May 12th, 2009 §
Best Song Lyrics I’ve Found In A While:
So I’ll stick to my guns,
but from now on it’s war:
I’m armed with the past,
and the will, and a brick
- Frightened Rabbit, Good Arms vs. Bad Arms
Best Line from Neruda That Used To Be a Favorite Until I Forgot It (Tie):
I want to do with you / what spring does with cherry trees.
…and…
The moon lives in the lining of your skin.
Best Description of Me, Worrying About Who / How I Am, by Someone Else
If I didn’t know you, I’d say “Stop being a girl. You’re fine.” But I know you really weigh these things.
April 6th, 2009 §
(I don’t normally write poetry that a) rhymes; and b) isn’t funny. Here is an example of a poem that breaks both rules.)
Frayed bends of pages
shuffle from between
the ends of ages:
a notebook, seen
through many years
of a young man’s life;
While you shifted gears
from girlfriend to wife
and watched me grasp
the bare, stripped ends
of a wish by the wires, clasped
and burning in my hands,
what you must know now.
After fifteen years in,
what you must know now.
March 19th, 2009 §
(Written in 2008)
What the hands want,
the heart desires
until the sun sets
and the moon retires.
Why the fuck am I at Wal-Mart
on Easter Sunday?
January 28th, 2009 §
Early May in New York state
my father on the edge of forgetting himself
and I, so sick I couldn’t see
did not understand where we were
A silver diner in the middle of no-where
two open-faced roast beef sandwiches
he talked about Rohack’s and his life as a child
and I, with muted ears, trying so hard to listen
more than anything
we should be square with ourselves
in the end
see this how I see it now
January 9th, 2009 §
I.
In Grapevine at a big resort
they had Christmas lights
on public display,
and a show about Ice
you could pay
$30 to see.
We took pictures and saw
the lights and then
we drove home.
Then I stood in the kitchen
and I looked in my freezer
all for free.
(USA! USA! USA!)
II.
Welcome to 2009!
Like you, I spent
New Year’s Eve
with friends, telling
stories and drinking champagne
and kissing a pretty
girl at midnight,
and
watching a very popular web cartoonist
do an impersonation of
a tyrannosaur
a tyrannosaur that smokes Camels and screams,
DRAW A VAGINA
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