It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas and I’m listless
All signs point to chocolate hearts and lust terribly encrypted Continue reading →
All posts in verse
valentine and the day
i think i kenn
Engine engine number nine
You can do it, don’t fall behind
But as life shoves and inculcates
You got passed by number eight Continue reading →
colic
Abundance brings me thankfulness
While famine brings me shame
Or abundance makes me forget that
I ever called on God by name. Continue reading →
no where, now here
his cold, damp fingers reached for faraway and drifting clouds while
he couldn’t discern where he was or how he got to “no where.” Continue reading →
bodily Harm
Promises promises
She won’t do you harm,
His word is his bond,
Mom won’t buy the farm Continue reading →
haiku is easy
I saw this on a t-shirt today and it made me chuckle.”
Haiku is easy
Although some don’t make much sense,
Refrigerator.”
we we we
Once
Upon a time
There was only you
And it was all about only you.
For who could skew that illusion Continue reading →
cut & paste
Your insincere sincerities
Are so much akin to cake
Whereas the eating of and having it
Conveys your deeds as fake
Your insincere sincerities
Are as a window cooling pie
While an ugly truth is better
Than the most beautiful of lies
Your insincere sincerities
Bring sincerities to shame
Cut and paste some random sentiment
And fill in the blank some random interest’s name.
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single so & so
The sun shone on her for so long
That her absence is drawn on my walls.
A silhouette of where she once stood
Is painted there while her scent still lingers.
I’m left to resume dinner reservations for one
And attend the parties of my single-serving friends
While listening to them talk of the glories of
Being single or married or dulled by alcohol to not care.
Coleman Hawkins and his saxophone blow “Don’t Love Me”
And the echo of the loving monikers I was once called
Are hatefully marked out with red crayon or her blood, I’m not sure.
For now I’m just another single so and so.
covenant
No edits and no regrets
No foundations on which to forget.
No third parties or loose backdoors
No hidden compartments under floor boards
No skeletons unburied baring the stench
If so, we’ll inhume for recompense
No tears without purchase
No fears with proof
No empty containers
Nor dignity aloof
No fatherless daughter
No motherless son
No sunset forgotten
Nor moonlit sun
No touch is contingent
Mere embrace unreserved
Every thought bring you honor
Every action to serve
No vain repetitions
Nor bulletproof vests
To null this intimate promise,
This constant caress.
