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Perhapsthis
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fleeting
urge to call
old bosses
to discuss
jobs that don't exist anymore,
willingness to
share leftovers (more)
poetry
might be one
given sufficient ignorance
or bravery or suprising
lack of failure, this time
saying first goodbye
we kiss as if discovering it,
astonished how even following (more)
poetry
good trick
Margaret had her crank radio with her under the tarp. It was the middle of the day. The sun poked through cracks in the seams; the stitching in the blue semi-translucent material stood out clearly. Margaret lay on her cot and stared at the tarp, avoiding the too-bright su(more)
Fiction | fragment
cerebral
You out-think me, beautiful,
every time I try to surprise
with researched sentiment
compressed artfully into some poem-

the way you fact check metaphors, (more)
poetry
keeping track
Some untold trillions, and each named,
each counted by your god, so
aminos rip like perforated paper,
sustaining us, sustaining
the microscopic hordes-
we are never alone.
poetry
beaten eggs
The dishwasher comes in later,
his hands will shake and
he'll say that he's not a tweaker, it's
remnants of some disease, he'll say

the pile of dishes will "ravage his soul" (more)
poetry
shouldn't try
you proved yourself smart today,
demonstrating that all the times
before, when you didn't raise your hand
it was out of fear, or laziness,
and neither is forgivable, so really,
you shouldn't try.
underach... | fatherly...
for a year
I always loved to write, in that precious unproven way where it was mostly about hating myself and occasionally writing the same derivative poem over and over again. This behavior has lasted well into adulthood.

April of 2009 I decided, rather arbitrarily, to try to write every day(more)
Autobiog...
hoarding words
INTERIOR THE GOVERNOR's MANSION
THE GOVERNOR has a Q on his rack, so that's something. It's been hard with his opponent, the THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.

All of THE GOVERNOR's failed plans and all those lost points is where we arrive when he makes his play. The word 'Qis(more)
Scene | sketch
role play
US: this is all temporary

THEM: this will last forever

US: look at these various documents
(more)
I have n...
you tell me
how am i supposed to
forget making a fool of myself
over and over
because when i'm in the midst,
doing the lord's work
and off to the periphery you're (more)
poetry
all there is
Linger with the bassoon
my chubby miracle, and
once more with the solo
starting at bar twenty-five.

Jesus yes, that's how it's done. (more)
poetry
sorting through
It's this baller thing
with my coat hangers,
how they are arranged
according to color and type
at three in the morning,
my clothes being irradiated (more)
poetry
closer
that's close enough.
I can see inaccuracies
of teeth and shaving,
bad breath god
almighty, i really
didn't want to hear (more)
obvious ...
railyard
It's his day off and it's lovely out.

He's listening to a dumbed-down science podcast about lasers. Walking north past the Magnolia bridge on the Elliot Bay trail, he comes to a part where the path goes super narrow and is enclosed with chain-link fences topped with barbe(more)
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