Monday, July 28, 2008

FREE ADVICE


you say
you are lonely,
why bother
with poetry?

i understand
if you want a shortcut
to hard luck
and depravity.

i get it
if you're sick
in your head
or your heart
and can't start
a real job.

because poetry is
solitary and poor
and meandering and bad
for your head and your heart,
you'll be better
off dead.

don't
start!

Sunday, July 27, 2008

LOST



my sons are
default
joyful.

if only
they knew.

if only
i could
remember.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

WHEN REALLY THE END


you wonder what is
the point: we pace
ourselves as if
guaranteed
our years, use
terms like midlife
when really the end
is here
and here
and here
and...