Tork Xpressnap
For endless spills
Endless destroys
Odorless prizes
Cling free rewards
The end is when you win
Poets are lazy bastards
And whatever female bastards are
When it comes to love
I don’t choose sides
I’m in love with the neighbors dog
Her name is Mocha
I pet her over the fence
Wipe the crud from her eye
I love her so, so much.
Fuck you children
Hate haters of life
I love hating life
The silent treatment
Not amazing you with my mind
The walks of shame
The bad catering
Songs about
Making things cheap
People pay for their slums
We see buildings
The fisting of brick walls
Student hookers
Proud parents
Small broken sticks
in the sidewalk
Flattened empty cigarette packages
Twinkle twinkle lucky star
I do not scream in bars
I do not talk up strangers
For uncomfortable
Amounts of time
I bow to lampshades
Seek the corners
They turn me on
A closet in paradise.
Full of conviction
Spell check
combustion
Ignore the walkers
We all wake the same
All put on our reflective parts
One leg at a time
The cars line up
Cutting and baking
The content
Pinning butterflies
At the grocery store
Not solely speaking
To the
Masterbators and the
Excavators
not just waving
At the walkers.
A mansion in hell
Sense of humor
Yoga position
Guarding spaces
Left for fire trucks
A training camp for guards.
A place safe to love
Beneath yellow paint
And chrome
Yesterday’s Poem
photo by Jason Buice
We have done a great
Disservice to ourselves
We have listened to
our parents
studied the moves
In great detail
Conditioned our condition
We have punctured tires
Arranged our supplies
Plated our red wheel barrows
We smeared
The colors
Like soft cheese
Sweaters for the macaroni
Forks in our eyes
Anger feeding gallons and gallons
A little confession
Can go such a long way
Living cliches
Ignoring sashays
Making use of these
Cracked shells
Let’s mix our yolks
A brunch for Armageddon
Ketchup bleeding heart.
Gay Boy Scouts
Grandmothers in drag
Family dinners together
A future to believe in.
We can make it happen
Very easily sometimes
Poof, celebrate
Repeat
(This poem was originally recited on January 9, 2015 at Mills Record Company in Kansas City, MO)
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