this is the moment we are re-crowned endowed with the force of the dao now aligned with profound divine gateway sounds allowed it to flow through me elegantly seducing the goddess of life like rumi, using medicinal musical movements of potent parables zooming closer to the quenching of your deepest thirst Use me as you’d…

Juarez, I’ll call it swampy and wanting that water bog as it sticks in spindles two feet in the air it mirrors my instability growing wildly in all directions. ten yellow tulips with spring still fresh in their buds placed in sugar water at the end of my bed so when I wake alone their…

Never leave a drink unattended, Because drinks are like people, They can get lonely, Especially around this time of year All they want is to find someone And make them happy, listen To their problems and promise With a bitter kiss, to make them go away. Pause and look at that glass, So full and…

“Sheeit”, she says to me, “you better give me a muthafuckin winner tonight, or I’ll take ya’ outside, y’hear? Take ya out to the lot and shank you with a Swiss Army Knife–put a little hole in your kidney, yo, cuz’ I NEED that money, dawg, you know? I NEED that muthafuckin money”…And I do…

it was if I had walked into a coup d’état a tribe of elders a cri de coeur old men sabotaged by blue baseball caps money green windbreakers thick creole accents old men eyes welling up with distrust checkerboard fingertips developed lips disapora line running across their forehead libations are given for the earthquake dead…

Their faces distorted, Masks contorted to fit the shrunken bones. The final humiliation to be so alone And trapped in a cell of arrogance. The senseless deaths occuring From bravely spurning questions Asked not from curiosity, But animosity. How did these doctors not bleed From their believed stigmata, Surely they bartered with the devil For…

This man slowly marches among men And they march in single file He is greeted by his homeland in great cheers But he is cheered only for what hes defiled They love him because he bore the mark of their nation Because he is part of the warriors creed But as he is cheered by…