WRITING

WRITING

POETRY

ELECTION DAY

Who is this Vic Tanny Bitch?/ Who would pimp out his daughters/ To the horny and strung-out skeeters…

LOS ANGELES

“I think I’m a kind of a poet”/ Said the lion when he crossed/ Town/ O’er the 101/ Tempting the long death of Ellay

CRUSH #3

I loved him for a moment, by accident. Like throwing out my cigarette down at the Mobil…

PANCHO

The old sheepdog laps/ By the lamplight/ He laughs

CRUSH #2

You take a shower./ I roll over Griffith Park/ And yellow hills kiss the sky good morning…

PANCHO AND ME

I was a wet seed catapulted, lying on top the hot August ground. A bead of sweat on the forehead of Texas, I tumbled down the Holy American Mountain and landed here…

COFFEE

Sure enough, there are other things to love./ The blunt tumble of you into my arms

Assholery

I’ve had to do a lot of thinking lately about the extent to which my assholery is a real problem…

To be a Photograph

To love quietly/ Is to be a photograph/ We are only allowed/ The empty glasses, the cat…

August, without the sweat

I’ve got nowhere to go./For the indefinite future, I am bound to my bedroom…

A collection of Haikus

There is a plum tree/ Outside my bedroom window…

Cinnamon

My girl has hair like cinnamon/ I should be smoking my cinnamon sticks…

An Ode

Brown liquor stain on the carpet/ Shaped like a rabbit’s foot/ And my feet are cold

Cranberries, All Over Again

Cranberries/ Strawberry jam nails/ Cars rearrange…

Blue

I love the way the sun feels on my back/ When I wake up bare

An Orange

I began to unfold an orange, piercing the corner of an expired airline credit card through the top, and retired to using my fingers to squeeze under the skin…