Friday, May 6, 2022
I Am That I Am
I want
and die
with your scent in my lungs.
I want to wrap my arms around you and squeeze
like you're the last bit of toothpaste in the tube.
I want to find every man that hurt you
and beat him
at everything he's best at
in front of everyone he ever respected.
I want to find the mean girls from high school
make them fall in love with me
and dump them on prom night
by showing up with you.
I want to know every inch of you with my tongue.
I want to listen to you laugh after midnight
when we both have to work in the morning.
I want to rub our foreheads together
and let fireflies explore our skin by moonlight.
I want to have to throw away my favorite
black silk shirt
because you ripped the buttons off
with your teeth.
I want to regret saying
some fucked up shit
that makes you look at me
that way.
I want to laugh together
at some other fucked up shit I said
that makes you look at me
that other way.
I want to hold your hair when you puke.
I want to know what your farts sound like
but not what they smell like, because that's gross.
I want to know what your breath tastes like in the morning.
I want to hold you while you soak my face with tears.
I want to know everything there is to know about you
and keep it to myself.
I want to start making love on the beach as the sun goes down
and finish as it comes back up.
I want to make love in the middle of the day
and go back to work without taking a shower
so when I unzip to piss
your scent will hit me in the face
like a cloud of love bugs on the grill of a semi
and I'll remember every noise you made at once
and I will spontaneously sigh-groan out loud in remembered ecstasy before I can catch myself,
drawing funny looks from the other men at the urinals.
I want to go to bed mad at you
and wake up ashamed of myself.
I want to cover you like an atomic force field
and take all of your pain for my own.
I want to make you moan
and your legs shake like Michael J Fox.
I want to make you forget
what pain and hunger feels like.
I want to make you wish
the world would end when we kiss
because every moment that we don't is a disappointment.
I want to give you your space.
I want to listen to you babble about the minutia of your day
in excruciatingly painful detail
while I rub oil into your breasts and thighs.
I want to make you feel alive.
I want to wake up with pins and needles
because you fell asleep laying on my arm.
I want to eat your sin and feed you love.
I want to open pickle jars for you.
I want to reach into the back of the top shelf in the cupboard
to get that thing you need as often as you need to use it.
I want to move at your speed.
I want to make you blush when I tell you how I feel.
I want to hold you in the dark till neither one of is afraid.
In a word,
I want you.
Thursday, May 5, 2022
Albino Crow
Albino crow knows
Nobody listens to words
anymore
anymore
Singing songs of his heart
they see alabaster wings
not the melody he brings
they say he needs a shiny concept
to best represent his emerging brand
and delineate a marketable persona
to set his art apart from his peers
he needs a gimmick
he needs more misery
they wanna know
who is keeping him down
No one believes in happiness
anymore
anymore
Truth is why we can't now
we're so poor
anymore
Albino crow hops
from branch to branch
along the grass
digging deeper than he can reach
stones chipping tender beak
dirt and blood making mud
like a funeral shroud
piss-proud, he takes the summit
dripping death and intoxication
he says
see, I'm just like you
cock-a-doo
a-doodle-do
Mud Crow forgets
what he came to say
and it doesn't seem important
anymore
anymore
but from the rippled surface of his favorite bath
a stranger stares him down
and laughs
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
The Pledge of Allegiance
Documents were recently uncovered which prove without a doubt that the US Pledge of Allegiance was not, as previously thought, authored in 1892 by a Socialist Baptist minister.
This also proves that "Under God" was NOT added in response to the Red Scare of the 50s, but was there from the very beginning.
The actual author remains unknown, but recordings of George Washington presenting the pledge to the legislature were found on a steam powered MP3 player that had fallen behind a stack of Ben Franklin's erotic French lithographs in the library of congress where it lay forgotten for two hundred years until Lupe pulled the desk out to vacuum.
I present to you now, the full, unedited, complete transcript of this momentous occasion.