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 […]

Drought

Interlopers hanging out with their bare feethanging loosely from a simple bridgeabove a stream that now was all but dried upfrom the drought. Talking about what broughtthem in as an attempt to try and figuresomething out. Amateur astronauts try and hang themselveswith copper wire at the heights you gainfrom jumping off the Earth.What was all […]

Positive

I can’t tell how I’m doing simply standingin the corner with the air out and the heatall pouring in. I don’t know where to beginbut I am forced to by the winter wolfthat chases me at night when I am sleepingand continuing to never know my dreams.I can’t find my way out of the bowling […]

Nothing New

Kids dressed for funerals they’ve never been to rake leaves under orders from their parents who just want them doing anything productive. A group of smokers argue about football while passing matches back and forth and making motions with their slowly staining hands. A younger kid from further down the sidewalk sits on a skateboard, […]

Lost Charter

Plastic bottle wind chimesand a day that can’t decideif it is cold or not. Impressions in the melting blacktoplinger longer than the cycleof the sun.Still afraid of everyonethey wait insidewhere everything is barely put together.The shotgun shells on the fold out tableare forgotten about and blendinto the background.No one picks them up when they arekicked […]