Grandmama smoked cigarettes, the smoke swirling as the red-wing black birds she watched fluttered like ruby UFOs in the big yard of summer green, the glass orb on its pedestal surrounded by flowers and a garden of carrots and cabbage and long green beans ... the rabbit war machines with glossy eyes looking upward at [...]
The neon sign in the window at the medicine store on the outskirts of a dusty desert American town read: LIVE LONG AND SUFFER. The letters were a mystical green color and when seen at night looked like a Martian glow splashed out on the parking lot. The spaceship had left him there and he [...]
It only took 500 years but she came along the wire and lighted the way. She’s a nurse of words, a nurse of worries, a nurse of a love never seen before on earth. She follows me on the grid and we wait for another day to be together on the other side of everywhere, [...]
Wrote this on my birthday in 2009. It was a bitter cold day, windy, and I was at a crummy Motel 6 in Laramie, Wyo. Alone, broken, and no one even cared I was alive: On the edge of a sunset, frozen blade of sky The cold of the air Tearing at the neon [...]
My feelings of late have been a mix of fear and love. I was in Denver recently and it was a big, dirty city of sadness … but then out there on the fringes, there was some beauty. There was beauty in the music, there was beauty on the beating down train, there was so [...]
There was I, that is desolation, saying goodbye amidst the turning of the earth. There was I, this lonely man in the breech birth of autumn, oh this downfall, like no other perhaps, like wedding rings thrown down a well, and if only I could cry I would, but this world seems endlessly blank, the [...]
sometimes I have been in love but not like what this girl is a love beyond what love even means our clasping hands during dreams the night, sweet, the breeze, her beside me breathing in the dim darkness I look over to see her a beauty I can’t explain my heart settles in her like [...]
I found out today that I am useless. Someone at my work sent out a scathing e-mail about something I fucked up over the weekend. Jesus! I’m sorry. I try so fucking hard yet I always seem to do something wrong. And people jump on that. It’s always what you do wrong, never what you [...]
There was a dark, lonely road of dirt that led to a bright spot at the end. There were leaves, turned sour and clotted in the mud. The road was lined with black trees, leaning in, almost like an arch, and at the end of the road rose up a white house - old, a [...]
I climbed into the eye of God and looked out upon America, that tainted sore upon the world, and I grieved its passing. I sit here tonight at my quiet desk, in my quiet house, in the quiet country - well, really not all that quiet with the way the heat bugs are screeching tonight [...]
Tropic of Tomorrow 
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