Linger

The windows all are broken outof a beat up van abandoned in the desertand the scorpions are already moved in.There’s a spaceship in the living roomand the grandparents don’t knowwhat to do but keep on saving moneyin their pillow cases.That old stallion won a hundred racesstuck on both ends of the oddsand met the gods […]

Slice

She cuts pineapple with a knifehanded down to us by her motherwhen we moved here in the winterand the snowmen looked likemonsters made of waterat a point of indecision.The crows watch for usand wait for us to leaveso they can pillage all the seedsleft for the squirrelsout in the backyard by the treewhere she would […]

Decorate

Misfits make the underlying structureswe all walk on while we ignore themlike cicadas in the trees still makingnoise like there is anybody listening.Cheap roads lead to cheap buildingshanding out the least expensive productsto the people we pay nothing just to be there.We like to decorate the ones that we hold backwith stupid hats and brighter […]

Low Cloud

Two figures in a brawland I can’t see at allthrough this thick fogthat’s taken over most ofeverything. One is bashing in the faceof the other with a stoneit grabbed from somewhereon the ground herein this neighborhoodstill being builtfrom nothing in comparison. In my peripheral a horseis running circles on the concreteand its hooves make sparksand […]

Roman Candle

Busy roads full of rusted peopleand their rusted blood so slowin all their veins while they all counton things around them to remain the same.How many more pizza placeswill it take to break the need we haveinside for something new to soothewhat we leave out of everything?Their eyes are whitelike they were cut out of […]

Promised Land

I don’t care if I get rained onthis day was meant to take its timeoutside where we’re allowed to smokeand choke on all the words we try to analyze.I’m fine with being stupid for the fun of it.A clown without its makeup on,just another person walking down the street.I think she’s far more beautiful with […]

Vacation

Teenagers on vacation are as recklessas a kamikaze nightmaresince they know somewhere inside themwhat they’re really going back towhen it’s over. Pink lemonade gone redout on the glass tableunder the blue and green umbrellasomeone put thereso that we could look beyondthe furthest fences in the cattle fields. The striped cat is like a guardianof the […]