Monthly Archives: July 2016

Show Poem: July 15, 2016 Cincinnati, OH @ The Comet #poetry 


As the giant slowly removes
His foot from my chest 

I awake 

In dreams we make love to the fat
Play cards with the pilots
Pick my teeth with tree branches 

The morning is filled
With dirty carpet
And minor victories

Broken noses and
Stressed out waiters 

The quiche of the day
Is melting in the glove box 

Sticky rain and foggy windshield
The rules change with each pit stop

You’ve become kind with the
Dependence of strangers 

Coincidentally stereotyping
Scolding the scolder
Learning how the faucet works 

The hands are not always out to get you
Sometimes they are there to wave
To hold the flowers
Show us where the wind
Is blowing from 

The cat at the top of the stairs
Has been waiting for us
His eyes are speaking like Alien waves
We must get very close to hear them 

We must risk the hisses
and the sandpaper tongue 

Who knows?
It could be good news

Show Poem: July 14, 2016 Murray, KY @ Terrapin Station #poetry 


Charlie horse wake up
A future always yet to be determined 

Bananas are great.
I love bananas so fucking much 

But I was never meant to eat them

Inseminating silences
Aborting pregnant pauses 

The river is unstoppable
But easily avoided 

Discs of oil
Rays of light
Miles of tape and plastic wrap

Forgetting to remember
Remembering to forget 

Not fighting the repetition
Holding hands
Feeling the breeze on the tops
Of our arms 

Do you know the way to Dancyville?
Should we take the Music Highway? 

There is corn on the way
And perhaps a golf cart or two.
Churches and grave yards
Horses and more corn.
There will be long slow hills
And if we’re lucky, local honey 

Mountain clouds and a belt for all sizes
The air is fresh here
Even when it’s smokey
We blow it around
Feel it on our faces.
It whistle up our pants legs
Give us a little tickle in the rear

The air is not so bad here.
Love is in the air.
It can be
We must cherish it 

Show Poem: July 9, 2016 Memphis, TN @ Lamplighter Lounge #poetry 

Like an enormous goat
Eating it’s way through life 

Never stopping to consider
What is going in 

The machine teeth
Crushing the succulents 

Pushing shit down the tube

Like an old soul
The eye in the rock
Is slowly opening

I can feel the breath
Like the door of
An ancient cave 

We learn by watching
The way things break 

The wind is telling us
How to forge our tools

Hauling assets
The best move for the money 

Sardines bathing in oil
I salute
Their life giving death 

Greasing my digits
Bones dance for them 

Rubber snakes along the roadside
Scaring us with the purity of their selfishness

They light themselves on fire
Insert themselves into the mouths
Of Eagles

We taste what they taste
With every bullet
With every smile
We taste what they taste