Ethan, Israel

Eitan, yisrael,

Star of david pressed in your palms

Western wall dividing your mind

Eitan, the shema

on your lips

The Palestinians weighing lightly on your conscious, on CNN, in the dorm you share instead of the barracks,

Eitan, ethan,

You are not as confused enough on your stance

Ethan your compassion does not extend to all banks

Ethan, ( Read more... )

 
Damp soil and broken earth,

Standing in the blank space between protestant and catholic

Dark clothes and hair brushed in vain,

Caught in the wind that’s always blowing on North Dakota plains,

Ten years old and

contemplating the cinematic elements of sadness.

You have been compared to a mistress, a child, heroin, six months sobriety, a chicken an egg,
Poetry, why do we ask so much of you?
I’m sorry.

I found some welches fruit snacks tucked in my sweater opened and warmed by my abdominals perhaps contrary to what one would think snacks with real juice become less squishy when body temperature ( Read more... )

To catch a bus before dawn is like riding into the day ( Read more... )

Pre-screening. Should pick up some more credit. Length of employment.
apartment,  duplex, house
location of said a, d, h. Midtown, franklin and lyndale, seward. powderhorn? 
Aesthetics - hardwood, ceilings, natural light. Capacity for cosmetic changes? Paint, etc.
Initial down. utilities, security desposit, etc.

One of my breasts is bigger than the other that is a relative term ( Read more... )

In the local news as of late a boy has been pictured without his left toes. After his family’s half-time tradition of running around outside barefoot he found himself frost bitten and considerably less balanced. After a similar experience without proper footwear and a sense of infallibility I learned to value my shoes and will never go without them ( Read more... )

Televangelists denying the covenant to all monotheism not waiting for a messiah in one form or another. I had a ridiculous evening I need to think through and about. In order to be able to come back later and write about it ( Read more... )

I don't have any flowery imagery but I do sit next to a lot of drunk people on public transport and they have a lot of poetry for romantics, volume vodka and cough syrup ( Read more... )