13. Mount Hum
Nauseated at the beach, we’re watching white birds flock around competing at the prizes. We give ‘em a slice of gum, a loaded trunk with everything you left outside in East Fairmont. Water bottles feed...
View Article12. I Can Be Afraid of Anything
I’m carrying a heavy bucket back from the well. Trembling hands and losing water, losing my will. When we got home, nothing was left but knots in the lease. Now I’m heading west or someplace far from...
View Article11. Willie (For Howard)
Wipe sand off of my shoes, wipe dust from the rails. You know why I’m yelling, but they ask anyway. One day I will be blind, like Willie at the end. Where’s the dog? Where’s my friend? You’ll change...
View Article10. Haircuts for Everybody
I’m afraid to think of ending it. You’ll forget to sleep. You’ll forget its name. It gradually became obvious. There is no us, but there is no I. We believe, we deny. We will change, we won’t die. We...
View Article9. We Need More Skulls
We set out to make up all the mistakes of our parents and their friends. We set up a safety net, but it was above our heads.
View Article8. Wendover
We left our money in the box and set out for a town you love where something positive happened to someone else, but you heard it’s true. With a straight face on the radio, school behind and up your...
View Article7. Mental Health
I was a child. It’s a strange thought. Where is it going? In the trees it looks like bees to float around like that; like part of the rest of the thing, not looking for entertainment. Don’t worry if...
View Article6. Ra Patera Dance
Can you tell my car is gone? All day long, my car is gone. Can you tell we’re taking all advice on how to leave marks? We keep ourselves in the dark. I kept myself in the dark. Yesterday you got so...
View Article5. Rage Against the Dying of the Light
Before I die, take me to the place where we wrote our names wrong, but they shared a space. Branches and leaves gathered between where you are right now and where I wanna be. Between earth and sky,...
View Article4. The Word Lisa
Our pockets turned out, our change on the ground. Whatever we had is lost in the house. The carpets are dusty. Our bones are brittle from eating garbage and sitting down. Freaking out again at the...
View Article3. January 10th, 2014
Ease the babies out of their wombs. Make your hair blonde, hop on the number four. Do you become the driver when they drop you off? I'll become the driver. You don’t take their money, ripping out their...
View Article1. You Can't Live There Forever
There's tiny worlds inside your mind and your fingers are a distant sky that you shove into your mouth to block the whole sun out. It's better than living in the light. To die over exposed so you fight...
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