Yule

The statue of a leaderwe slept through is made of copperat the center of an intersectiondown town where everyonehas shopping bags.The black chain on the inclineserves as a rail for people headingthose directions, up or down,and all the parking crowdsthe roadsides so those leftsneaking through have to be carefulnot to sideswipe some suburbanfucking everything for […]

Last Wave

I didn’t qualify for overcast skies,so I think I’ll just stay home this timeand count the bricks up in the barrierbetween me and her,while all the dirt just piles upon top of us. Unlimited parking, unlimited daylightI hope the afternoon maintains it strengthagainst the flavor of this night.Still there is cereal left in the bowlfloating […]

Minnows

In my dream I am lookingfor my car in some endlessdowntown cross streetand I am stumblingeven though I’ve notdrank anything. Eventually I catch a busthat exhales loudwith steam when itpulls up to me,and I sit downnext to some old guysin the neon light. I ask the two how longthey have been friendsand they tell mebetween […]

Where to Walk

All the holy places, caved inlike the brains of those who spenttheir lives maintaining them,were never more than limestone. All the telescopes in outer orbitwill be forgotten and what they seewill fade off into the distanceas the explosion fires on until it can’t. The comics with saliva covered micsin all the orange light out on […]

Lucid

The plastic factory always smellsworse when it’s wet, and it’s been rainingfor the past five days at least now. The sun looks silver throughthe foggy sky to all those landscaperscutting random knolls of grassplaced along the highway.The blades don’t do well when the groundis damp and so they have to passover everything repeatedly. Pigeons blink […]

Attention Shoppers

No one said anything after the outburstand the angry man in sunglassespushed her to the ground.It was the middle of a Sundayat the grocery storewhen everyone was shoppingand you could always findsome shit somewhere on sale. In the slow motion of that silencea teenage girl walked fromthe cutlery with a knife in her handand almost […]

First Big Night Autumnal

I’m parked a block awaywhile downtownyou’re just picking up the pizza.The party’s raging and I knowthat I should be there,but without you I am hopeless,and the happy peopleand overly loud musicare my kryptonite.Although, I could use a cold beerand a wooden porchunsheltered from the starlight.That would be just fine,and you could sneak a pie awayand […]

Night plea

Fuck you and your complainingat the frosted glass The derided mop still soakedwith last night’s dark water A vestibule that smellslike an artificial beach lifted without askingfrom the nightmareof a fisherman Lost at sea somewhere Or maybe the posterof a race car tackedcrooked on the back wallof the pool hall I am getting drunk tonightbecause […]

A Bit Beyond The Stereo

It was night and she and I were walkingthrough the neighborhood,hiding from our friends,out somewhere searching for usto tag us out and finally win the game. We wore glowing bandsaround our necks,my brother handed everyone,as a way to say he gave us supervision.It only really made uslook like angels with their halosin disarray like we […]

Stretch

I left the broken metal bandwith the rest of the watchin her top drawernext to the sex diceand an open bag ofcough drops. I didn’t need to knowwhat time it wasin the summer darkwhen all thingscame uncoveredin the paler light. I broke it in my handafter the phone calldisconnected,and the crystal facecut deep intomy palm. […]