2005.

Two lives intertwined

A meeting of the mind

Game plans set, but

Fate dealt a new bet

Impossible is nothing?

The truth, this was something

“For you, I’d take up farming.” 

Impromptu poem commission: “agriculture” “faith” “mushrooms”

“When the computer sleeps”

(A poem)

Amygdala

Poem

A milk carton of laughs in an otherwise molded fridge;
look it, you don’t know the length of watery despair
I’ve drunk to reduce inflammation and get healthier.

Band-Aids

Poem

Curled-up Band-Aids after midnight, visceral.
Does anyone know proper CPR
to inch a sickly, deteriorating case back to life?

Seersucker Listings

Poem

Might go Gummo and crazed
or not shower on summer days
for all the bubble-filled universes
and Glee fan-drama rehearsals
in wheelchairs on half-melting asphalt;
people will do anything to embark
on revamping an efficient, corporate playground
into the total…

Homeopathic

Poem

Where’s that thing you had? The one with a point
that was perfectly sharp for injecting moments
and anything else you found homeopathic?
There was a thing we used to do; in fact it was nothing to
us at the time since life was hyperspace, all actions “right;”
now we’re all…

A Poem Written with Words Found on the Bathroom Sink of a Man in His Mid-Thirties

Take
Action.
Apply
Strength.
Prescription strength.
Apply to the affected area.
Triple action relief.
Take with food.

Previous Experience

Poem

We’re pretty damn lucky that previous experience
helps us accomplish the otherwise impossible,
given how short a lifetime we have to learn things.

Absolute Zero

Poem

Absolute value, alone in the backseat,
why are the shuttering people neatly
folded into amateur origami?

Or maybe I don’t even know them;
I give them every chance to be pen pals,
like pandas…