Convincing

Ceiling fans like metal flowersalways in rotation.The pattern on her dress like an illusionshe is making me believe. She is driving and I am rolling downthe window with the hand crank on the door.I was so positive that things would breakapart one day, but I continued holding oninspite of everything. The little shop with cats […]

Nowhere

They say it has been endless every timeonly to find out they were wrong,but that has made things going forwardlike a picturesque punk rock bandwith no song. The pure stone staircase to the most importantbuilding has faded yellow over severalsullen decades. The stockades put outfor decoration had to be removedbecause some people kept on tryingto […]

Serial Number

I’m excited for the prospect of the world’sfirst haunted spaceship and what happenswhen there’s ghosts without the gravity. I followed the sign posts to a town calledblue pasture but quickly passedbecause the people there were burningdifferent sections of their yards. As if the placewas made of fools and there was oneabove them standing on the […]

Late

I’m late againthis timeit’s been a nightmaregetting over there. My feet are wetI dragged themthrough a puddlewhen I was watching herstop brieflyat the window of a record storebefore she moved on and Ilost her in the crowd. She just happenedto catch my attentionwalking there in her sunglassesand hat that kept awaythe tiny rays of sun. […]

Residue

I forget a lot of what I try to just remember.The awful empty stages are covered in the residueof a million slow debatable performances.The clown’s makeup melts off underthe hot lights that beam downlike they are being stretched acrossthe field of view, and only you couldnotice that the lion tamer didn’t have a jaw. The […]

Getaway

I’ve been a part of thingsand I have stood apart from things.I’m still deciding on which lifeI think is better.The swirling clouds are backdrops tothe flocks of birds all swarming by the wires.I fill my tires with cold air to matchthe season and live up to all the localcommon knowledge.Young couples solve puzzles togetherwith their […]

Now Is When It All Sets In

The microphone is dented and the ampsare buzzing loudly over every other soundthroughout the venue.I think feedback brings the room alivelike the current hits the filament and glows. I don’t want to be a hostage anymoreto this revolving door of different screamingmadness. The rock faces running parallelto the river, where the fish are full of […]