the roads closer to home are still slick
with the tightly packed snow protected
by shadows
but, sometimes, that soft crunch, despite the
danger, is still preferred to the gritty grind
of salt on ice

she seemed to feel the need
to be pretty drunk
to sleep in your bunk
she must not like you that much

from the womb
the love you exude
similar to seeking
warmth from the moon

i'm digging this sound
deep beneath the ground
asleep with the hounds
i'll keep making my rounds

i have yet to decide
my favorite vice
they all taste like the same spices

my eyelids seem to be obese
yet tonight, under these sheets
i'll wait for sleep to find me
i gave up looking for it a while ago

i hate you.
for lack of a stronger word.

with the mentality that i'm
trying to fool myself into believing
i shouldn't care but i do

if i was a book
the story would be boring
but you'd love the end

tripping on floorboards
the door tore open once more
if i could sing, i would
if we had wings, we'd soar
*let's get naked
and explore

i’m scared of the future
****** stares through sutures
pirates who don’t understand who you were
Before the scooters with less wheels
Soon we’re dying to try and live
Slippery thighs with lies within
Skinny kids slithering in to the house slytherin
My kids will begin to wither when
Their eyes see the skin their in
You’re working for a scholarship
sent. fist through mirror.

honestly, it’s not so bad
right now
she’s not mad
right now
he’s not sad
right now
if i don’t think about it

i was busy all morning
organizing thoughts
and upon completion
i dropped the box

i've been having this problem
ever since i signed next to the X
superiors jealous
because my combover is the best

i miss the days before the flood
when jokes were funny
when pockets held money
when mornings were sunny
instead of nose runny
tears corroding cheeks
deep canyons out of creeks
resentment when we speak
impaled on mountain peaks
stress is a disease
i miss the day we find a vaccine

no heart and all thumbs
i’m tired of feeling dumb
scarred wrists and empty cup
i’m tired of feeling numb

i want to give you everything
so i sat down
took a deep breath
laid it all out
came to this corny, cliche conclusion
that i would buy you a mirror

wake up to the german sun
you might say son, it's all the same one
but i'm no dunce, i know the sun
we've had fun, we were friends once
then i moved away from the states
that made me stay the same and changed

now all i see is his brother
who shines a billion different shades
Of homesick

you wake up, you’re angry
the world, you resent it
your moms on ozempic
there’s no one to vent with
the ceiling makes sense
if you stare at it long enough

i'd rather be caught
in the cold chaos of war
laying in a broken cot
right next to yours
then in a wind blown
to your front porch
and you're not home

i want to build a castle
that will house all the arousing
words you throw around without
knowing where any of them are going
now you leave me no doubt
that your blouse will have found
it's own way to the ground
by the end of the night

you thought yourself so subtle
and follies so few
but to be brutally honest, sweetheart
i've met puddles jealous of you

a wise man once sang
and the words uttered still remain true
*it's the freakin' weekend
baby i'm bout to have me some fun

when a mountain cascade
was the only face to put with the name
people seemed to care more for what i had to say
this is a sad day

the impending ending in sight
together for one more night
i can't pretend to know
how the rest of the story goes
but i do know this was the best
weekend of my life

like ivory split on wooden planks
she whispered to the cloud
thanks
for watering the plant
from the very seeds she planted

so another weak night
on a weekend, we fight
to stay relevant but i
forgot you're heaven sent
i never meant to say this things

an invitation
you called to me in blood red
request denied, *****

while i lay in bed, watching episodes
of the office for the seventh time
you and him stand in the mountains
firing a high caliber weapon
at silhouette targets that might as well be me

my head is a lava lamp

***** sheets
nights on repeat
lack of sleep
excess energy
my own enemy

kindly whispered
the pale night's sun
*go to sleep, delusional one

i see things things i don’t mean
and say things that nobody else does
maybe someone with a college degree
can make sense of this digital buzz

i’ll meet you where you might meet me
sandy scales of ocean water become your feet
the only memories of us I felt worthy to keep
skinny jeans and anxiety in corpus christi
you made me forget myself on the beach

you died upon that pedestal
because i wouldn't let you down
until you stopped being beautiful

like a doctor's list of patients
with obsessive compulsive disorder
filed alphabetically over and over and over

your. possessive.
you're possessed

erecting the walls
knowing the ones who travel
to knock them down
and more valuable than the ones who only call

i don't want to be around
for anything other than
to make you feel better
than you do right now

I'm beyond me
Beating myself for being myself
And then beating me again

i've always denied
the offered ride
i'm not sure why
perhaps it's pride
that makes me hide
and shy away
everytime i hear a stranger say
*hey, need a lift?

my eyes meet your baby blue gaze
“nice to meet your face”, they say
my heart keeps a pace
adjacent to a train racing
to replace itself and sound and light
and if he attacks me
i hope it is not tonight

it's hard to find anything these days
in a world where it seems everyone is so
happily engaged to be engaged

in this hall of women
stripping to get money
to pay their groceries
to eat i found love

slave
to the skinny white
staying by the wall
all night

when i tried to make sense
of who's who and what's what
unfortunately, you didn't make the cut
regardless of your cute ****

rainbow motion tongue
painting the sky of my lips
on the ground exists a pessimist
his name crossed from invitation lists
three decades spent amidst
his failures, never more content
each sad, wool cob web meant
success for someone devil-sent.