screaming at low volumes
this roller-coaster of fear and excitement stirring the dreams from boyhood to life a spring of brilliant sunshine droplets and sudden dark spring thunderstorms see me cowering from greatness, there in the garden filled with daisies overwhelming beauty, colors i could not dream not if i’d slept for the next 10 million heart beats this … Read morecatching up
I want it all, and why shouldn’t i? it is so sublime, only the insane would refuse. I want you! on a sunday afternoon, lazy in sunbeams while desert dunes whip. And when I go, I want you, bittersweet in empty sheets your voice still pure in my mind. We’ll sing on bridges to worlds … Read moreI want
i’m making coffee, the laundry spins loudly, the dishwasher purrs. A man I don’t know has a tube shoved down his throat to stop him from dying. I complain at the disarray that clutters my apartment left over from last night’s gathering. the man wants to die but has no means so starvation is the … Read moreGitmo Hunger Strikers
all night and all day, the sun refused me until I stole the moon and raped her; OH, then that bitch, the sun, couldn’t ignore me. following me around, shining on me screaming my name to the crowds of people, they looking like cows in a field, filled with bewilderment – but I knew. I … Read moreThat Ridiculous Night
it was all so innocent … late nights, under the misty rain, lit by the grins of leering pervert street-lamps; and now, it is the angry stench of death in the morning, rotting from hurts unhealed, from wounds filled with salt, that rapes, with such glee, that long ago innocence. a fan of history would … Read moreUntitled
i could feel the disconnect – the finest bourbon falling to the floor. shards of glass everywhere, in feet, fingers in full silence. we slept and woke and slept and woke and it rained and poured all my misery and distrust pounding down out of the sky. i knew full well what the universe was … Read moreDrowning in Hope
allow me to humiliate myself;it is ultimately strength,though it appears to bea long wrought torture:car crash,bus crash,train crash,cruise ship crash,parachute that doesn’t open,lips that don’t kiss,fires at a school,mass murders,targeted assassinations,cities destroyed in earthquakes,bombs falling on unsuspecting children,hands that don’t hold,mountains that slide away,melting antarctic ice shelf,the slaughter of nature:a body un-caressable.i can not helpbut … Read moreloving tragedy
god damn universe, fate, destiny and all that shit!god damn it all into oblivion, into a trajectory that misses every heart.the cold death of frozen lips,stared at while they turned blue.We blame it on needles and things that steal your soulbut a career isn’t as spectacular a death as the needle,and still less than lying … Read moreOn Losing
that it shall come to pass that my chest no longer heaves i shall have to ask that she takes her things and leaves Now asking such a thing should not be too difficult a chore as i have bought no ring we are not bound forever more though thrusting physicality upon the doorstep of … Read morePlease Go So that I may Stay
well played, diana! i’d just begun to return from a place where you could trust no one, when my back was once again pierced by the dagger blade of too silent fingers. though I’d felt it coming as surely as the Gypsy’s demise I mistakenly mistook my own self for no one, so that I … Read moredetective Ego