Henceforth a decree
Of solidarity between those who
Aren’t on the fringes of politics
To unite against extremes on both sides

Calling to arms
For a common goal of unity
It’ll take you and me
Marxists won’t make three
Let’s agree conservatively
To pursue the defense of our union
Liberally
Without succumbing to the extremes
We’ve learned nothing from the Soviet collapse?
We’ve learned nothing from the Nazis or the KKK?
History starts by learning objectively
And destiny isn’t pre-determined

So sorry scholar
Go on and holler
Take to trial
The victim of a horse collar
Tackle and dare that individual
To think and you’ve created your own monster
Why is your worst hell someone who can think for themselves?

I’ll never understand.

If Variety is the
Spice of life
Than self depreciation
Is the perfect mixer
To add to your cup

Drink up
It’s a happy hour special
Sit down
Stay a while
There’s no use
For denial
If you can’t fake a smile
For another day
Or another mile
Kissing ***
For years on end
Till you’re senile

What’s a check worth
If you aren’t growing
Misery shows its head
Every night at the bar

And you aren’t even growing.

Look inward
And laugh
It’s the ROI
When you’ve become
jaded and cynical and you don’t know why

Enthalpy
The heat is rising
Faster than you may think
You miscalculated
Everyone knew it
The world won’t stop without you

What’s a rat race without the cheese
A sonnet without rhyme
A reason without justification
Tenderness without understanding

The world hasn't
Won't
and will never stop with you

Get over yourself

A strand of chaos
Related genetically
to descendants and ancestors
Pastoral retreats you run to
are all too familiar
a myopic myoma
the sickness of nostalgia
The world hasn't
Won't
and won't ever stop without you

So get over yourself.

Destroy recreate
Substantial hate
The times have changed
To the very same
Thing it was fighting before

America:
The imploding family
Distrust is all I see
But does hate see you
When you look at a reflection?
  
A country destroyed
So that men can debate
History— the symbiosis leaves
Me numb and irate

I won’t burn the flag
I won’t kneel
But I to
Some extant know how you feel
This isn’t the way
But we won’t change
Cause tomorrow’s the same as today

History’s ironic
When we stop and think
That nobody ever learns it
We only discern it
To fit an agenda
  That weaponizes
The politicians own ends
Everyone wants power
And they’ll discard friends
To get it and keep it

....The ****

Someones gotta see that this isn’t partisan
Someone’s gotta see that we need change
Not a revolution per se
But we need to be more self reliant and sustainable
To show certain people that they aren’t needed
The fact that we’ve become so descentized to our own issues that we create problems
Is just the byproduct
Of the **** we created ourselves

Would you
Tell me that I’m wrong
If I insinuated that
We’re living in a cage
Does this notion
Leave you enraged

What’s the world doing right now?
Closing its eyes
Covering its ears
the rings of tomorrow still reverberate
The yesteryear of today

The jurors eyes
Are blind to the facts
The executioner
Sits and laughs
Judging minds
Sewed an inevitable  relapse

Life begins
Where it ends
And I tell you my friends
There’s no way to abort the mission
Transgressions of the heart
Passions of the minds
Never seem to balance

What is a human being
Defined scientifically
when proportions don’t seem to add up
What’s righteous and right
Depends on disposition
As if that **** ever mattered

What is a human being
Defined emotionally
When the stability of emotions
Isn’t always stable

A heartbeat can be measured
A pulse can be noted
But when are we truly living

I waited
For your call
Like autumn waits for your rain
When it rung, there was poor reception
How profane

Sophisticated
Lumineer
Ultimate Truth Seeker

Strong and independent
Yet humble and reserved
Attraction by way of mystery

Start
light
Ubiquitous
Transmitter
The strength to go on despite everything

Stoic
Lovely
ultimate true

Free-spirited and loose

I love you
As you are
As yourself

Whoever craves modesty
Indefinitely
Shall be completely lost
When the quarantine ends

The stir-crazy
Lonely
And the otherwise social
Will be compensated
For this purgatory
We had no hand in causing

We now just bide our time
And wait for the quarantine to end
And the cages to rust

Summers here
heat is up
Disease Is fought
We’ve been caged
Long enough

A cry of lust
Is a cry for youth
Never before has spring been viewed
With such seasonal Indifference

What shouldn’t be is
What is right now
A present state
Of discontent
A feeling typically reserved
For winter is met by the glorious summer
And a passionate high
Let loose our lust
Where the cages this viruses creates doth rust

Parallelograms
Go unparalleled
Until  trapped
by trapezoids
That
are than fused and molded
To fit inside
Rhombuses

For the squares who
Lack imagination
You’ve likely raised a brow at this notion
And for the cynics ever questioning
I say congratulations
You’ve done a stellar job... at proving nothing
Life is about the possibility of what could be
Based on what is
Improbability lives only in the minds
Of those who’d prefer to Uber to a dream
Just to avoid a toll
And if rules must be broken
So that tradition may redefine itself
Then who’s to stop it

Laced with syntax
Rhyming gets me high
Like ecstasy
Tripping on the the x
Factor, factoring equations
Analyzing every outcome
Call me dumb
Not under the gun
Having fun

Dial 9-1...
Im the one
living life
Without strife
You found God
I found the bar
I will steal your girl
And buy you a bourbon
Hast you learnt
She hit on me
Put a ring on it next time
I’m not responsible for your heartbreak
When I didn’t know
I won’t call her *** though
That’s low
And bro
Your lowest ebb has come
Learn from this

Ever want to detach
Just be yourself
For a change
Come to me
Emotionally available
Internally empty

******* to ****
Is ******* pointless
This is a truth
That I’ve believed for so long
But I’ll go till I hit
Rock bottom

You can’t feel fulfilled
Until you lose yourself
Immunity doesn’t exist
Until you need a prescription

Loneliness is not an  ultimatum
Always wine and dine
Before you lay
Cause when you lay
Without getting laid
And sleep together
It’s a date
That’s a date she’s to remember

Wake and prepare breakfast
Think fast
Cause you know
Your cooking isn’t up to par
Doesn’t matter
You’ll be at the bar
With a mamosa before long

You’re deinking to celebrate
The fact that you beat
The notion and stereotype
That you **** for its sake
you don’t feel fake
Merely empty
Cause she left

But you’ll move on
You romanceced your way into bed
And didn’t succumb to your libido
A victory unto itself

Another smoke
Another drink
Another mundane day
As you age you realize
That life don’t change that much
You can’t complain
It’s insane
Life is beautifully simple

Don’t look
Just be aware
That the world ain’t your friend
Faces show
motionless grins
And jaded perceptions

Life is beautiful
Life is grand
Life’s a spec
In the sands of time

And the pervonbial  hourglass
Is ever-ticking

It may not be ladies night
But if you’re single
Let me buy you dinner
And a drink and go from there

Drinks are cheap
But you’re so fine
What’s your fancy
Brandy, champagne, or wine
Let’s chat and unwind

Singles swing
On a double stroke
Once for luck, seconds for folks
Time slows down
Yes it’s true
Ironic isn’t it, my minutes start with you

You wake up alone
You sleep alone
And you realize
That everyone you sleepwith
Is fleeting
But that doesn’t seem to stop you
You’re on a quest to find connection
In all the wrong places
And as suns rise and sunsets
You learn to feel empty

Never ask about a next time
You know that’ll never happen
And when the stars realign
You realize that the person you wake up next to you
Has the intention of a no strings attached relationship
You reluctantly
Hop into bed with them
Only to find yourself
On the couch
When all is said and done
You feel no connection
Despite stating the contrary
You were betrayed by situational honesty  

Congratulations, you’ve officially

Sometimes the doghouse
Is where you wanna be
free-dom and freedumb
Are blessings in disguise
Have you realized
That their punishments
Provide you space
Time, shelter
And shade
From their looming shade

Doghouses
Are standing fixtures
Provide reflection
Dissection
And Introspection
With the added benefit
Of protection  from the elements

Mind it
But don’t MIND it
it’s not that bad
When you’re all good

Relax friend
You can rest easy

So what
If I get wasted
So what
If I work at a slower rate
I articulate
And get through
Thoroughly

You say
I’m mislead
That I’m my worst enemy
I drink from my cup
If cynicism
I’m overflowing with discourse
That you don’t wanna hear
Cause it don’t fit
With your *******

Call me dense
Color
Me unimpressed
The dearth of ideas
You claim
To have
Are as limited as your
Limited worldview

Hypocrite
You’re being a hyperbolic , jaded
Piece of work
It must be an art to be a living myoma

You’re a morning after
A morning late
A mourning coup de tat
Always throwing punches in your mind

Your not special
Join the crowd
And realize
You’re as vanilla
As every other **** snowflake
You associate yourself with

Don’t you feel proud?

And yes I’m happy
In case you were wondering
But I also know
You don’t have live like this
In your repetitive mind state

Just take your pills
Get your thrills
pay their bills

Faux advice
Half-hearted wisdom
The tooth’s been extracted
And if you want anesthesia
That comes at cost
  
At the cost
Of your dignity
And mental freedom

Politicians are liars
Lawyers are crooks
And shrinks are the prostitutes
Of the  “respectable”
professional world

They work your mind
Stretch your head
You’re now confused
Much too your dread

Shrinks are the unsavory prostitutes
Of the  “respectable”
professional world

I never wanted
To feel so connected
But you’ve got me by the ***** now
And I feel bad
I almost regret the moments we had

Why’d you give me your #
Kiss me goodbye
Left me asking why
Should I try
If you said the only issue was age

38x24
38x24
38x24
38x24

Just goes to show
You can’t ever trust a shrink
Professionally
Or in any scenario

Stop
Drop
Cop it
Conversations aren’t bits
Tantalizing me with empty promises
Of what could be
Only for me to find myself in a situation
Where I’m forcing you to engage
Despite knowing that that’s not healthy
Is this disparate... perhaps
Am I? No

I’m overthinking
Trying to understand women
You will never ein

The exchange
Of words, thoughts and feelings
Should not be censored.
I’m so tired of not talking to you
That it’s driving me insane

It’s a dangerous game I’m playing
Going against everything I know
If I could think about you a little less
Than I could entertain the thought

Friendship is a two-way deal
You’ve got to engage
Even though I do more often than not
And it’s not that I can’t take a hint
But nothing we’ve been through
Draws a conclusion that a hint needs to
Be taken

When swatting flies
With the power of  hubris
Mind your lane
consider the intention
Of your peers and associate

Life ain’t cheap
And it seems nowadays
that people draw curtains to early
Wanting that sunset to book-end
Life continues with an everlasting
....

The trajectory of tragedy
Is triumph
When people die
The legacy is what you leave
Memory isn’t permanent
It’s fleeting, selective, and unforgiving

How do you want to feel in your final moments?
Are you safe in the notion that you’re leaving alone

RIP
My friend
That girl deserves life
For what she did to you
Only time will tell
What justice is truly carried out

Repetitive
Reciprocal
Reproducible
Life is tragically mundane

Systems and routines
We take for granted
When we do it again
And again
Until we break and bend
The giving tree
Giveth closure
As the seed ***** the water
Nutrients we use to grow
Must be consistently nourished
And kept in valence

Life is tragically mundane
Yet beautiful in its simplicity

Heat
Mustered from the brow
To please the gods
Expression at its finest
The flame illuminates
The passion of the soul
While simultaneously
Stabilizing the feisty  and **** nature
Of the mind.

Smoke evaporates
Into the sky
Now we wait for communication
If clouds part the smoke, peace will return
If smog thickens
We pray for forgiveness
All year until the solar eclipse

Hotwired
For your fuse
Hardwired
To live fast
Burning petrol
Yeah, midnight oil
Till the gas lights fuming

The end of of days
Don’t seem so bad
When the nights are so long

Fusing
Under
Crimson
Kingdoms
In
Nonstop
Gorgeous
Serenity

Call it a holiday
Ain’t no hallow day
Just

Fusing
Under
Crimson
Kingdoms
In
Nonstop
Gorgeous
Serenity

Enthalpy
The heat is rising
Faster than you may think
You miscalculated
Everyone knew it
The world won’t stop without you

What’s a rat race without cheese
A sonnet without rhyme
A reason without justification
Tenderness without understanding

The world won’t stop without you

Sleep
Relax
Chill
Let the rush of everyday life go
Crack a beer
Muster a smile
Melt hours for a while
In your hammock
without a care
Don’t you feel relief
For a change

Denial
Is the wine you drink
When youre hungover
From reality

Denial is the ******
We indulge in
When we feel we’ve lost
Ourselves

Denial is the hemorrhoid of
Emotions
Sore to feel
When real
Impossible to heal
Without the suppository
That is time

Sometimes I wonder
If it’s healthy
To forgo romantic interest
To preserve a strong ever blooming friendship?

The moments I can get you off my mind
The moments are short
But I can unwind

I wonder if I talk too much
You always respond
And talk
But you never engage
And you’re far from the shy type

Both of us are self-identifying loners
Maybe over-thinking is my plight
Hindsight’s 20/20
Patience is a virtue

I wonder if it’s a good idea to test myself
And let weeks pass without talking to
See what ( if anything) happens
  
Busy is the way to be
So busy I’ll be
I’ve no right to feel these feelings
So quickly

Ian’s telling jokes again
Race Anderson is laughing
Despite his lack of understanding
Moonshiners have a way of cutting their teeth
on hand-me-down drinks to warm up
my so called friends never
Pick up the bill
Pretty soon
I’m gonna need a lone shark
And an IOU
I’ll pay off our tabs
in fifty years time

Characters
And caricatures
Silhouettes of what we want
To be
Are ever-present
Ever-changing
And ever growing

Sinners, Saints, and reprobates
Are one in the same
It ain’t new
We’ve seen but never labeled
Out of fear for being judged
Ourselves

SSR— we’re a mix of all theee

The marionettes dance
In synchronicity they look
Without regard to clairvoyance
In this world

Permanence isn’t given
You better start living
Stop existing in mere  memory
Life is present tense

Denial
Is the wine you drink
When youre hungover
From reality

Denial is the ******
We indulge in
When we feel we’ve lost
Ourselves

Denial is the hemorrhoid of
Emotions
Sore to feel
When real
Impossible to heal
Without the suppository
That is time

On mind and soul
You’ll never know
Just how much this
Takes a toll

You can lead as many lives as you want
But you only die once
Who’s the memory left to?
Those in mourning
Or your spirit
Now free and meandering?
Because thoughts in passing
Are nothing more than
The passing of thoughts
That build a greater shared experience

Don’t mourn a loss
Gain closure in solace
Doves can fly too close to the sun
But passion fuels strength and notion

Skeletons in your closet
Are tearing ligaments
On tectonic plates
Now we’re in balance
Just don’t dance on the tightrope
Asking questions walking on coals
1000 degrees and rising

Mists of porcelain
Tides of clay
High cynicism
Forecasted today

Ebb and Flow
Have a great marriage
But you’ll never catch them
in a carriage
Fated fading ecstasy
  find their rings returned to Saturn
Yet she remains blue
Her orbit remains in tact
Despite feeling unglued

Her lips hymn hymns of beauty
Your knees become weak
made of porcelain
You shatter in awe
Excuse me miss
Says you
Muffled are your words
Stay a while
I’ll buy you a drink

She agrees with you softly
Her shyness unarmed you
She says

“ what are you trying to do”
“ Nothing”
“*******”
She kisses you

“I don’t tease”
She says
I hold my breath

“Lady
Your hair shines like a picturesque twilight
To what do I owe the honor
May I charm you tonight?”

“ sure, my name is Amber
My blue eyes don’t damper
For I know my tears are
Drowned in the bottle”

“ But in you i sense a companion, a lover and a mate, please pay my check
We must go it’s late”

“ Amber...”

“ mustn’t you worry angel”

I close my eyes to only awaken from
This dream

If I
tell you what I want
Isn’t *** and I’m earnest
Will you still brush me aside?
If I told
That I’m a romantic
Would you run and hide

I’ll keep searching until I find you
Invisible, Elusive one
In the meantime
I’ll work on myself
So that when we finally talk
You’ll stay a while

I will not
Hide my shame
I cannot
Mend your scars
I will not
Actively ignore
Or discard

My hatred
For what we’ve become
Give me the gun
I’ll shoot the flag in half
And sew it back together

We can
Not blame the hate
On the other side
If we
Don’t look at ourselves
(And) Realize
That we’re all to blame
(We’re all to blame)
No ones
A special snowflake

Flames of the end shine endlessly
We’re all to blame to blame

I hate
Everyone equally
It’s not about gender or race
I hate myself too
At times I feel like

We romanticize the hell we create
No ones
accepting responsibility
Blame left, blame right
We never looked inward
To realize  that we’re part of the issue

Ours isn’t ours
Mine isn’t yours
Theirs isn’t I’s
And everybodies a victim of themselves
Grow the **** up
And accept the fate
Of the world has pre determined
We live and grow
Die and appreciated for the memories we leave behind
My generation is one swine
Lead on by the parents
Who draw incorrect and far fetched parallels of Peeceived ****** or Socialism

Only we the people
Can make America great again
Turn inward
And realize that by voting
We actively contribute to our perpetual demise
Lawyer, businessman, and politicians don’t fix anything

We’ve done this to ourselves

The angels congregate
Enforcing policy
Under a crimson horizon
Where devils cry
In glee

wherever roaming
Takes us, we’ll find
Peace
Where the dusk may sleep

When the tides cry for you
Do you make em’ stop
As you’re  plotting through
The sand
To break your tears
When the flames don’t burn
Do you dust off the soot
Do you keep on goin
Without second

You seem lost
But you’ve found solace in confusion
The remedy for your delusion
Was addressed but never prescribed

You never said goodbye
You always wondered why
The life for which you vied
Could never be obtained
Cause you’re so
Stuck in the past
Some memories
Were meant to
Burn
So you may last

Broken frequencies
And a linguist that’s
On a course
Disseminating syllables
Creating a Dissertation
Based on
intergalactic  discourse

Guiding experiments
Creating a gods child
From appendages of anthropoids
Expanding horizons of what science
May preserve— in the name of
Humanity

Missing you
Is missing a part of me
Finding you
Is taxing but love ain’t free
Hoping solace’s found

8 years on
Memories not gone
It’s alive and well
A bittersweet swell
Of emotions raise the question

Why aren’t you
Fading behind the rain
The seas of hearty pain
Behind blue eyes
They strain
Cant you fade behind the rain


Finality
Is only the beginning
Playing life
Will always cause you
To lose

How many tears
Will you cry
Before the tide collides
With the horizon of life
And how many rings
Will you keep on your shelf
Triumphantly
Before you’re roasted you
Your soul can’t make the rent
And 7 monthly alimony payments
Won’t save you



Modern day Nero
Surrogate zero
A ‘ heroes’ worst enemy is themself

Floating alone
In the tears of Saturn
Her rings bequeath you
Dreaming of matrimony
But you aren’t wholly holy within

You’re getting married again?
You should’ve stayed single
7 days resting— will you pray
On the eighth
Baby I wouldn’t *******
I’d feel unprotected
But I would buy you a drink
If you’d just

STOP CRYING!

Never going back
To the 802
No WiFi
All hippies
  mom and pop
Art shops and coffee houses

There was  nothing to do on the weekends
So I’d sit by my stream
Smoke cigarettes
  And allow my mind to
Flow freely
As water

At 14 greenwood lane
Revisiting
high-school days

Others Mental illnesses
And 8 month winters
Might as well’ve lived in Canada

At 14 Greenwood lane
Revisiting high school days  

Ken burns movie
Staring us
Glorified PR flex
At least we had
Something to do
Finally

At 14 Greenwood Lane
Revisiting high school days

Vermont’s a *******

We want this, and we want that
No regards, no second guess
No Vaseline, no perkiest
The number of *******
We’re partaking in
Is leaving us bent over
Blindfolded and gagged in many ways

I’ve never been one to preach
But who’s the ******* leach
That guides us to breach
Such a faulty status quo

We’re Numbed to other people’s pain
All for gain
Nothing stops the fame
We’re yearning haphazardly
Possessing

A Kindergarten mindframe
Kindergarten mindframe
Is life merely a game to win
That we’re losing in spades
With our kindergarten mindframe

Articulation,manipulation
Of the truth
Bolstering an image of falsehoods
Drink up, your entertainments free
Your tabs on me


Ms. Holmes
You started with the best intentions
Now your facing a term
A period in your life
That you’d rather spin in your truth
But the truth
Is much harder to swallow

Theranos was a scam
To everyone but you
Blinded by the ambition you possessed

Lesson learned
Lesson heard
After so much stubborn behavior
She complemented you on your performance
This is what happens
When you aren’t selfish