9.17.2011

best saddest news

at first there you were,
you flowed like the river;
you ran through everything

everything ran through you

so fearless and violent and ravaging
and peaceful

it was so simple
in all its complexities.



you spoke like if every word had a shape
a measure,
each one, a circle so perfect

words not meant to be felt
but instead
to be touched

caressed and held.



now the long night hours tell
of a stead so changed

there is a half-step lost
trampled in between all the somewheres
and the nowheres

no more musings of a hand to clasp
or a back to hold against your chest

half-afraid in realizing

how much easier it was
to write over a broken heart.



September 16, 2011
08:23m - 09:07am
spilled onto The Brand New Hardcores
no eraser, 
upstairs @NotSunset5

5.28.2011

bedpost blues

a Saturday to waste away,
to watch the world coming over,
to take time by its ticking second hand
and make it listen

all i have
is just a sad tale to tell
of smokestacks and grey skies;
of how
unbeknownst to me
i fell in love with them,
having nothing left to love

i never said i didn't know how to lose
yet, maybe i never realized
i learned it much too well
while winning just felt alien,
naturally foreign,
odd
like i.

a perfect excuse for any season
a perfect sorry story
a perfect bedlam for bedtime

what to say
if not for truths?

so, listen

it starts like this:
long, long ago
i ran out of secrets to keep…


May 28, 2011
02:07pm - 11:01pm
spilled onto The Brand New Hardcores
no eraser, 
top run @Gate 23; rounded @NotSunset5
first full commission in Rhode Island