Reminders

After listening to 1257 earlier tonight, I felt the impulse to write some questions for myself out on separate sheets of paper in blue capital letters. I used some of my remaining double-sided tape to put them up on my door at eye level.
I feel like this was somehow a fateful decision for me. I [...]

Break a Few Things

I could’ve been
good yeah
could’ve gone to Bed on time
could’ve turned in my
papers when the were Due
could’ve been friendly
could’ve been fit
but I didn’t like it
no, I really didn’t have to make
trouble but trouble
is more or less
what I’m
all
about
and
well
you know
yes?
Yeah
could’ve taken it easy
could’ve let things slide
could’ve said yes
can I have another
but
you know
Constitutionally something
in me kept making trouble
yes?
Yeah
just not [...]

Bodily

Flows
in one ear
and out of another
I think about
how the sound waves
displace the fluid in me
Hot energy
percolates
through every muscle
/*
If
I have
to fight this
with my
teeth
I
will
*/
blood Flushes to my
cheeks and it’s
good to be
alive

Farewell To

the nurses with chilled cream skin
who pull the bullets out of
the boys and
disinfect
their blood to
send them back to
war even though they
say
LET me DIE
and I wonder why
they don’t
just listen
mud on everything,
some
boys take aim
at the heads of other
boys in other
trenches
while the smarter boys
calculate angles for
the big
guns
while we sneak
through the lines
(all lines
are
enemy lines to us)
and spread
sweet sedition
talk
of a [...]

Fast Lane Girl

I like it when you flip turn
and the peak of your ass breaks the water like a
spring tulip
when you told me when the
other girl left the lane
“Let’s stop circling around and
split it.”
smiling behind opaque black
plastic
I hoped “it” meant
you and I
said “Yeah, sure.” smiling
too
and darting my chin down and
to the right,
cocking my
head at an angle
your voice, [...]