THINK FAST
the elevator arrives but u forget why ur there
too many days saying not this
or [worse] hearing not chu
Tuesday is Fry Day, 1989
Before sunrise,
a red-blooded man
says he can cook
me a Bundy burger
if I want one...
For Logan
Have you eaten? I have. I’ve eaten your order.
Baby Racoons
Yeah live forever mood
as a minnow school
flutters patches of pond
& gramps jumps into one of those
haggard, saggy, where am I? naps.
i'm slime
but that doesn’t mean i’m
not deserving of
kindness.
What If Pop-Punk Kids Lived Forever
What if Jefe’s never got condemned, if
The Backyard never changed management, if Tiny
Robots still played gigs.
[Horns everywhere]
a whole gigantic marching band, one that used to be louder than bulldozers, louder than jets, louder than Aunt Catherine after three margaritas (no salt)
Partition
I hoped you’d grow into a southern red oak speaking of your roots and the struggle for sun.
Why Don’t Vampires Just Hold Blood Drives?
I want a little more bureaucracy
in my horror.
Side Cars are for Bitches
Zach Braff is the perfect manic pixie dream boy
for any pet funeral, and yet, I suppose
he didn’t get the memo that he was meant
to come down from the Garden State and do the honors.
Half Past 11:00
HALF PAST 11:00 sleeps in my bed and refuses to be
roused. I tuck the sheets in tight before I leave for work
Red Filter
At the dark sky campsite I put a red filter over my flashlight.
A Conversation with Frau Schiele
He only allows my entrance to unbutton my dress
and form those animal poses. To be near him
is to be reduced to line
Outro, Prelude
Here, riding in a taxi on the Manhattan Bridge
late at night in a pit-pat drizzle,
everything looks puffy from the back seat window
Photo of a Turtle in Which No Turtle Is Visible
Just under the browned swamp surface: a reaching
neck (not pictured). The edge of a stick (pictured).