#implied
the actor says there is no comma
the playwright states “it’s implied!”
the actor says “no it’s not”
the playwright rejoinders
“then put the **** comma in!”
the poet witnessed this in living color,
tonight,
at the Guggenheim Museum (NYC)
~
this interaction
left me hard a thinking
where is the obligation?
must I walk the reader down the path
provide a handrail for him to semi-self-guide
with white painted pebbles two sided astride a path stating
pause here for a ,
this-away this-away
or
am I to be mere assumed to be subsumed
fully into their consciousness and ethereally understood
accepting the cadence desired as an
under stood
by we two
two parties,
we united states,
we, the investor and the invested
alack
these is no director to give guidance;
the reader must
intuit
what is the it
the it
the writer desires, they/we/us/them
must be as one
the comma is needed not
implied means though invisible
the writer is invisible
but the needed pause,
is not
he simply stays, think how to speak it,
find the way that pleases your ears,
manipulate mollify modulate
your breathing
intrigue your mind, find the ways to
betterment share with another
find the cadence
to make the meaning to/of
you-the-reader, you-the-envisioner
the con+joined listener
a sacred sacrifice of joining, a combining,
a conjoining….of understanding <nml>
9:57pm Mon Feb 9 ‘26
Feb 9
Feb 9, 2026 at 9:55 PM UTC
Stranded
Feared
Having nothing worn except a few pieces of cloth
Halls of trees leading me down this path
Painting the illusion of this nightmare
That is meant to scare
Bare feet against cold grass
Swimming through the sky was bass
The sky above is a mirror image of the one walking through the hall
I guess I was the one to kick the ball
The trees shook
There lies the child on the hook
Screams that were poisoning
Blood, freshly seeping
Bugs on the body, leaping
The child who lies bare, weeping
Mosquitos feeding
The bass leading
The child who was once wailing
Has suddenly stopped
The lifeless eyes were the cherry on top
There was nothing left to do
Now all eyes led to you
Jan 16
Jan 16, 2026 at 9:12 PM UTC
Must I share my precious luna
will she be dulled by city light
could I not hear her siren hymns
beauty overcame by sounds of man
soft green moss remains uncaressed
amber leaves hold tight to branches
famished ants; picnics forsaken
the old church steeple soon torn down
chilled bones as the bonfire is doused
daydreams unobserved, undreamt
and worst of all
Sep 8, 2025
Sep 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM UTC
This femme fatale
A girl that captures
She be bright and skin tight
Shiny white with youth implied
Conversing in quirky loops
As we jump through her hoops
Slowly showing error codes
Could it be the alcohol
Clap snap of bear traps
Broken from within
Signs of white lines that fracture
Reactions to vast echoes of her past
Trauma tinged before the dawn
Soft but informed
A hardened persona with claws
Jul 5, 2020
Jul 5, 2020 at 9:59 PM UTC
Take my hand and hold me up
I need you by my side
I made you, dear, so by default
There's nothing you can hide
Feb 5, 2019
Feb 5, 2019 at 2:57 PM UTC
they were
just words
shh
listen
i love you
listen again
i really love you
this mountain
will i give
have
we
an
will to give
love me here
answer me here
as my
lips
rest
on
you
whisper to me
beyond
any
what if
?
...
..
.
Feb 6, 2018
Feb 6, 2018 at 7:52 AM UTC
If only our younger selves had known
That promises aren't made to be kept
But to drown us in false hope.
If only I had known
On the day we
Promised,
arranged,
decided,
That when you never showed
It was for that reason.
This time there was no "if only"
Just the inevitability of the end of lives
Yet still I waited 'til darkness grew.
So now I'll join you
Walking through the sea
We promised to see.
On the other side
Apr 27, 2017
Apr 27, 2017 at 1:15 AM UTC
You laugh
When you are hurt
Because you don't want to cry
It comes so easily
You don't need to try
So you laugh and laugh
Till the pain numbs
Now no one takes you seriously
Even if they see the bruises and burns
They chuckle and say
You live and learn
This is fine
This is what you want
As long as you smile
No one asks questions
So you smile
And smile and smile....
Mar 17, 2016
Mar 17, 2016 at 12:19 AM UTC
Waking up crying
Hoping to get comfort
Only to realize no one's there
As you cry yourself to sleep
Friends before family
Is that what they say?
Is that why you always went with them to play?
While doing your best to keep me away?
Not knowing nor caring you were the only friend and sibling I had?
Going through the motions
Is what I grew to do
It was the only way to cope
Loneliness became a familiar feeling
While smiles became rare
Who I become stems
From where I came from
What I learned, I know
Will still be able to show
Promises are made to be broken
A phrase I knew through and through
When you all proved it true
While the only thing I really wanted
Was someone to talk to
Mar 12, 2016
Mar 12, 2016 at 4:42 AM UTC
Mind so simple
Deceived by a touch so sinful
Body so light
Barely put up a fight
Limbs so fragile
Pain wrought so tactile
Shrieks so agonized
Muffled to be disguised
Eyes so refined
Leaving ****** tears behind
A mind so broken
That can't be awoken
A body so torn
There's nothing but forlorn
Limbs so disfigured
Scarred an injured
Eyes blank from the backlash
Remain wide open in the aftermath
Mar 9, 2016
Mar 9, 2016 at 10:52 PM UTC
Whispering lies
Evil in disguise
A smile so vile
That bewitches and beguiles
Cold deceiver
Gullible receiver
Lifeless eyes
That never cry
Gleam only with hate
To those who dare to debate
Against her reign
Of endless pain
Living solely
For her and her only
This Queen of discipline
With a broken soul within
Secretly pleads
To be released
From her personal hell
From which she fell
Under his spell
Only to lose all sense of self
Desperate and alone
On her unwanted throne
She weeps alone
Mar 8, 2016
Mar 8, 2016 at 1:45 PM UTC
Despite all outward appearances
It does no one any good to go yammering on
about how sardonically he laughed
and how much he cried
and how many words were spoken the next day
Aug 23, 2015
Aug 23, 2015 at 12:52 AM UTC
Imagining your lips trailing soft delicate kisses across my skin
Leaving little goosebumps in it's wake
My body tingling in response as you send shivers down my spine
Feeling your breath, hot on my neck as I arch my back in a primal response
Your fingers lingering in the most sensitive of places, calling out a dark sudden urge inside me.
You toy with me, cradled away from the world
For a night I am yours, lost within a sea of blankets and soft, delicious moans.
I am your marionette and tonight, you're pulling on all of my strings.
Control me, puppet master.
Your every wish is my body's command.
Jul 8, 2015
Jul 8, 2015 at 12:09 AM UTC
Last night I had to cut open a body.
The cadaver begged me not to
But
There's some days I don't understand Even the whimpers of a corpse.
Its high pitched yelp was drowned out by the comedy playing in the background.
The smooth blade intruded the skin.
I saw a tear drop roll from its decaying eye;
I wish I'd wiped it away.
Jan 31, 2015
Jan 31, 2015 at 1:08 PM UTC
You've not been eating and it shows -
I do not care to see your ribs
Nor feel them ridge beneath my lips
In our night; only moonlight knows.
Our legs entwined - this too shall pass;
When morning strikes this all must end;
Your fingers trace my arm again -
Twelve scars from silver, one from glass.
It is your mouth that kills me here.
There's nothing further once you're gone;
Ashamed to reach our denouement,
You watch me as I disappear.
Jan 18, 2015
Jan 18, 2015 at 7:37 AM UTC
this Thanksgiving,
I want to carve
myself
instead of turkey
Nov 27, 2014
Nov 27, 2014 at 12:29 PM UTC
In
and
out
my mouth
you go
feeling every inch of my warm heat
with your inanimate cold
with a streak of burning mint
and brutally
like a finger made of plastic
scrubbing my teeth,
scraping my tongue,
sliding against my hollowed-out cheeks
mercilessly,
and my gums begin to bleed
and the mint is stained with blood
and the white has become pink
and it burns
it burns
but I guide you.
Aug 9, 2014
Aug 9, 2014 at 1:06 PM UTC
Take a banana
Peel it
Dice it
Put it aside
If you thought this
Was a recipe
It is
For a disaster
Take a banana
Peel it
Dice it
Put it inside
May 7, 2014
May 7, 2014 at 11:15 PM UTC