Life
Death has always been something that I have questioned —something that I use to deny would ever happen within my family. However, the reality...
The perfect woman
In the interest of complexity, allow me to offer my account of why a perfect woman would be utterly undesirable.
Messes are bliss, for we...
The Superintendent
My cell phone alarm clock blares. I roll over to face my bedside table and pick up my purple LG phone. I click the...
Veneration Ululation
Innocent, sweet little boy
Who lives alone in an apartment of three rooms
And smokes on any given day
While he writes about smiling women
With blooming eyes
And...
Sometimes at midnight
It’s a dark cold night, as I’m clouded with uncertainty, trudging through the sidewalk in haze, I bear witness to pillars above me that...
Castle of sand
I had built a castle of sand in my dream
Not any less than truth did it seem
I painted the walls with the colour white
And...
On the worst days
Angela spends her Sundays swaying
to the spokes keeping time in place.
Surreptitious, she gazes upon the ride,
the one we call our own, with grace,
Angelou grace;
The...
Little sugars
red umbrella chasing blue raindrops
searching and seeking and enjoying the splatter
while i am searching for you
and your blood-red coat walks past this lane
and comes...
The chase
Empty bottles and broken dreams
Alcohol happiness evades you, it seems
You’re in eight deep and starting to fall
When all you needed was a friend to...
"Title Pending"
And there they were, landed
from who-knows-what distant planet or star,
in blue, orange, and yellow.
A contagion they carried,
transferred like a bad mutation
through a deceptively benevolent...
Substance
Restless and reckless, too many close calls
In the Sahara developed a Defiance Messiah
Complex on dexedrine with brain-drain.
I’m all in with a winner’s grin, grinning...
As I Lie in Bed
As I lie in bed, I look at the man beside me
And he doesn't even have one tenth of my lover's
greatness
That lover who was...