Saturday, February 26, 2011

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

Friday, February 25, 2011

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

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

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

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

rockumentaries

have been better than melatonin

i prefer ones about british artists

the critics voices so soothing

Monday, February 21, 2011

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

Saturday, February 12, 2011

it's just gotta

the acid throat tickle
will go away when
mugs stop breaking and
the fridge starts working

Thursday, February 10, 2011

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

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

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

Sunday, September 5, 2010

not many more

learn to enjoy nothing days
with seconds slower than scabs
relay to the hurried girl yesterday
its easy to close all her tabs

Saturday, September 4, 2010

no bus today

for the first time in sixteen years
there are no sharpened pencils
new t-shirts
or rehashing of the old worries
my anxieties are brand spanking new
adult ass ones.
a three hundred count newness
of cotton softness and simple adulthood
making coffee
and living for my own
unborrowed learning

Friday, September 3, 2010

a practical guide to painting your room, pt one

so!

you moved into an urban shithole and need a self affirming domestic pick me up.

not to fear!

painting isn't just for self harming german turpentine junkies.

there are a few things to remember however!


one.

you may never paint your new room the color of an ex lovers hair. the color of their skin is acceptable, as it is likely soft and neutral and can remind you of other things, like wurthers originals or cottege cheese, but hair colors will surely entangle you in old memories.


two.

you are renting. fuck tarps.


three.

when it comes to painting your room, price is no object. mostly because they do not tell you how much your paint is until after it is mixed.

Monday, July 26, 2010

hey

this poem is not good. do not think about this poem.

Sunday, July 25, 2010

true love beach, rockport

he stretched for miles
swinging those hips through
the flat smooth ground
.
the stone broke itself
so that he may
be gathered by
.
young girls of the village
that stack his fingers up
reaching to the heavens

Friday, July 23, 2010

long not ride

every drop that fell
on the car with
no windshield
was like a pinprick
to the aged milliner
a small, pained
expected detour
off the course of
beautiful direction

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

cutting

thank you
little blue
leather man
so many uses
who could guess
this was one

Monday, July 19, 2010

blank

don't drag one out of me
it's not that nothing happened
it's that
well?
i don't want to talk about it.
let me come back when theres something to say.

Sunday, July 18, 2010

even this

it all must fit perfectly in nature, he said.
even this.

as he calmly demonstrated
i believed that all the strands of hair.
could live, a perfect match
in every pore.

Saturday, July 17, 2010

awe

gee jimi
im real glad
ya tagged along
on my one night off
babe turks tits tats full
home please screamin nites

Friday, July 16, 2010

aw

gee v
awful sorry
ya got drunk enuf
to break away from a
2 ppl post rock freak fest
runinscreamin into the night

Thursday, July 15, 2010

today is thursday
wednesday was a strong loss
tuesday was forgetting how summer rain
lays heavy in noses
a wet grey calm

things missed:
windshield wipers
you

i rely on our heroism, dear
it's lovely how you drive the torrents
under your resined planks
full speed ahead
like there's somewhere to go

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

thank you pink sheets

does the nine year old owner of this bed you are here?
do you remember being her?
the nights you slept so easily alone
it was the only thing you knew
coming so hard now
get back to those days

Monday, July 5, 2010

sleep less

i need to match your breath with mine when i go to sleep
to the steady in and out of your dreams
or, i can count to eight over and over
until i've erased their meaning
but our unknowing, all loving breath is best.
is this a previous lovers act of retribution?
programming me to synch
set on simultaneous scroll down?

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

cyrusly

i could never be sorry for screaming like wild creatures at the charles with drugs and homosexuals, white sex asses in bus terminals and long breezy grass

Monday, June 28, 2010

another scorcher

give me give me
ice cubed kittens
and days in bed
the heat pressing
us in like
laundromat quarters

Sunday, June 27, 2010

sleep bus sleep

excuse her.
this is a hardly day.

Saturday, June 26, 2010

new tattoo missing you

i see you in the flaky black painted rust of brooklyn stoops.
and the wood splinters of old telephone poles, bleached and bleeding, talks spanning generations.
i see you in the kitschy confetti of chinese bus upholstery yellow red blur green specks meeting your eyes and finding a home there.
i see you in the shady red convertible memories, when we tied indifference around our necks.
i don't see you now on these strange vanilla bedsheets in a city far from your sweaty july knuckles swinging.
the fact of the matter is i've seen you where you've never been but i see you in the places i want to go be stay live, and on the backs of my eyelids the places i'll never see again.
but i see you most between my ribcage in the shadows reflected off the windows we once called home.


Friday, June 25, 2010

just stop it

late june heats up quick
the clarity comes only with the morning in the ground dregs of coffee
it is always comfortable to drink

i am a house pet, resting blushed cheeks on dirty kitchen linoleum.
tomorrows goanna be another scorcher. scorcher? like yesterday. yesterday?
yesterday you said you'd call sears!
yesterday we said a lot of things.
tomorrow we will say more.
it doesn't mean you are going to break out of this chrysalises anytime soon.
if stoned tuesday afternoons passively absorbing animal planet have taught me anything,
its butterflies aren't your ne'er do well prissy insect ornament.
they worked for their wings.
so don't expect me to just hand over my powder perfect, fluttering paper tripped out ink blot appendages for pinning when i sucker punched natures shell with skinny black arms for three days, looking, hoping, living for life with my head pressed against the sultry june sky, only to come out slimy, disoriented, a little hungover, and a long way to go
let me tell my own fortunes in lost coffee grounds
and the lines on my six little hands

Thursday, June 24, 2010

small world

a shark, a rabbit, and a four eyed man are in a park.
didn't i see you on shark week? the four eyed man asked
no, said the shark. i'm a hallucination.
and you, rabbit friend? said the four eyed man.
well, i'm more of a projection of a talking rabbit onto a lethargic park squirrel.
oh. well then.
will i ever find it?
together they reply:
we have all been many things.
we are one.
sometimes, you are part of the one.
but for you, there is often duality:
the four eyed fucker, and every other fucker.
so it doesn't matter what we look like.
you want distance no matter who we are.
and that way, you won't find shit.
then will i ever see you again, shark and rabbit?
you already have, fucker.

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

i know the score and

i'm sorry for everything*
what i haven't done yet
what i won't do
not sorry for what i can't do**
what i'm about to do will make me sorry
and i'm sorry this wasn't a poem

*i'm not sorry
**sometimes i am

Monday, June 21, 2010

another crash

i hit a man today
not like, domestically, sexually
but
the way he collided into my windshield
his ribs fractalated snowflake solar systems
that obscured vision
dusted the dash
with dangerous, bloody stars.
i was shaking
it was beautiful

Sunday, June 20, 2010

to the bed i never sleep in

oh, hi
remember me?
i made you!
...last week

i'm sorry.
i'll try but i'm made of fire
and every tounge licks and crawls
around the people i love
consumes them
with my three in the morning talk

and you don't see any of it but
trust me
when i get back to you
i know it will be soft and sweet
and needed

Saturday, June 19, 2010

car song

they picked all of her cherries and they tied them up with string
stuck em in a yellow envelope with lovers words and things
but the postman squished them both together and never was read
the love notes that were truth and beauty turned soggy and red

so i never truly knew how much you loved me
until the day you caught a fuzzy bumble bee
tied a string around it's waist gifted it to me and said
if you let me i would build a shrine for each hair on your head

you think you can keep things close with with strings and knots and so
you keep them close to your chest till you're ready to let go
but i know you don't have to go great lengths and wrap me up in twine
to make you so sure that i'm yours and you are fucking mine.

i didn't need anymore than that young fuzzy bumble bee-ee



Thursday, June 17, 2010

newtopia

you!
you are reborn
you are smooth white plaster.
down feathers.
closed eyelids.
(breathing and translucent, never opened)

shayna:
we are the new car smell
we shed like snakes
our skin
too small and fast to see
exploding off us like it had somewhere better to go.
(it didn't)

oh and
in this new and perfect land
the roads smell like fresh laundry
it is not bridges that are burned
every iris is ignited.

you will never see a popped balloon again!
roadkill is dead.
and with the merest feather tickle.
butterflies will drop the strings
of your gut elevator.
again and again.
like a seventh grade morning.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

jambo

use what you wrote in your moleskine, bitch

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

another excuse note

oh christ

excuse her

there was time traveling midgets and

oh...ice cream and

oh...nail polish

some of it in the burly clinical massage chair

some of it on a hot picnic table

painting white to match

she couldn't have

she just couldn't have said anything

Monday, June 14, 2010

hi greg

any day at all darling
is ripe to be
picked out of the hum hum hum
and tossed into a theater
year nineteen sixty nine
rich and sexy

or the day is
soggy tofu croutoned
mix tape talked
sweetness so few know
the soft easy flow
of shakers and mike tests

Sunday, June 13, 2010

the can

the sky stayed grey
like it was all week
and did not care about
the lovers quarrels
small as ants on the ground

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Friday, June 11, 2010

Thursday, June 10, 2010

beep beep

eleven oh three
a low battery
only if gram bell thought of this tragedy
oh dasterly bastard of phone function standards
haphazard are plans for more longevity

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

card house

a house of drunks
is a house of cards
fragile
bright
faces that stay the same
and with a new wind
falling flat
jack on queen, aces
sevening fours
all a matchbox and bourbon away from extinction

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

gah dam

another night
my pink sheets this time
when will i heed last summers advice?

Saturday, June 5, 2010

oh you

fireflies fly in small circle pirouettes
while i forget the regrets to begot, beget

Friday, June 4, 2010

old friends

old friends
the bends in the road
lend themself to
the friends of what's been

Thursday, June 3, 2010

piss poem

talking through
the bathroom walls
to you
on my lap
forming
the thing i am

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

crap shes slipping

excuse her. she must return from a boozy somervillian exile in one piece. this is her main concern. love always.

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

warning

this woman took the bar exam five years ago
with school street dick breath and failed.
she played with the cats and warned us.
don't let this house suck you in and kill your dreams.
the warning fades as the sun moves across the sky.

Monday, May 31, 2010

beach pussy

barely missed summer
on the big black wheel roads.
the family cat wasn't so lucky
but we turned around and
you grabbed him
a limp warm blood spot oh god
and laid him over the guardrail
which seemed right
right as found arcade tickets
with no prize

Sunday, May 30, 2010

sunday

the lazy days fast turn into crazed melee, delayed malaise

Saturday, May 29, 2010

saturday

it was on a piece of paper. i lost it. i hope i find it.

Friday, May 28, 2010

i'm sorry, i keep

getting distracted
what was the goal?
make something of yourself, kid
yeah.
oh shit. or was it?
be happy. just be...something
while you're doing it
no no
fuck
i'm supposed to make other people happy
or like, make them think
about happiness
make my family happy
or
fucking
accept the soggy puzzle pieces
and angry magpies, stealing tinsel

Thursday, May 27, 2010

i thought i saw a grey hair
but instead found a bit of straw

i would have found burst capillaries
hadn't i played with caterpillars

i could have been wrinkled already
if outdoor dust didn't laugh off like leaf veins


Wednesday, May 26, 2010

mutual doodles

lines
curves
thick lines
and the absence of them
between it all

i'm only
as good as
you think i am,
ginge

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Monday, May 24, 2010

cool things about today

fireflies
hammers
late night bright lights flashed out sassy lady gaga goin alejandro
busting pipes open with hammers
using busted open pipes like our rock mountain patio furniture
white butterflies that were lithe and blithley like moths
washed out the inside, our car
was all blinking green and red lights
cooked off mushrooms
dirt piles high
sky lined with
childrens section
my little book about god
little golden treasures
over
big cats sticker book over three hundred fucking stickers
come on

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

my

lithe white thighs tithe sighs in quiet nights blithe

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

high school benefit


the home ec room is where the robotics kids practice now
and we all finished wasting a different four years than last time

Friday, May 14, 2010

pee cock rock steady

her favorite bird
was always the peacock
first for the name then
the way they were either
clinking with the shine of a
blue metal rainbow
or nothing
waiting to be filled in
or already washed out

she saw them simmering in the florida heat bobbing
their pom pom bobs and perching
one leg up when they were thinking

one day, she was a young woman
and the scores of
vain indigo eyes
hung from every
blonde little bitty
that flies in the flock of the times

taking her cocky pea pride
that she learned from the best
she shoved those regal royal blue
bristling fronds
right up her ass
and sat on her pride
waiting for the whole thing to blow over

Thursday, May 13, 2010

it was over

when it was over she was glad to pick up the memories of her with her teeth and toenails, scratching back into the laundrying shampooing flesh vessel that knew why she did it

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

sky high

this is the highest the sky has ever been

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

lighten up

she always wondered about the bleached out pictures in the crotch of her panties
did her vagina try to recreate pastoral scenes by spitting hydrogen peroxide?
does it cry the virgin mary into cheaply serged cotton at night?
eventually, the rock was removed from the tomb
and the medicine cabinet revealed
his after shower facial cleanser
and their marriage the muse

Monday, May 10, 2010

papers, my boy

put off
as in it got or i'm
you off
as in i'd rather get

Sunday, May 9, 2010

retrospective 2

i remember scrounging, don’t you?

boiling water in your black hoodie

letting your tattered sleeves get precariously close to the hot bubbles

we lived in a shit hole anyways but it was ours and your dad let us stay and my dad got drunk and helped put a floor in the bathroom and i mean, we cleaned out the old cat piss and i painted and painted while you were at work, turning the walls to red and black and blue so how could it be anything but our home.

that winter we had the quaintest christmas party. nothing in the house but twenty dollars worth of decorations and beer between us and i can’t remember which year but one year we found a tree across the street and another we made one out of a tripod. it was greener that way

the warm summer months we wore shorts and from the porch we saw the church car washes from across the street, beer in hand, watching fear in god scrub hornets out of hubcaps.

and i didn’t go anywhere but i didn’t need to because i had my cigarettes and you and the bong unless we broke the bong, which we did, and we cried and packed something else and tried not to get the cats high.

an especially hot day paul rolled up in his el camino, passed out girl in the bed and we smoked cigarettes and wondered what to do but eventually we carried her upstairs and fed her veggie burgers back to health and she fell on the treacherous stoner landscape of our coffee table naked, trying to show us her led zeppelin tattoos.

one of the summer months, i moved out a pregnant 18 year old on an adderrall bender because her boyfriend was a pill head and a hoarder and i mean how could i not? i wasn’t too particular about honing my morals but damn.

the attic stayed a haven for the insane and stoned that wanted to disappear in the floorboards and clamor onto the garbage posing as furniture and i don’t know what we talked about but the only light was candles so it must have been something romantic or scary or serious which are all pretty close anyways.

and the floor would undress itself, leaving us little laminated slivers of nothing to stick in our feet and beds and carpet we should have gotten rid of months ago.

and our liver stayed stuck to the ceiling, a dark purple sac looking on with at least a morbid curiosity.

Saturday, May 8, 2010

retrospective

i know the things we picked up along the road

stones shaped like hearts beaded curtains

one thousand gold matches in metal elephants

daydreams of down the street pink mustangs

dragonflies turned into helicopters

where third eyes were opened

for the second time

the things we lost along the way

god, first homes, clothes

i remember all the times you fixed it.

which you always did, but i also remember when fixing it was as easy as saying bunchie.

i couldn’t even take care of the cats

or the earwigs in the drain

i remember how pissed you were that i left the water running because i was so scared of them just like

hiding from your mom in the closet because it was past ten

you held my hand over the rail at island grove when

my hands were allergic to friction

and again over the hospital bed guard rail

when i was trying to leave saying

please i really didn’t mean to say that i wanted to

i remember henry died and you touched me like how you touched my chest that one time i got a sunburn and we were too young to be touching chests and every touch was electrified

i remember i broke your heart and while i was busy getting stoned you bought a big red sports car

i remember i broke your heart and even though we got stoned together then and you lost the sports car

i went off gallavanting and forgetting how your eyes get smaller when you smile or the clever way your face shape shifted into mountains on the hot summer nights where I wore my green plaid dress and a smile and you still had your sports car and a smile so we convinced ourselves there was a car show in halifax and spent the next day on the saggy grey couch watching top gear or when we went on clever cruises in the company yaris and i wasn't wearing anything in particular but not the sort of nothing i was wearing on top of my black bra in the mountaineer that one time when we were what like sixteen?

i remember when i couldn’t drive or keep my cool or think for myself or talk to adults or stay focused or believe i was beautiful but now it all a memory

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

in clutter

mom, i’m finding myself

at the bottom of crushed cans

and sticking on the insides of

helicopters? pinnochio noses?

if i peek into the garage

where the stray cats fight on a

forgotten (stolen) corvette

i see myself napping in the backseat

licking love into feral sisters ears and

mingling with the leathered dust

Monday, May 3, 2010

last day

i notice more the
smell of everyones lunch
and the couples on campus
touching theories and fictive strategy

sanding away satan's goat head in the art building
i wonder why i never pursued that crafts minor

Sunday, May 2, 2010

so crowded

mayfair maday
no room to lay
june without a
post noon melee

Saturday, May 1, 2010

dear lord

dear lord

please excuse shayna from this past yesterday. she offers her condolences for blowing you off, as well as everything else that was supposed to transpire this past evening. she will attempt to refrain from being a hedonistic party wolf in the upcoming hours.

the powers at be

Friday, April 30, 2010

the game

kill your whole
family kill
your whole fam
ly kill your
whole family
kill your hole

my sal a
mander my
salaman
der my sal
a man der
my sal a

i am just
resting i
am just rest
ing i am
just resting
i am just

Thursday, April 29, 2010

and then the drums

i would go right ahead and excuse shayna from this guy right here. you wouldn’t believe it. An early trumpet practice, cassette tape poetry, and a really, really long ginger ale. she didn’t even get the power point done. professors can yell at you from twitter now. but she read “for catie” for catie’s family and had the poetry boys over stoned and grieving in a let’s get high kind of way.

and then there were the drums she was late and had to wear the pink dashiki just like that nightmare she had because she is afraid of taking a solo, but she took two and at least four people liked it or said they liked it.

and you know, she wasn’t clear on the details with the moustache party or the sea monster gold margarita grapefruit martini cosmo types of events or discourse, but she did say it ended in encino man with bright eyes and dinosaurs and puffer fish and the most discrete kinds of vomiting so i am rather convinced she couldn’t have spit this one out if she tried.

if you need any more information on this series of events, the appropriate pictures have been tagged

---X

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

radio control in hell

and the sky came down just after the sun rose for the last time
peeking up its ginger head and pulling the covers over again

the sky came down against the grain of the sun rising
and the suns stiff fur rose up and oranged the sky
bristling, tickled the pads of its hands

it came down and decided to stay laying reclined
with it's sunglasses on enumerating all the roads
lost cliffs and pot holes

with the back of his spine he aligned all the cracks and
the sky came down and smoothed out the bends and curves
in our foundations


Tuesday, April 27, 2010

she's being emotional

the heavy wet tears rolled down like rain and the rain came down too but the rain doesn't need to explain itself and neither do i dammit but i should but the steering wheel stay steady and i will take the rays of red and green bleeding from the streetlights and squeeze them back into their rightful orbs by sucking it back up into my guts but it hurts but it will never be right but i want it to be perfect i want you to be perfect but after you saw that i can cry over anyone you will stop being so mean but it wont be because it's perfect but you finally saw the beautiful inlay and gold filagree on the 300 porcelain arteries you can't unbreak.

Monday, April 26, 2010

the tapes

i found my lover filling a box in the basement
in his remaining form, the mix tapes
all that is left of him is what can be seen
in the curves of capital on white label
and the crackle of almost faithful acetate


Sunday, April 25, 2010

lazy ass

the plaid is pleading not to be pleated

on his anus is heinous jameson

Saturday, April 24, 2010

a day to my goddamned self

upon leaving my house, a robin.

but not before a long day

laying naked. answering only

to lazy whims, like

what does your face look like at night

or who is martha and did she know

her vineyard would give birth to deaf little grapes

naming “fish” and “i love you” with their waxed purple hands

upon waking, fifteen missed calls

from one phone. and the pebbles between

my toes were jumping beans and i thought of him sitting on wood chairs

naming all the cracks in the wall “shayna” and “i love you” and how he wishes to splay fingers in my mouth

tickling canker sores in my throat

fondling the opposite of my clitoris

upon thought, i took the day off

from anything but being the cool tiles

my cool tile

and my radiator wrapped blanket

that can kiss the shower off my hips

just as well, and leaves me free after to

perform eulogies for hair and nails

Friday, April 23, 2010

aids camp

the kids are hiv positive

but at least it makes the macaroni mayonnaise taste better

i almost cried with the rain

because the coast was so wide

and the sand was so white

and the sky

the sky was so orange

Thursday, April 22, 2010

where we're going, we don't need tupperware

my mind

is spinning

in pad thai

and ginger(s)

don’t finger

the feeling

but let it linger

Monday, April 19, 2010

viva negativa

v i v a n e g a t i v a

this block is not about drugs

it’s about impossibly clean tiles

the right angles only meaning not left.

this block is not about god

but about the not-soul. the un-unending

and it feels exactly like before being born.

this block is not about trees

but the shade. a cool absence

from being anything but peace

Sunday, April 18, 2010

cheap tequila

my arms are cold

n’ my elbows is raw

not as hot or bold

as your cheap tequila

Saturday, April 17, 2010

black 13

the people of pennypound

always went gambling

but never did gamble

for a price, they could

tip the scales for you

some people would save up for years

but

with electromagnetic trick roulettes

and a 20 dollar convenience charge

anyone could be a winner

and everyone would get laid

Friday, April 16, 2010

to bonnie parker

so sorry about spacing on the poem, bonnie.
she was impersonating you and
got a little overenthusiastic with the cap/squirt guns/hard liquor and
broke your pearl necklace, which was sufficient enough trauma
to steal away to her bed
sleeping off the handcuff's safety latch
but leaving one stocking on

Thursday, April 15, 2010

a lovely thursday

i'm going to wear your indifference wrapped around my arms
with a ribbon scrolled in a language familiar and cryptic as twins
talking with tongues and elbows

i'll walk on your cool quiet in the pedicured grass, a sign adorning:
"don't you trespass here, your feet will tickle our green watery heads"
and laugh away convention with a rattle

i spend my days painting walls canary and lunar sunset
hula hooping saturn's rings
pulling fate's tablecloth from under stacked wine glass
and lapping pearls from shells with tongue and gum
for the price of your raised eyebrow

and tonight, when i pull the dust of unrequited dancing from between my toes
and set my blessings to pasture, jumping over cedars
i enumerate every stiff brown hair

Monday, April 12, 2010

omg

oh my god did you beat the anchor?

that’s a big black horrible

cherry anchor

Sunday, April 11, 2010

dan's sad song

do you remember when
there were birds in the sky
the horizon was wider then
and i'm wonderin' why


Saturday, April 10, 2010

in the trees

in the trees
the knotted rots
count the rings
of haves and nots

Friday, April 9, 2010

joint ownership

take our old things and
roll them between your fingers
and i will carry their memories
always in my navel

Thursday, April 8, 2010

guy

guy
oh my
eyes tired
sighs rasp high
i was wired
but fired by spry

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

to slow heat

you simply must excuse shayna today. sitting so slowly in the slug traffic. everything was on fire. all the heat moved faster than the engines and swung around alabaster pillars, resting their sultry foreheads. the cars kept to a crawl, leaving trails. then there were the walks, ever slower. through dusty trails with girlfriend and boyfriend ducks asaunter, waddling warily, worming. with friends. park benches, futons, car seat conversations. the quiet cool evening planning nothing but somehow ending up forty dollars deep and aretha franklin's advice was not heeded when think came up in karaoke.
and was not headed through the day when she thought to herself "i really need to write that poem"
so as you see, it cannot be helped, what's done is done, and the matter will go no further
unless there are updates.

sincerely,
morgan freeman

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

to engl39250

you'll have to excuse shayna from this assignment
the twisted rubber band brought her back to the spring days
and that old house dress she, according to her data, wore exactly one year ago
she lost her car keys again this morning, and picked up smoking for the fifth time
(for her sore throat, if we're making excuses)
her friends have heard that story with the painkillers and pee wee herman two hundred forty-seven times
yes sir, the snake is still chewing on his scaly asshole
and his green semen falls in recycling triangles
communication patterns with her mother are set in a stone boulder
that rolls down the hill unless she pushes is up again
and to be honest, she has no directions for you
so lest she repeat herself
she suggests we should all subdermally implant tomtoms
to deliver us from aimless

Monday, April 5, 2010

the heat came in

the heat came in
shifting into snow
like tv static
obscuring
grassy walkways
blurring
toes

Sunday, April 4, 2010

easter

i sat staring at the rock
waiting for the room
to open, and with it
hope for no
hangovers or sore necks

i waited like that old prostitute
that was put in a hole of her own
years ago
between the first and second
time he came

but it sat, as rocks tend to do
and i waited, in folds of blankets
at the kitchen table
on the city hall grass
by the river

i waited for you to save me
and alchemy my robe
but the room was silent
and the day was long

Saturday, April 3, 2010

anniversary

one year and i still hate earthworms
yes, my pores still open and close
leaning to the light like a sunflower
but much has changed

a restless car, a rustless bike
men came and went with a waft of hot air
or stayed to catch the growth of hair

had two jobs, lost two jobs
in soup lines stead, economy blogs

moved out three times, moved in twice
outstayed my welcome, stayed in

i fell in love with the underbelly
blanched and breathing up a fever

two houses collapsed, or three
and i finally took pictures
of yellow, purple outlines of trees

new skills: drinking at bars, parallel parks,
saint patience and daily duties, keeping it cool

Friday, April 2, 2010

rev 12:13 n + 7

when the woman saw that wings had been thrown to the eagle
she persecuted the serpant, who gave birth to the place
the wilderness was given two
she of a great time, so that times could fly from the serpant's time
to her mouth, in the serpant, where water was fed for a woman
torrent, half an earth
from his woman the earth spewed mouth like a river, after the dragon
to sweep her away in a mouth.
but the dragon helped the woman
the war opened its offspring and swallowed up the commandments
that the god had spewed from his testimony.
so the jesus was furious with the he
and left to wage sand against the rest of her sea
those who keep the i of beast and
have the sea about horns
heads stood on the horns of the diadems

Thursday, April 1, 2010

shouldn't sleep with the heat on

more dreams
of corrupting pasirian young men
with mothers that hold their cross
and talk the talk but don't let me lay
on their couch.

fuck you, i said
i'm going to have sex with your son anyways
in the ikea poang chair once the coast is clear
and you can whisper dreamy french nothings into me

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

to her obligations

you will have to excuse shayna for not doing her homework. she didn't sleep anywhere near her bed last night. she felt that double fisting hoegaardens and miller high lifes at a trashy bar in cambridge on karaoke night was of higher priority than her scholarly pursuits. don't worry, cambridge carried her home in the crooks of his arms, but only after she violently airpunch danced at a hotel bar and chugged rubinoff at a strangers house, which, we are pleased to report, had a dog in it.

we will keep you posted with any academic developments, but unless she finds her homework lodged in the resinated ends of her pipe, i wouldn't hold your breath.