The sticky, sweet smell ( Read more... )

do you want to listen? just listen, listen to the teeth of the new moon biting into the night. forecast this evening, a low of 29 and dark. everything is dying, i said. click on the link. it takes you to a blood-red low hanging moon over baltimore. chance of rain in the city, 20% with possible snow flurries in the suburbs. everything is already ( Read more... )

I've only been published in one journal. My poems have been rejected by Poetry and by the Omnidawn Press poetry competition. This shouldn't make me feel like less of a poet, but it does. I've read the Language poets, studied with Charles Bernstein, I know all about "official verse culture" and it's trappings, and yet I can't help feeling like a ( Read more... )

“I am that angry and lonely child of always,/That throws you the insult of that angry child of always/And warns you:/If hypocritically you pat me on the head/I would take that opportunity to steal your wallet./I am that child of always/before the panorama of imminent terror,/imminent leprosy, imminent fleas,/of offenses and the imminent crime./I am ( Read more... )

Ithe flag shop is out of stock ( Read more... )

Able bodied, buried alive ( Read more... )

I think the problem most people have is that its difficult for them to "embellish" without bullshitting. There's a certain acumen you have to develop for lying. It's not enough to lie, you have to lie in such a way that people can reasonably suspect the story yr telling is both a lie and a truth. If you couch it in a way that makes it seem like you ( Read more... )

Anyone interested in my poetry, thoughts on poetry, and/or culture at large:

http://abecedarianfx.blogspot.com

Sorry. I ended up doing some heavy editing and overhauling this weekend. I'll get it to you ASAP.

I'm ok. I'm just really, really lonely. But I'm ok. I'm ok.

I'm okay.