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2/23/09


spend your moments wisely, or spend them surprisingly,

but it's silly to think you can save them.

no interest to be had, your dividends all wasted.


- The Fauxet

3/6/09


kill your teleblindness and turn on your poemivision.
instead of becoming another venture capitalist,
become the next venture poetess.


- The Fauxet

3/9/09


dishing up the night's sky with the sun's leftovers,

the moon shines down its lunar light and

drives us into lunacy.


- The Fauxet

3/23/09


we spend the years toiling.
filling up the bucket.
the one with a hole in it. the one full of nothing.


- The Fauxet

4/6/09


Run your mind through the delicate cycle,
and don't forget the
softener.


- The Fauxet

4/20/09


you decanter your witty banter,

leaving behind the sediments

of your upsetedness.


- The Fauxet

4/24/09


a fine glass of tragicomedy
that goes well with the
smoked bananafish.


- The Fauxet

5/4/09


darn the garments

cloaking our minds

into carefully woven insights.


- The Fauxet

5/18/09


even your self-mockery smacks

of disguised

vanity.


- The Fauxet

6/1/09


a writer bites the bullet every

night and then wakes up in the

morning to describe it.


- The Fauxet

6/15/09


in all that inspires you,

may the fire

grow higher.


- The Fauxet

6/19/09


disrobe your ego

and bathe the self

in flames.


- The Fauxet

6/29/09


like trying to catch a
wet bar of soap,
i struggle with serenity.


- The Fauxet

7/13/09


there is

no fun

in dysfunctional.


- The Fauxet

7/27/09


rake the fake

and

seek the real.


- The Fauxet

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8/10/09


you wallow in your depression;

i swallow mine down

without further mention.


- The Fauxet

8/14/09


when you're feelin' loca,

start livin' la vida

aloha.


- The Fauxet

8/24/09


taste life now.

don't just

gulp it down.


- The Fauxet

9/14/09


no leaves

could fill me with beliefs

like those of your latest book of poetry.


- The Fauxet

9/28/09


either yelling with glee or

screaming with glum--

the punk rock intensity of my two-year-old son.


- The Fauxet

10/12/09


you used to use drugs.

now you do religion.

what will be your next illusion?


- The Fauxet

10/26/09


from within my bones, some poems

would roam. from beneath my nose,

some prose arose.


- The Fauxet

11/9/09


the bruises

from your abuses

that darken instead of fade.


- The Fauxet

11/23/09


the badge i wear

that declares,

"out of order." 


- The Fauxet

12/7/09


people get screwed

all the time. i was just

next in line. 


- The Fauxet

1/11/10


he can pick the oldest, lamest tunes;

and no matter what, it always comes out

sounding fresh and new.


- The Fauxet

1/25/10


wrapped baroquely in a boa of clouds,

the moon takes center stage

and hums the sun a summer lullaby.


- The Fauxet

2/8/10


i lit your letter and inhaled the fumes.

your smoke signals warning me

to stay away for good.


- The Fauxet

2/22/10


i'll follow the path wherever it leads,

just so long as it leads away

from me.


- The Fauxet

3/8/10


lessons for today may expire by tomorrow.

if there was a guarantee,

it's only that there isn't any.


- The Fauxet

3/22/10


what you say is trite,

but all right; what i say

is long, but all wrong.


- The Fauxet

4/5/10


if there was a meaning,
it's long been
dead and buried.


- The Fauxet

4/19/10


love for sale.

fidelity

sold separately.


- The Fauxet

5/3/10


it is difficult to see

in the dark of a Dusk Age and the

promise of Nightfall ever lurking.


- The Fauxet

5/17/10


when even

deep breathing

can't quiet your demons. 


- The Fauxet

6/14/10


turn off your propaganda machine and

just kiss me,

dammit!


- The Fauxet

6/28/10


take this and stick it in your

mind. when the idea's cooked,

the bell will chime.


- The Fauxet

7/12/10


raised my bird on dissonance.

now instead of chirp,

it hisses.


- The Fauxet

7/26/10


your tireless search for

new frontiers always seems

to end in the same old tears.


- The Fauxet

8/16/10


stop petting your peeves

and start

living with ease.


- The Fauxet

8/30/10


diving in.

assing out.

astronomic belly flops.


- The Fauxet

9/13/10


Chris Chins and
Muzzle Limbs: two appendages
of the same Confused Brain.


- The Fauxet

9/27/10


perspiring mightily and
struggling to strike a proper pose,
this beginner's yoga ripped my pantyhose!


- The Fauxet

10/11/10


i can't help myself
from this perpetual
need for self-help.


- The Fauxet

10/25/10


in the old familiar pattern,
she fashioned my underwear
into a "jock" o' lantern.


- The Fauxet

11/8/10


the distance between us,
so far and shark-infested,
yet your presence remains indelible.


- The Fauxet