Archived Poems

is water beholden whatever piece of history you point to I still can’t read you writing

get a new phone now just about every year live like a human in a tree a spider in a rumson mansion here’s a photo of Jersey City and the Atlantic ocean

it’s new like a kitten wondering who won art prize wonder who will be the next president the next poet the next in line maybe the the Internet knows maybe not

the future is here while you struggled with slavery domestic violence and a car without a steering wheel

championing a broken system passes a law makes thinking a felony a prison on every block armed babies waiting to overthrow this

lacking obedience reclaimed idealism resetting your will a brain as god drives a bobcat takes off her helmet finds a cigarette to smoke may we all arrive

prays for the past imagine’s someplace special specific completely incompetent withholding empathy relaxes in the comfort of contradiction one world all it ever was a globe drifting in mind and space looking for astronauts

would fall in love with ice cream and candy the woman on the moon the rocket that brought me here to escape gravity threw it up it didn’t come down drank from an empty glass used a hose for ideas remained strapped to a chair with a reading light was set just unprepared for your…

to tell you this when you called don’t need the chill anymore bought a sweater a thick coat and a memory of the past now ready for tomorrow wherever that leads the way I feel about you you will never know

bamboozled describes yesterday And today too just not tomorrow A poster child for loneliness I believe I saw you on a milk carton my joy and sorrow various states of inebriation the moon was out and it was Christmas the thing is I never drink milk someday something will happen so throw me a fucking…