The Life and writings of a Twenty-Something private eye
I see that you are pain And I have writer’s block Maybe I’m in a coma again I’m hoping that you come out of this The raw nerves, the memories represented in scars They have made you a bit bitter You feel as though you have nothing left to give You’re praying that these sensations […]
Read More The Epilogue of When You Thought That You Had Yourself Figured OutHaunted . . . . (For the last four years) a clever chess game is being played The radical stakes that have been wagered are reminded in every little gesture Reminders of how I once had a Queen defending me Memories of the bishop sacrificing himself as the pawns soon followed Knights out maneuvered in […]
Read More My Seventh SealGothic vibes Watching hammer horror to pass the time Lock me away in Dracula’s castle with all the freaks and ghouls Let the darkness comfort me It’s no longer scary I’m used to the blind rhythm and marching out of time You can be my final girl I’ll be the shapeless entity You can catch […]
Read More Looking at a Harvest Moon Through a Castle Window on Halloween NightSandra congratulated me on signing up for classes I don’t know if this decision was for me or to please the masses I entered the campus with my arms shaking To be twenty-two in a room full of eighteen year olds I can feel the judgement already coming I pulled up to a parking spot […]
Read More Maybe Next Semester (Flashback Poem)It was the summer I left my parents house and gained total freedom It was the summer that I discovered Bukowski and his quote “do what you love and let it kill you” It was the summer that I gained confidence in myself It was the summer that I started to write again It was […]
Read More The Summer of 14′ ( Flashback Poem)I’m the most scared that I have ever been in my life So much uncertainty Everything seems so dark I’m just hoping for a spark Something to give me an idea of my surroundings Everything I ever planned has fallen through Everything I have ever expected as proven untrue Something in me wants to retreat […]
Read More Tears in a FoxholeYou told me to cut the cords Whether by dagger or by sword I sat there in silence I didn’t know what to say or what to think I thought of the connections that had formed over these last four years And decided to cut the ones that form melancholic tears But the ones of […]
Read More Here’s Looking at You Kid (We’ll always have Virginia)Fate fell short This is the end I just wish that I gave you one last kiss Cuz you got me on the outside looking in Remembering the days you said “Breathe in for luck, breathe in for keeps.” Now i’m just nailing shards of hope together Hoping for something to cover my head I […]
Read More To The Music That Saved My Life (Tribute Poem)I’m on a plane to Cali doing something i’d never thought i’d do I guess you can say that my head is in the clouds again but this time in the literal sense Sitting in between a women to my right slaying mimosas saying how excited she is for happy hour at the gaslight, and […]
Read More Change of Scenery (Sunny Sobriety)Th way the pillow caught on fire while we made a sloppy attempt at making love The way the moon looked when we were hiding from beach patrol on an am smoke session The way that you said that you wished you could ball me up and put me in your pocket so I can […]
Read More I Wear All White So I Can Throw Myself Instead of a Towel