everyone’s sickof hearing about the pandemicbut the laundry’s still gotta get doneit’s almost a mile to walkcloudy and windy, chance of rainand there are violets bloomingand kids out in their yardsand some guy grilling somethingthat smells amazingand a fat man with a bulging ruckwho waves and tells methe laundromat is crowded but most people thereContinue reading “that bitch reading bukowski at the laundromat”
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if you swear to keep it decent then yeah
selling out wouldn’t even cover my gas billso i guess i’ll keep selling you insteadthe apathy of others is death by starvationand my back hurts too much to dance the limboi’ve got a bottle of pills for the painsure, go ahead, i’ll just keep the one lord willing and the river don’t risei will putContinue reading “if you swear to keep it decent then yeah”
autopsy
i’ve been gone from splitsville longenough that i forgot the mapit’s not like i’m a touristi practically live heredriving up main street you can’t get aroundthe mortuarywhere lo we shall take a scalpeland dissect the liferight out of whatever remained cut right to the hearttime of death: 18 months agohow did we not seehow didContinue reading “autopsy”
i know all about queens
it’s not that i’m allergicto the stingsor even particularly mind(most of the time)but it invites clothing myself in canvasin leather and netting remember this the next time you beg meto take off my armorfor a distant promiseof mead i’ve yet to taste this isn’t an o. henry storyi’m shorn yes butyou never brought the combContinue reading “i know all about queens”
more than when you tried
oh darlin i aint never heardnothin as sad as youcryin out in drunken pain yer cards close; not a gamblerbut the mirror in yer voiceshows yer hand babe i get why yer hurtinya dont gotta say it out loud& i guess neither will i a piece of this messll always beyers, love o minedidnt workContinue reading “more than when you tried”
turns out it was just modest mouse lyrics after all
fresh blood, fresh snow sent screaming sober dancing without drinking is not the usual in this town we cowboys are all desperate for a new war or a new frontier the plains are cold tonight and we ride sore hearts and eyes searching for the last wild buffalo it’ll look so good on instagrami’ve gotContinue reading “turns out it was just modest mouse lyrics after all”
uncool ways of decathecting
maybe the hands-on bruisesnever faded & just slipped silentunder skin’s surfacelike a necklace i’ll never removewith a clasp i’ll never reach the first boy i ever kissedtried to kill his wifesome dramatic double suicide thingwith an insanity plea& daddy’s lawyers bought him outdodged that bulletby diving into trenchesstrangled out of breathwith nothing so inchoate asContinue reading “uncool ways of decathecting”
day four
and then last night i found myselfin family dollar staring blankly at bags of chipsand seeing only objectstrying to imagine eating themlike chewing wet cardboardsour cream and onion flavor my friend who’s been to rehabtells me don’t give up sugaryour body needs it detox is weirdbut i’ve spent entire days eating cakeand i’d rather justContinue reading “day four”
mattress dungeon 