2/27/09
The pressure to say something profound
directly relates to the size of my penis.
It's why I usually sound like an idiot.
3/2/09
A smart man wrote
"One man's faith is another man's delusion."
I will practice tolerance while I levitate.
3/16/09
the dark circles under my eyes
inform me that i'm thinking too much.
sleep, they say, is for the dead.
4/13/09
I used to dread waking up in the morning,
for fear of what I’d done.
The freedom from that ... well, now I feel lucky to wake up at all.
4/27/09
The Outlaw side of me shakes his head
every time I catch myself
falling in love with you again.
5/25/09
Today I’ll raise my own flag pole
and try to remember
what all the fighting is for.
6/22/09
Just because I’m smitten with you
doesn’t mean
I suddenly love cats and tap dance.
7/6/09
this whisky bottle haunts me
ghosts of slippery glass resent
my whispered pleas of regret
7/20/09
The heat makes me smell
like a stinking hyena.
Too bad it doesn’t make me laugh like one.
8/17/09
The janitor inside my head
keeps re-arranging the piles,
but nothing’s actually getting cleaned.
8/31/09
The past and the future
have tormented me relentlessly -
but here, right now, it’s just wind.
11/13/09
Voice, teeth and words
mixed together with tears and smiles ...
sounds about right.
2/12/10
Any time you're lost
or need a gentle push
I'm behind you, in front of you, beside you.
2/26/10
Perspective: thin threads connecting
shame and embarrassment to
joy and unabashed laughter.
5/21/10
I don't recognize myself
with the bags under my eyes
but the voices stay familiar.
6/18/10
There is something so sexy
about being savagely bright,
turning your nose up at intellectuals.