This Nostalgia of Mine

I want to be a neon light. One of the signs you find outside of a bar. Inside of a bar. On the side of a truck stop, promising salvation in a desert for thirsty hearts in migration.

I’ll listen to music all day and when everyone is gone, I’ll be so still.

Ma and Pa

Capable and copper toned, my mother told me I had perfect, olive colored skin. “I’m going to tell you something, something you might not know. You…

For the Invisible Girl.

Even a city boy knows what it feels like idling under a big sky. We’ve all been there at one point or another…

Damnation

What it feels like to be the bad guy

The truth is less glamorous than its reputation

Pride is replaced with remorse, never for what I’ve put others through, but for my own integrity sacrificed

To Be Stale

You’ve been feeling a particular existence recently-

It can only be described as what you imagine

it would feel like to lose an arm, but feel like it’s still there.

You hear songs