You Need to Exfoliate, Brother (or God +1)

Twos and threes list greener trees
to keep me fixated on the horizon
tens and elevens the bodies pile up
and room in storage is dwindling

stupid and childish

i feel bored and tired and lonely

wow man what a way to start a poem

‘i feel [one or more negative emotion(s)/thought(s)]’

real fuckin original brah

Burdens of Scott Bakula

Your gauze gaze gave you away
staring at inexorable plums in Excel
sewing circles wholeheartedly disagree
on boundless calculations with no measure
of rickety faith or substantiated kindness
cold swaths of science halt negotiations
and suddenly, in the news:
a wild Pope appears without…

Discartes

I’m dreaming I’m in a dream. In this dream I’m walking in a mist that grows thicker with…

Lamprey Poem

The confirmation that blood feuds still exist
lets me know that I can poison your coffee,
gradually like a lamprey, eating your parasites first
then slowly moving on to your important organs.

Mass Extinctions Poem

Everybody was made of diamonds back in the day;
they eventually opted for skin and diseases
to create semantic rage about “jealous” vs. “envious.”
When you’re made of crater impact carats,
there’s no need for shoes or clothes,
so fashion never took off during this period;
the industry was…

Kicked Out of Nowhere Poem

It was easily good enough to be fake,
what he had that got him kicked out of nowhere
for being too “something” for his own good.

Cock & Release

Lame horse leg swinging loosely ‘round at her head ducking no shots fired ending existence love

Lame horse leg swinging loosely ‘round at her head

Shark Island Poem

He smoked a toad
and became a cave painting
in a bad Hawaiian shirt with In-N-Out grease on it.

In an effort to get paid
for the time huffing amphibians,
he filed all the forms on the government’s website –
all of them.

Early Exercising

Silent elusive showroom of
high end luxury cars
wheel out of sight into
a black lagoon tarpit of
pedigree shame
slipping through your
newly minted fingers
leather scuffs and
cutting Cuban heels
gold ampersand shapes
twist upside-down letters
to unlearn salient facts