why doctor

What is the name of this disease

Oh no

It can’t be

I’ve come down with a case

Of

Woke Mind Virus

L

sniff

Been sniffing more

Trying to get better at smelling

Sometimes i feel it’s working

Two guys sitting next to me

We’re smoking a joint

And i could tell it was weed

Just from the smell

When they got off

Another woman sat down

Got out a big tube of sanitizer

Sprayed it in her hands

And breathed in deep

I smelled that too

When the air is hot

It smells like piss under the stairs

When it rains

Or it’s going to

I can smell the smell

Of the rain or what caused it

I burn a candle

And i can tell what flavor

With only my nose

Trying to use my senses more

Might as well

I won’t have them forever

You never nose

blocks

My mom told me

When i was young

I was good at seeing patterns

I’d notice them everywhere

Call them out

Explaining them

In places she hadn’t seen them

I guess that’s my function

That’s what the brain is for

After all

It created itself because

Patterns repeat

If you can learn them

You can anticipate

What comes next

The sun rises every morning

Sets every evening

The earth spins and it revolves

Things live and grow and die

The same similar

But new

All numbers are rational

If you write down all the digits

Entropy increases

In predictable ways

It all spirals

Through space

In stripes and colors

Through time

In sequence and rhythm

I was little

Playing with blocks

And my mom believed me

When i told her

How the patterns repeated

Blue green yellow red

Now I’m less little

And she believes me

When i tell her

The patterns are repeating

I’ve noticed a trend

I’ve seen how things are

I don’t know what’s coming next

But i can anticipate it

I know that

Everything’s yellow now

And red comes next

drywall

There’s drywall in the basement

Whenever I’m feeling angry

I go and punch a hole in it

Then i look into the hole

I put my face against it

And scream

When I’m feeling happy

I punch another hole

And then a big row of holes

To make a smiley face

When I’m sad

I punch the wall a lot

One for each tear

As it leaves my eye

When I’m in love

I punch holes

In the shape of a heart

When I’m lonely

I kiss the wall

When I’m horny

I fuck the wall

When I’m tired

I sleep the wall

When I’m hungry

I eat the wall

When I’m thirsty

I drink the wall

When I’m small

I big the wall

When I’m big

I small the wall

When I’m nervous

I punch the wall

I punch the wall

I punch the wall

Any time i want to

I punch the wall

I punch the wall

If I’m feeling nothing

I go to Lowe’s

I get supplies

I patch the wall up

Then i punch a big hole in it

And start feeling again

playdoh

There used to be this guy

Called play-doh

And what he did

Is he grabbed three guys

And he locked them in a cave

He lit a big fire

So they could see shadows

First they saw three figures

Guy number one said

That must be me

When i raise my arm

So does he

Guy number two said

That one is me

Look at his huge muscles

Guy number three said

Duhhhh I’m stupid

Then playdoh got creative

Started doing shadow puppets

He did a dog pretty easy

With just one hand

A frog with both hands

A bunny and a turkey

He left for a minute

To go to hobby lobby

Came back with

Paper cutouts of cars

And buildings and trees

He made a whole shadow world

He whispered

This is real

Guy number one said

This is real

Guy number two said

Yup I’m pretty sure that

This is real

Guy number three said

Duurrrrrrr

Aren’t we locked in a cave

I’m stupid by the way

Then playdoh

Hit him on the head with a rock

Killed him dead

And the other guys

Got scared of the shadow

And for some reason

Everybody thought playdoh

Was cool after this

I don’t know man

I just live here

dream date

She came over

In a snowmobile

With her new boyfriend

I couldn’t find my shoes

And my mom was yelling at me

I was yelling back

My sisters went outside

We were all going somewhere

As soon as i found my shoes

But they were getting impatient

The new boyfriend seemed nice

He said he’d warm up the car

Which he drove separately

She asked to pull the snowmobile

Into the garage

It was the same color purple

As the shutters were painted

It was pretty so we both stopped

To take a picture

I wanted to ask her what happened

Since i was the new guy

But it seemed in poor taste

I couldn’t remember

Making these plans

But I’d be damned

If i wasn’t gonna keep them

The car got stuck in the snow

The boyfriend told me something

About how my moms plants

Needed landscaping

And the shutters needed replacing

It rubbed me the wrong way

I guess he was looking for work

It seemed rude

After they left i realized

I never knew

Why that bridge burned

In the first place

Buts it’s been about a year

Guess I’ll never know

sun

Back before they invented the sun

All the people ran around blind

Bumping into walls and stuff

They just didn’t know any better

Hadn’t thought of light quite yet

Ask your great great great great

Great great great great great great

Great great great great great great

Great great great great great great

Great great great great great great

Great great great great great great

Great great great great great great

Great great grant great great great great

Great great grandfather he’ll tell you

Bout how dark it was back then

But as soon as they invented the sun

Everyone went nuts

They were getting sunburn

They were staring at it all day long

Using magnifying glasses to kill ants

And generally just looking around

To see what stuff looked like

Because everything used to be

Black darkness shape without color

And now they had green and yellow

And other colors too such as blue

Probably more than that but

I think they invented some of them

Later after the sun wasn’t new anymore

Well pretty much nothing was the same

After they put that big fireball

Up in the sky so we could see stuff

I think i like it

But it’s weird because

People didn’t use to have it

And they got on fine

Now you don’t really have a choice

It’s up there

Whether you’re looking or not

single

Last winter

I was restless

So in the evening

I put on my big coat

Walked to the park

I left the path

Following my heart

To a small pond

I had been to before

There were five ducks

Swimming in cold water

Three drakes two hens

Two couples

And a single duck

The couples took turns

Dunking under water

Pecking at the bottom

While their partner

Watched their back

The single drake

Chewed at his wing

And flapped it wildly

He must have been

Injured or something

Every so often

He’d swim towards

The other ducks near shore

Swimming side by side

He’d get too close

And they’d chase him off

Again and again

He tried to get close

To one of the hens

And was chased off

To the center of the pond

Where he’d peck and flap

His injured wing

Splash water on it

As if that did anything

He was alone

But i was too

ghost

All this

Pent up rage

The angst you carry

Heavy on your shoulders

It’s got to go somewhere

When your body stops

So all your lasting feelings

Turn translucent

Float around

All your old places

Ectoplasm memories

Splattered where

You used to sit

Used to sleep

Used to ball your fist and shout

Nothing but an afterimage

An impression of what was

Stuck in a loop

Continuing your cycles

That’s the scary part

Nothings really changed

dogs hate money

Sorry doggy

I can’t take you on a walk

I have to leave you here

Alone in the house

There’s an economy out there

That i have to contribute to

Or other men

Will commit violent acts

Against the both of us

I hope you don’t get lonely

Staring out the window

Watching the cars speed by

I’m up there in the office

Looking out the window too

Thinking of you all day

melon

Red

Not the kind that hurts

Sunburn in the summer

Dripping chlorine

On the hardwood floor

Reach up on to the counter

Red

In red hands

Sticky on small fingers

Running down the chin

Mixing with the water

Dripping on the floor

Pink

A bit thinner

Mom raised no quitter

Leave nothing to waste

Eat it all to the green

It’s mostly water after all

White

Still chewing

Still scraping it clean

Eat it all to the green

Pitch the smile in the trash

And reach up for another

Green

Back out to the pool

Heat on little feet

Slip drop the red angle

Smash onto the ground

The ants worship the pyramid

Red

other news

Hottest day in

One million trillion years

Is gonna be

Next Wednesday

You’ll die if you

Even think about the sun

There’s ten thousand new wars

And all of them are really really bad

All the good guys are dying

All the bad guys don’t exist

They just made a new law

Whoever smelt it dealt it

That’s legally binding

And you can get sent to

A prison on a boat in the ocean

For saying it wasn’t you

Who farted

Also all the teams lost in sports

Especially the one you root for

In other news

I’m sweating

cicada

A cicada just tried to fly into my ear

I yelped and swatted at it

Had it gotten in there

It probably would have stayed

For like five or seven years

Depending on the kind of cicada

It would have sounded like

Weeeoooweeeeoooweeeoooo

In my head every night in summer

I’d have to shrug my shoulders

And sing along with them

Weee ooo weee oooo weee ooo

Actually maybe that would rock

Come back cicada

You can go into my ear

steve again

I spoke too soon

He just started pulling

Photos up on his phone

Of girls in bikinis

And waitresses at twin peaks

This is supposed to be poems

But i gotta talk about Steve

This guy is nuts really

steve update

Ok

We went out to lunch today

And the woman we interviewed last week

Has just accepted the job

Will start on

September 11th

Yeah

So we’re having lunch

Pizza

And this topic comes up

Immediate reaction

From our friend Steve

Is

Oh boy we better read up

On that harassment training

Then we’re talking about hooters again

Obviously

They’re talking about

Girls boobs

In this pizza place

They’re talking about

How technically

Hooters is the closest restaurant

They’re saying

When they went

To celebrate Nicks engagement

That they weren’t impressed

With the boobs

Of the women there

I wonder

If i look

As pissed off as i am

I forget

Because i am blessed

With so many women in my life

And men who are normal

That many men

In this fucked up world

Really hate women

And do not view them as people

Humbling

Sobering

Well

At least come September

I won’t be alone in this office

There will be

One other person here

Who doesn’t hate women

Hopefully

gloom

Well I’ll be honest

I’m fixated on it

But i think I’m justified

And if we give it some time

I’ll be vindicated

By everything getting worse

Lucky me

rat under cone

There’s so much work to do

If we want to be ready

To face the consequences

Of our worst actions

But instead they keep us busy

Generating profit

It’s making me feel so sick

I wouldn’t mind

Wasting all my time

If it was wasted in the name

Of anything but the bottom line

For 10 hours a day

I dress and act

Like someone I’m not

Who cares about

Things i do not

And its wearing away at me

Its my own fault

For choosing this path

But i haven’t found

A quicker way

Of getting the money i need

This morning

Walking to the train

I saw a rat run

And hide under a traffic cone

I felt jealous

Google Earth

Was feeling homesick

And nobody gave me

Nothing to do today

So i went on google earth

Drove down all my old streets

Visited my friends

And some people

I don’t see anymore

They’re all here

In my computer

In the scale model

Of the world

Scaled down too

So they can fit

Somebody walked by

Asked me why

I was playing games

I said I’m not

This isn’t a game to me

bug angel

When you die

If you were good

Your spirit leaves your body

You get a pair of white wings

A golden halo above your head

And this goes for all

Anything god made

If it was good

Gets to become an angel

little green men

Out from the flying saucer

Here come the

Little green men

They are holding up peace signs

They only have three fingers

But it looks like a peace sign

The government has gathered

To greet them and make contact

But the little green men

Walk right past

The secretary of space

With his hand outdrawn

Past the army guys

And the crowd of reporters

They waddle up the lawn

To the top of the hill

And they start talking

To a damn tree

These guys

These little green men

They don’t give a fuck about us

They’re hugging the tree

They’re laughing

They seem to be having

A really good time

The tree seems happy too

They take some seeds off the ground

And they hop back on the saucer

Never to be seen again

second kingdom

His short snout

Twitches in the air

Sniffing another fire

Still a ways off

From the edge of the village

He turns tail

Back to what he was doing

Digging a hole

Near the base of the

Rusted metal spire

Here underneath the village

There used to be

Another kingdom

With massive monuments

And indecipherable gizmos

He liked to dig them up

And take them apart

The elders warned

About the dangers of

Digging up the past

But they did not stop him

When his claws click on metal

He widens the hole

And steps back

To have a look

It was a large metal container

He had seen these before

There was one in the forest

With trees growing through it

It was larger than this one

But had the same general shape

Rectangular

Openings about halfway up

On all four sides

Sloped in the front and back

Instead of resting on the ground

It stood on four wide disks

This one was full of dirt

But the one in the forest

Had all sorts of levers and buttons

That he loved to play with

Pretend he was

One of the old ones

Operating the vessel

For some important purpose

He scrapes some loose soil

Out of the side opening

A large clump falls at his feet

He picks it up

Drags it to the river

Holds it underwater

Til he can see

What he’s holding in his hands

A skull

Large and strange

The eyes faced forward

With a large sphere behind them

It lacked any snout

The teeth extended

Straight down from the eyes

Flat on the bottom

One of the old ones

He’s never seen one before

It seems important

He scurries back to the vessel

Tosses the skull in

Covers it in about an inch of dirt

Puts a rock on top to remember

The fire is almost to the river now

After it burns through

He will come back

So he can learn more

your head

I’m sorry

The internet messed up your head

I’m sorry

These years

Have made you strange and detached

You can’t even see

That you’re lost

Gone from what you were

Things are always changing

People too

But rarely do they

Change back

The world you live in

Isn’t even real anymore

But it feels real

To you

When we talk

We’re both just

Speaking to ideas

Not really engaging

It’s fucked up and sad

I want to bring you back

To whatever you were

Before you got fucked up

In your head

swim

I gotta goswimming

NOW

Gotta dunk myself in water

Splish splash about

I haven’t been in a pool

Or lake or pond or river

In far too long

If i get to come back

After i die

I think I’ll come back

As some kind of water guy

There’s so many kinds of fishes

But i could do a whale or dolphin too

Or a turtle

Or one of those big ol isopods

I just like being in the water

Salt or fresh or brackish

And the oceans rising

There’s gonna be a lot of new real estate

Second Steve

Steve you’re a fucking loser

You don’t have much to offer

A creature of habit

With really dumb habits

You are small minded

And loud

I’m not going to hooters with you

I’m not going to hooters with you

I don’t care about baseball

And I’m not going to hooters with you

Yesterday you said

You gotta be an expert

In far left ideology

To watch any movie nowadays

And i think you’re so stupid

You’re clearly an alcoholic

Quit looking at me

Over the frames of your glasses

You square-headed fuck

I’m going to drink

All your coke in the fridge

Wampire

Well

I just got my freaking blood sucked

Not good

Went to Transylvania

For a week

Mostly because

I got it mixed up

With Pencil vania

I thought the liberty bell was here

But i haven’t found it

Just a bunch of creepy castles

With gargoyles

And townsfolk who are so annoying

They kept telling me

“Beware the Wampire

He lurks in the dark

Waiting to suck you

Suck you hard

Your blood that is

From biting you

He’s old and he’s evil

And he lives around here”

I said ok whatever

Where’s the McDonald’s

I was hungry as hell

And all they had was garlic bread

No thank you

What if i meet a pretty lady

And my breath stank

Yeah so basically

I’m wandering around these

Dark dripping alleys

At twilight

Feels like I’m being watched

Followed

I tripped in a puddle

And i felt like somebody saw

I felt like they snickered

Laughed at my misfortune

I tried to stand up

And fell again

Splashing in the puddle

Then i hear footsteps

On the cobblestone

“Want some help friend?”

Deep voice

Another freaking townsfolk guy

Who the hell are you

I’m fine

I like it in this puddle

He said

“My name is Wampire

Get up out the puddle

I’m going to suck out

All your red blood”

Oh no no no

I tried to scramble away

But he just grabbed me

Strong guy

And he bit on my neck

Drank me like capri sun

Dropped my limp body

Back in the puddle

Splash

So I’m lying here

Thinking how rude he was

The sun starts rising

Ouchie ouchie

It hurts my skin

army

Come along friend

I have a job for you

Do you like shooting

Shooting and killing?

Well you will

I want you in my army

The war hasn’t started yet

But it helps to be ready

My thinking is

I’ll make the biggest army ever

So i can win any battle

But i only got like

Five guys tops right now

So I’m letting my dog join

We can get other animals too

Build them special guns

Helmets and bulletproof vests

I’ve been going into

My neighbors yard

And measuring his cat

Tied a BB gun to it

But the cat wouldn’t shoot

Not yet at least

I went down to the pond

Caught like fifty frogs

They’re in the bathtub now

Splashing around

But basic training starts

On Monday

Gonna make them do push ups

Gonna shave their frog heads

Crew cut

Gonna teach them to kill

I went to the zoo

And i tried to get a tiger

But the zookeeper got mad

Then i asked if she

Wanted to join my army

And i got kicked out

That’s okay i can probably

Just work with the frogs

For now

Unless you want to join

Yeah i was lying about

The five guys earlier

Basically it’s me right now

Plus my dog

Plus the frogs i caught

But i can tell

This army is going to be great

We’re going to win the war

Once we’ve started it

5 AM

Waking up easier lately

At a brand new time

So i can

See the soft morning light

Walk through the alley

See a couple rats scurry

Cross the street without looking

Catch an early train

Ride in the quiet

Walk up the sidewalk

See the pillbugs

The roly-polies rolling

Scan in the complex

Slide in the elevator

Unlock the door

Sit in the office

For an hour

Before anyone disturbs me

I go to bed early now

But i like it

sundown

Crack open a can of beans

Stare into the flame

Flickering into the dark blue

Starry sky

Feel the heat on the heel

Of those worn down boots

Haven’t spoken to another

Person in days now

Talked to the dog

The horse

The flame

The sky

The road

But none of them talk back

So listen now

To the crackling wood

Insects chirping in the brush

Leaves fluttering

In the soft but constant breeze

An owl

Far away a stream running

The dog sighs

The log crumbles

Scoop out some beans

Swallow

And rest

wizard

Long bearded men

Seldom share their secrets

But if you sneak around

Tip toe through the tower

You will hear them whisper

To eachother and themselves

Wise lessons learned

In the amount of time

It took for them

To grow those beards so long

They mutter incantations

Scratch notes on parchment paper

Brew elixirs and potions

Transform and transmute

They pull on long robes

With nothing underneath

Dance to silence

Close their eyes and dream

They revere all things

Treat even stones with respect

As if all things are sacred

Substance of the world

If they catch you

Sneaking around

Trying on their whimsical hats

Oh boy

They will grab you by your ear

And drag you out

Kick you on your bottom

And say

Begone with you scamp

You will go flying

Tumble down the hill

And land in a puddle

Part your muddy hair and look back

And the wizards tower will be gone

screen door

I try not to apologize

When i don’t need to

Apologize

But i really am sorry

Such a sorry piece of work

It’s hard for me to

Approximate

Another point of view

But all the time im trying

I just miss things

Im forgetful

Self absorbed

And unfortunately

The only person I’ve ever been

Is the one i am now

If I acted wrong

I just wish you’d say so

So i could pull out

My biggest apology

But being sorry

Hardly ever helps

So i open the windows

Unlatch the door

I hope you can hear me singing

Through the holes in the screen

Im trying to be forthright

It may not seem so

With the door still closed

But this is

As open as I’ve ever been

I’m warming up to more

But this is new for me

I think

Though I’m not certain

That we are all new to this

So I’m singing

To try and understand

cigarette

The ash grows long

Likely from humidity

Water in the air

But i attributed it

To my current state of mind

I never wanted to smoke before

But i do now

I’ve got shit to think about

I’ve got filthy air to breathe

It makes me look cool

More than that

It makes me feel cool

I hurt myself all the time

With little consequence

This is one of the fun ways

I give it a light tap

The ash falls

I remember thinking

I’m never gonna smoke

Here i am

Smoking

And feeling good about it

It’s funny i think

I have a good sense of humor

About this kind of thing

I love to laugh

And i cherish being wrong

Someday i won’t smoke anymore

But I’ll have this memory

To soothe me

When my mind is racing

And it is hard to breathe

One at a time

In and out

I’m breathing still

Despite my efforts

neanderthal

There used to be

Other people

That walked among us

We saw them

In the fields

The forests

The caves

They were simple

Like us

They hunted

Ate plants

Painted in

The flickering light

Animals they knew

Perhaps they sung

Perhaps they cried

Do you know what happened?

Why there’s only

One kind of human

Today?

There are several theories

And we can’t know for sure

It was so long ago

But it’s likely

That we killed them

All of them

Some became

A part of us

And the rest

We killed

Genocide

By bow and arrow

There were other factors

Disease and volcanos

But within a thousand years

The Neanderthals were gone

Extinct

I worry

That this is our nature

A force of extinction

A race of death

It seems we just can’t help

Destroying

Killing

Extinguishing

We are the driving force

Of the planets

Newest mass extinction

Regardless of our survival

This will be our legacy

It is frightening

It is uncomfortable

To be human

Catalyst of destruction

blank slate

I always like starting over

I’ve played the first couple hours

Of my favorite video games

A million times

I love to start fresh

I’ve never beaten a Pokémon game

I love a blank page

Full of opportunity

Ready for ideas

Words and drawings

Until you touch it

It contains everything

And once you’ve

Tarnished that

You can flip the page

And begin again

I think that’s why the earth

Spins around the sun

We all love cycles

It’s normal

To start over again

In the same place

Wipe the chalkboard clean

Spit on the dust

And try again