Merits

Get up from where the sun is lowand the quiet contemplativeswaste their days and be amazedat what is going on around you.Don’t answer any phone callslet it ring though so they knowyou aren’t hiding. Stop reading and watching the newsat the same time while the CD playershuffles all your albums.Instead just learn everythingby finding out […]

All Time Greats

I don’t have any fancy tricksthat you were hoping for.In fact most of the timeI almost can’t say anything at all.We use blood to paint the wallsAnd make excuses for the messeswe leave everywhere.She stole the plate armor gauntletfrom the decorative cabinetin her grandfather’s basementand climbed the power lineto grab hold of the wire.The resulting […]

Frenzy

If this is really what you say it iswe’ll never have to wonder where were going.She said to him over the plastic tableat the burger place they bothhad gotten tired of. He was showing her a messagefrom his friends, she didn’t know yet,inviting them to almost every partythat was happening that weekend. They settled up […]

Poorly Printed Yearbook

Wind chimes help remind themthere is something outsideall that they take shelter in.They run the pens againstthe bleached off color whitenessof the papers they are handedwith the lines they need to coverwith their names.There isn’t time for them to playtheir games and take their morningslowly like they should.A piece of everyone knowsthat this is mostly […]

Hypothermic Stowaway

You can look awayit’s okay to be afraidof what is happening.The boat is burning upand you are floatingin the never ending waves.The water is cold enoughto kill you fasterthan the drowningever could,and there you stoodas it was finished sinking under. You know what could be down thereall the creatures in the cornersof the maps and […]

Glide

The car in front of me in traffichas a muffler made of a downspoutyou could pick up at a hardware store.It almost proves that if it worksit isn’t stupid. The kids today charge their cigarettesin the ports on their computersuntil they glow like their supposed toand they lean against the brick wallsof the strip malls […]

Ladies And Gentlemen

She is standing in his shadowin a shroud that covers everythingabout her, and if she raises her defensesit would only serve to make the moment worse.An unrelenting curse that hasn’t let its gripslip after everything they’ve gone throughup against it. Another on a couch somewheredrinking in her underwearcries tears over the fear she feelsaround him.It […]