Mercy For A Cursed Herd

I don’t know how to do thiswithout making those excusesfor the parts I leave neglectedjust to set aside some timeto be alive.They kept a rusty shotgunup on their wall it wastheir favorite weaponin an ever growing arsenal.There is an antenna attachedto their house which holdsthe lightning back likeeverything is out therealways waiting to attack.I read […]

Plastic Bag Transparency

It was spoken like a sermon set aroundan empty alter in the multi-colored sunlight.I got my cardboard box and filled it upwith almost everything I brought there,but really didn’t care at all about the rest of it. I saw her on the seventh floor looking downat me walking out with my tie wrappedextra tight around […]

Staff of a Local Convenience Store

Everyone’s convinced they are incrediblein opposite directions.The coffee tables they have had discussionsin the presence of remember themas the group that never knowswhat it is doing. They were responsible for sorting outthe problems they created in the pastand only walked around the park when it was winter.They all knew each other in college,where the configurations […]

Spine

Sometimes the moments I’m about to forgetbecome the worst versions of themselvesbefore they fade away.I take a look at the food in the fridgeto take my mind off what I’ve gotta do today.I think that if time and money were reallya one to one comparison than the unemployedwould be as wealthy as the owners that […]

Sacrament

A young priest walking by himselfsaid silent prayers inside his twistedhead. He wished that he was deadso he could know if all that faithwas ever worth it. She was perfect aside from clearly beingwounded on the roadside.There was moonlight in the mixup of her hair.He didn’t care that they were strangershe was sure he had […]

Delivery

They know they don’t need all of usmaking noise out hereby an empty field waiting for morning.We bet our time against the brick wallthinning out from just the particlesof skin caught in the wind. Pizza box towers are a monument to sinand they begin with just a phone callto a stranger, and they ask youwhat […]

Count Down

Staying home selfishlyI don’t know what’s wrong with me.Is this the perfect thing,is anyone listening?Her tear drops were glisteningthe last time she spoke to me,and I followed them down to the flooras they fell from her eyes. The water tower is waitingfor us by the highway,and so what if I say thatI don’t care about […]