my type

my type of neighborhood

is where i can come home

and see everyone i know

at great mega local show

so local i could spit and be

home

s please

i just wish

for like, fifteen minutes

things could be like they were

and i didn't have to be so concerned

with being sexy and interesting and new

take it all

take it all

but fuck

my father told me i'm losing sight of it

and coffee is no way to make rent

and i should be big and famous already

but fuck

its hard to break into this town

every one, every thing, already

appears to be broken, still

rockumentaries

have been better than melatonin

i prefer ones about british artists

the critics voices so soothing

war head

i couldn't possibly
write a poem at my fathers bar
im waiting for him, killing time

it's like
at softball practice when
we would sit around with
a pile of warheads
and unwrap the amount we
betted we could stomach

im counting the candies
and taking a drink
for every one i put back
In the pile

it's just gotta

the acid throat tickle

will go away when

mugs stop breaking and

the fridge starts working

clover

dinosaur vs search

dinosaur vs bedtime

dinosaur vs the potty

dinosaur vs reptile

dinosaur vs dinosaur

dinosaur vs pig

dinosaur vs cat

dinosaur vs king kong

dinosaur vs dragon

dinosaur vs dinosaur games

dinosaur vs bird

getting back

i left something outside months ago

the snow swallowed it up

sedentary and never ending

the snow piles walls

between cars

and sidewalks

(you, now)

the thing lays there

forgotten and sleeping

in blank albino sand dunes

leaving endless shoe puddles

expressionless and unapologetic

i was sure that, a surer sure than usual

a bath would be taken for the first time in years

even if I have to boil every pot in the house tonight

it is warm and almost free and the thing i can’t remember

that I left in the snow will wash off me like stepping salty boots

in a fresh spring puddle and every vertebrae will think of when they

can lay exposed and beaming from a swinging sundress, and stay there