Phases

I drive by houses when I’m back near places I used to live and for a second it starts to feel like I have gone back to that era of my life. The days are long out here and I know the only way to shorten them is to take all of those pictures off […]

Days Without Incident

She broke it off with him before his late night shift at the plant where he unhooked the slaughtered pigs from the conveyor belt where they swung as they descended from the upper floors to him. He never felt the need to focus since the task he had before him was as simple as a […]

Pedestal

It’s time now, I am breaking down the pedestal I put you on for so long all against my better judgment. You’ve always surpassed expectations unlike me who just held back to save my time and keep the prying eyes away. I’ll still hold on to certain days when I think back to when we […]

Keep

Back handed offers for help left on the table as the ship goes down and all around the stars go out with sounds so much like screams out in the distance. All the doors in the hallway are locked and from the window you can see how high you’ve gotten and there is no going […]

Good Competition

The circumstances are like the black metal fences around the graveyard where the caretaker takes every bribe he can. He doesn’t care what the people do there because he isn’t payed enough to pay attention. Newspapers that once filled their own buildings are now relocating to strip malls where the eyes of all the higher […]

Higher Ground

Afraid of being afraid we listen to the speakers in their boxes so that by knowing what is out there we can maybe hope the lies are coated with a residue of truth. Entire corporations are built on people making themselves look like idiots for the world as well as all the others who just […]

Accident

Opening her eyes was like a view straight through the fumes of melting plastic and the heat burnt off the blacktop until the gravel underneath was finally heard. I climbed the water tower just to get a sense of what I’ve been contained in and from up there it all seemed so easy just to […]