the neighbors are setting off fireworks
the sky is farting national pride
only it’s like the civil war
it looks and feels like they’re firing them at each other
my cat is scared under the couch
the air tastes like sulfur
the trees are blocking any view that might be pretty
and they just keep going...
14,000 energy drinks can't be wrong
the taste is mutant fruit
by the 14,000th one today it's like drinking a flat soda
can't think
bumbling down the highway
heart attacks in my chest
weak without food
caffeine crapped waterfall
on the sunoco bathroom floor
everything sticks out more than usual
like the discount store owner statue's front teeth biting...
the thin film of my mouth
on your cunt
in a half-mile high toilet
just to keep us going
through an invisible
security corridor from west to east
notes of golden brown
play easily
as we fuck each other
over
and land in Berlin Templehof
1986
the airport border guards check
that i'm some
Persian-Irish renegade
and you're
my Meinhof-Dansk trophy
halfway between Mujāhid-IRA
and Danish Anarcho-Syndicalist
that's...
while I waited for a
connecting flight
in the Lisbon airport
I found myself seated opposite
an elderly man in a red hat
bearing, in bold script
Hot Stuff
he looked a bit timid
air puffs
foot shuffles
the man’s eyes
widened
his lady returned
from the loo
she smiled coyishly
at seated onlookers
eyebrow raised
yes, it’s true
so anyway
the students were hoping
the prof would be stoned
he was
julie waznowski?
“here”
julie, do you write poetry
while smoking pot?
“I don’t know what to say”
pass your sample poems
to the front
mark wimple!
“here”
mark, does your mother
shave her pussy?
“I don’t know what to say
either”
pass your poems
to the front
but I doubt you will be
admitted
sandra beach!
“here”
sandra, could...
I
a good talking to
a man sees his reflection
in the still water
this is how you look
to others
a fish jumps
this is how you look
when you talk
to yourself
you crazy motherfucker
II
comeuppance
a man takes himself out
behind the woodshed
cuts a switch
from the peach tree
that he planted
to attract the girls
& shouts, so you think
you are so smart
III
a...
Always live in regret.
The past is ever present.
There are no new days; you are the same person you were before.
Believe that today will be no better than yesterday. It’s about looking down with despair
and looking backward.
Don't look for new opportunities
that the Almighty has planned for you.
Hardship disheartens,
and does not...
Ten minutes into this interview, and my frayed sleeve
is on full display,
but not in a good way
definitely not a hey, sailor-ish way,
more, she has to stretch 50 dollars over 10 days.
you raise your eyes and give a
soft clearing of your throat,
and if I were a New Orleans seagull,
I would...
Wife smoked and drank hard cider
while I got another headache on a
smoggy sunday afternoon with the
neighbors’ children screaming and
banging on the wall. And the tape
recorder had to be returned for
warranty work because it was fucked
up and wife’s Smith Corona typewriter
was fucked up also again because
everything we buy turns out...
