The Life and writings of a Twenty-Something private eye
Sandra 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)You 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)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)You’re everything I’ve ever wanted But what I wanted has been clouded By a spark, a memory The ember of who i’m supposed to be Ignite the darkness of the shadows that I reside Hold my breath, holster my pride I know how this looks on the outside Like I’m leaving you behind Sprout your […]
Read More Attachments of the Heart StringBeen wondering whether or not to take your picture down The one where you pull me in like a vaudeville hook and kiss my cheek I already stashed the two photobooth rolls in the bottom drawer But this one has stayed I question every morning if it’s appropriate to display It’s been three months and […]
Read More Vaudeville- The Curse of the Crescent ClaspSandra was wearing a red dress which to me spelt out “scandal”. She took a puff of the joint that she took off my desk and held it in while not breaking eye contact with me, she leaned back on the office chair and exhaled. The smoke blurred out part of the Jonny Heartz Private […]
Read More P.I. Log #4 Pt.2/2 The First Night of Surveillance on TonyI had no expectation just blind hope
Read More To Feel For the First Time (Flashback Poem)Hemingway went out with a bang Bukowski went out with a “cheers” And All I hope is that I go out with something more than what i’m feeling right now Which is nothing Complete apathy in everything and everyone Makes me think the devil has already won I feel the emptiness in my bloodstream and […]
Read More Requiem for a Lost Soul (Flashback Poem)Topher and I sat on the couch as I popped in a copy of Touch of Evil (one of my favorite movies). Topher kept going on and on about how if he knew Valerie was going to attack him he would’ve countered it with a haymaker; this is the fourth time Valerie has knocked Topher […]
Read More The Other Part Time Gig Pt.3/P.I. Log #3.5It’s four am on a Monday I’ve been hitting the sauce since this time Sunday I’m lounging out in the backyard at Tophers parent’s house Looking at the sky hoping for a spark of inspiration All while having double vision I see a star shoot across the sky And because of my current perception I […]
Read More You Only Wish Twice (Flashback Poem)