jill makes me happy.
iwps are next week.
I have t oget in by competing in the last chance slam.
So all my focus is in winning the youth slam.
being 20 does have its advantages.

Shorelines

Before you fall asleep tonight,

is it too much to ask you to promise me

you’ll hold my name inside each sketching of a breath

you draw across your blanket

if I promise you I’ll paint my heartbeats across your chest?

I’ve watched the moonlight bend its way around you

just asking me to chisel it into a poem.

I hate saying no

but my hammer ( Read more... )

So I'm pretty stoked. I'm featuring tomorrow night in Chico. I still havent put my set together but I might just wing it. I'm only going to do about 6 or 7 poems. I'm so happy because my adorable gf jill is coming with me. And my good buddy Rob Zenz, who will be competing in the slam. I think its going to be a good battle betweenhim and Mathew ( Read more... )

I'm not going to go too much into this right now, and forgive me for not updating regularly, but I will spill it out soon, and I do have a lot to say, but I found a girl. We've been hanging out for the past few weeks and as fast as its been, we've become serious. I wasnt expecting this. We cuddled on the beach last night in Santa Cruz. We've both ( Read more... )

So today I woke up at 5:30am to go with my friends to San Francisco. Aaron, Anthony, and Anthony’s little brother Dylan. We got to the city at 8 and hung out at Ritual Coffee. I ended up getting two cups of coffee and two vegan donuts during the two hours we were there. Dylan and I were working on poems and Anthony was on the internet but using all ( Read more... )

When we were all sixteen, we could always look forward to spending Friday nights at Dan’s house. The guys and the girls all eating pizza while blasting pop punk through Dan’s computer and checking our Myspaces. Bon fires, gossip, trash talk, jokes, and Adam showing off his Corvette. Dan’s parents were always in the living room watching TV. His mom ( Read more... )

Awkward…

So this lady has been coming into my work every morning and I’ll admit, she’s pretty attractive. But I knew she was pushing 30. So this morning, being the friendly guy that I am, I say

“Well if you’re not doing anything tonight, there’s a poetry slam I’ll be in, you should go check it out.” Totally casual right?

So I write down the website ( Read more... )

Okay so I have a lot to spill because I haven’t updated in a week or two. And before you quit reading, may I tell you that there’s some juice in this update. Big stuff that I’ll talk about later. So don’t quit reading. I don’t even know where to start but here it goes. Last week I went up to Chico to slam in their Summer Time Invitational with 14 ( Read more... )

I'm posting this since I cant comment back to your posts.

why do you want to move to... Iowa???

so it turns out she's actually NOT a lesbian...
I'm not even going to go into the whole story
but she's not a lesbian.
I'm goin in.
not like that, but you know what I mean.