This is a hilltop story dedicated to you. One height of myopic vision While laying supine, you see So much blue clearly To be had. Drink it up. Lay One on me. Tell me something Any order of words sounding Any vision imagined sublime Like skyscrapers submerged Any version of titanium sheaths asunder on thirty-fourth…

They demand it be simple like the possible backstory For the bobby pin on the floor and those benched around Laboring relatively on the beat. Rich with tentative accounts, The suggestions will simply be decorative. A patterned housing A leg encased in netting, the wig from which it fell. The night All shades and hue,…

Between the painted lines, fast food scraps And headlines break down in the sidewalk cracks like grout of front-page, Arts and Culture, abbreviated World stacks Stunting sprouting dandelions. A song interrupts as a jingling advert: ”What’s It All About” from that album by the Grouch Plastic and Paper Product Restaurant and Catering Supplies All flies…

I am more animal now than ever. You are more vegetable. Less human, more numeral breakdown A cobalt dissolution Purify my drinking water With a sign of the cross My heart pours in copper over the sink So as not to drip a dipstick needle in your distilled horseradish Peppering bloods. One day I won’t…

I focus on moments of unconscious behavior All races presume their given places in the Basic emotional truth of ugliness the finest Moments look awful like life with children All brothers and sisters looking level I level the lens preserving lies about earth Bearing codes of ourselves taking snapshots Of deniable circumstance I use my…

It’s a few minutes from a quarter to five and You’re wondering how you got here in the first place. You try to remember last Wednesday and The Wednesday before the day you were thinking, ‘Next Wednesday, I will think to remember to think of next Wednesday.’ It’s a quarter ‘til five and You’re wondering…

Stay focused, don’t follow the hocus pocus, why can’t everything be peace, and no need for toasters, or watchin ya back, wary of the vultures, dodging strays in the corners, hiding with crack smokers, most of our problem is that we lack culture, unaware of our roots, overseas they try an scare em wit troops,…

From under which rock did you crawl? Inviting you over I do not recall No flicker of interest was ever displayed No eye contact ever made Poly jacket and vinyl shoes Over bleached teeth and too much booze Mighty assuming and uncouth Perhaps you should call Dr. Ruth Dare we accept this just one dance…

We all know a time share shmuck Those presentations are so hard to duck Buy a week in Detroit and with relative ease Exchange for an exotic location with a tropical breeze An alluring gift, sometimes money You don’t qualify without your honey If you have no credit card, you’re an ass Through the hostess…

Time is something we should never waste It’s intangible and impossible to replace So why do we spend years with some dumb ass guy And always try to justify For the small fact he has no career While your paychecks disappear The unromantic thoughtless sort While you need a years supply of St. John’ wart…