Outsiders

A man with a wool hat pulled over one earand a plastic bag loaded with potato chipsstands in the turn lane while trafficsurrounds him with no gapsbetween the oncoming cars.They all filter through flickeringguide lights that leavepools where the roadmeets the photonsthat rain down from the power line.Time will keep moving pastwhat’s in front of […]

Rabbit Out Of A Hat

A hundred years ago it hauntedhim like any image of a maniacwas likely too. Squirming on the floorwrapped so both his arms were in a crossacross his body.Handcuffs were nothing nowthey fell off his wrists like an envelopetorn from a letter not meant to be seen.The water in the tank for himwas always clean as […]

Plea To The Control Room

Early dissonant noise made bysome over done machinethat’s meant to take the message downbut not remember anythingyou’ve ever said.I thought that you were dead.While taking stock of all your stuff,I locked away inside the backseatof my car that I left parkedfor seven years.I thought that Christmas ended earlybut by the strips of lights it looks […]

Success Story

It was an old brick buildingthe same color as the rockyou see in hills that we’ve split openwith the highway.It had a crooked roofand floor made of poisonous tileand was in a stretch of milesno one cared about enoughto ever take. It was a branch of a larger bankyou see on towers in the downtowncity […]

Dull

I found an epilogue onan apple core constructedfrom just five unspoken words;and it would grow again.The letters were punched perfectlike the tree knew how to typeitself together. I get nothing out of eating nowmy stomach like a plastic bagstretched almost to the pointwhere it is melted inwardpurely by the gravity. I’ve stood out in the […]

Cereal Box Text (Unprinted)

It can be annoyinglike too much of anything,and it can be bad enoughto make you not believe,but its as real as every wordsaid of a credit cardfound somewhere on the sidewalk,with a safety pin jammed through it,like a fish hook, stuck in something’s gills,lost somewherein a river or the sea,but do not speak to methat’s […]

Sorry

Defy your breeding by believingin the orange peels in spiralson the floor because the acid burnsyour fingers if you bite them.Car keys melted down into metals fistsover the wrists of lonerswalking by the wayside where the waterruns so clearly underneath them. Boys with bad cars offer ridesto girls with bad judgmentand in pairs they all […]