Marrow

The answer came. Like a shot in the back. While you were running from your lesson. Which might explain. Why years later all you could remember. Was the terror of the question.

Imperfectly

I'm okay. If you get me at a good angle. And you're okay. In the right sort of light. . And we don't look. Like pages from a magazine. But that's all right.

In Here

even when i look right at you. i always just see through. and i always just see new things. to admire about you.. . am i what you thought you were getting?.

In Or Out

Guess there's something wrong with me. Guess I don't fit in. No one wants to touch it. No one knows where to begin. I've got more than one membership.

In The Margins

Such an intent stare. One eye at a time. Your talons like fish hooks. . You are a rare bird. The kind I wouldn't even mind. Writing in the margins of my books.

In The Way

No you didn't just leave. I actually kicked you out. I couldn't hardly believe. That the words came out my mouth. You couldn't hardly believe. What you heard yourself discuss.

Independence Day

We drove the car. To the top of the parking ramp. 4th of July. Sat out on the hood. With a couple of warm beers. And watched the fireworks. Explode in the sky.

Itch

I am evening the score. I am cutting the umbilical cord. Curled with my teeth against my knees. I am scratching at my consciousness. Like a bitch with fleas.

J

Can't sit on my porch and smoke a j,. And remember how peaceful life can be.. But all night long are a bunch of pushers. Sellin' drugs right there on my tv..

Joyful Girl

I do it for the joy it brings. Because I'm a joyful girl. Because the world owes me nothing. And we owe each other the world. I do it because it's the least I can do.

Jukebox

In the jukebox of her memory. The list of names flips by and stops. She closes her eyes. And smiles as the record drops. . Then she drinks herself up and out.

Kazoointoit

i love us both but i don't feel good. so i keep pulling over. and looking under. the hood. i love us both but i'm at wit's end. where does your compromise begin.

Know Now Then

It's not so much that we got closer. It's that her face just got bigger. And by the time it was taking up my whole view. I figured my face had got bigger too.

Half-assed

You start tripping. And I start slipping away. I was taught to zip it. If I got nothing nice to say. . And down in the Texas of my heart. Driving a really big truck.

Handsome Musician

He was a handsome musician. But he had an ugly scar. You could not see it on him. But you could hear it when he played guitar. . Naked and nervous silence.

Happy All The Time

Suffer did the Buddha. And suffer did the Christ. And suffer did Isis. When mankind started to write. And through profound suffering. Shines enlightenment's light.

Harder Than It Needs To Be

Honey please don't laugh at everything I say. In a humorless way. Honey please don't roll your eyes around. Just to put me down. It's exactly as hard to talk to you.

Harvest

Hat Shaped Hat

In walked a man in the shape of a man. Holding a hat-shaped hat. He held up two fingers and said 'how many fingers? ". And I said 'peace man, that's where it's at".

Hearse

I don't want to strive for nothing anymore,. I just want to lie here with you,. Keep the wolves outside the door,. There is nothing in this world you could ever show me that could ever matter more..