Jeremy

Jeremy would never miss a Black Sabbath rendezvous.
Sweet leaf eternal, when I asked him about his sister, he just seemed to get mad.
I remember that he cried when he got the chicken pox, how his face got all pink and sweaty.
I heard his DPW vest had seared to his skin when they found him.

Untitled #3

Life is love
God is shit
and I think
I swallowed
a rock

Benefits of Peace-Punk

watertight
charming
skateboard
vegetables
Ani DiFranco
grains
trains
greasemobiles
wind power
acoustic bass
telephone
cold
peace
punk

Lucy the Horse

stood in a field
with great dignity
chewing her grass
not cud
what the fuck is cud

The Young Artist (inspired by/stolen from James Joyce)

O grave, where is thy victory?
O death, where is thy sting?
O, the blasphemy of that promise!
Non serviam ad infinitum...

Jazz Hands

Diddle me this, scatman
Shoo-boop-ba-dee

Love Poem #16

As he was being crushed to death
by an 8-ton slab of concrete
a man thought to himself,
“well, that answers that question”

Love Poem #8

I hate
your boyfriend

Names

They were married in the grocery store
held the reception at the library
and gave birth in a "Pizza Hut"
Thus, began the adventures
of Keebler Emerson P’zone

Beach

We sat on the beach
and watched the waves
like assholes

Poetry

I used to
be a poet

I wonder
what happened
to that

Movie

My rude boy flair impressed no one
even when I went to see "Pirates of the Caribbean"
I just wanted to enjoy the movie
but my hair was so mad

Funny Jokes

The thing about telling a funny joke is
the joke itself doesn’t have to be funny
you just have to tell it in a funny way
you could wear a funny hat and flail your arms around
or you could dribble juice down the front of your shirt
you could kiss your father very suddenly on the cheek
or you could get really, really stinking drunk
you could tidy up in the den as the set-up
and then call for an ambulance as the punchline
you could ruin a very valuable painting
or you could remember something horrible
that happened to you when you were little
and cry and cry and cry
just remember
it’s all in the delivery

american apparel

is murder too

but the only
person it’s killing
is me

Sandwich Academy

They’re putting new restrictions on our sandwiches
did you hear about this?
we’re only allowed one of each type of sandwich now
because of the economy
and computers
and 9/11
I remember when the upperclassmen were bold
tantalizing our fresh faces with a variety of cheese and sauces
now our faces are wan and sullen
and all our elders have elded
grey-haired and stout
they say variety is the spice of life
but we’ve always known
that the spice of life
is spice