So I say, be happy, though the instinct in me doesn’t capture what I mean. I’d like to think I’d refuse an apology that stumbles drunk out of the bar, that I’d ...
Tonight I drink merlot from the depression
glasses Grandma collected from the EM Loew’s Theater.
I wonder what her fave movies were in 1925.
I worked a...
Every day, she wakes up, goes to the bathroom, and wipes the remnants of the night mask from her face. She washes and curls her blonde hair, whose roots must be...
I tinkle far too often, especially now:
in coffee mugs, glass tumblers, beer cans,
soda bottles, brandy snifters, red solo cups
on my nightstand. Emptied eve...
He plops down a faded blue hardcover book
and says when he dies,
this has all we need to know.
This will tell you about the electronics and
engineering of...
I tell Becca’s boyfriend how when I was 9, I scratched my kneecaps much too hard, and ever since they have been bumpy and so sad. This will be our lil secret, t...
it’s some weird dream that i know is a dream and
the dream knows that i know that it’s a dream so
the dream is like falling and it’s like saying to myself
th...
The thing you hate is hidden in the grass. Is groaning. Wants a boy to rub the urge be urge
to suck it first then swallow. Every inch. Is snake in a box drum, ...
Pant
You only need one pair of pants. I know this because I’ve worn these pants for over seven hundred days; black sweatpants masquerading as jeans; flip up th...
I wait for my lover to text me.
I wait for the doctor to see me.
What am I able to build from his instructions?
I wish you were seeing someone,
because th...
The rain thrummed on the rusty red roof
while my mind wandered to the honeyed swaths
of mountains in small town Ukiah
where I will toil for the American drea...
Sitting with old retired men, men who have been very nice to me
Men who donate to charity, men who spend time in soup kitchens
But time has passed for them, a...
I feel like I have
so many
buried treasures
in my name.
They are all
the names
of kung fu movies
you begged me
to watch and I
greedy watched
without...
Do not land
All heroes spat
back out into orbit
Choking, my dust in their lungs
I ask no man to come
light up my caves
Another boot on my cheek
and I s...
i.
There is a place in Spain she tells me
a city built on top of itself and over again
like a Borges story
She tells me in excited confidence, like it's w...
Mountain Dew poured over
beautiful, crackling ice. Outside:
fog fog fog. Rain, sleet for days.
The valley is saturated, can take no more,
and I forget wha...
Entertaining so you don’t cry.
did you know every winter all the trees fall and grizzlies put them back up
it’s true
Grumpy and crunchy
Through the snow...
When I look at you I think revolutionary thoughts
like that people go home to their houses and are happy
eating dinner with the family they've always want...
The One Where I Miss the School Bus Because I Was Queuing for Food in a Poorly Run Convenient Store
The One Where I Miss the School Bus Because I Was Queuein...
My mother had dreams of the tango in Barcelona.
The closest she got was throwing up behind a Taco Bell,
gripping a bottle of vodka by the neck.
Bulls are c...
a truck bed raised eighteen inches. a mini-Tahoma summit to the passenger seat. swallow my salted goodbyes. flashes of a blue merle’s howl echo out of the drive...
There is something delicious about witnessing
flirtation. A hand extended beyond one bubble onto another,
the brush of an arm. Laughter loud, too loud for any...
I’m scared to eat anyone’s eyes because I’m worried I’ll see their dreams & the sickness each of them carry, or that they will constantly be looking at my i...
The dead girl won’t stop talking. She’s hanging in your room, scrolling through your phone, speaking in hidden hashtags. 1#Deb. 2#Mia. 3#Ana. 4#Sue.
She isn’...
fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck fuck, fuck, fuck
i type this over and over until it has no meaning
your sad flat death tears me open as i look at my iPhone 6
dr...
I became Clementine on a good day. Wearing a heavy jacket, I ran away to take a walk on the wintered beach. I stepped towards the pier, the cold wind moved me a...