Author Archives: schwervon

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 

Show Poem: July 8, 2016 Hot Springs, AR @ Maxine’s #poetry 


Multiple licks of a dog’s tongue
Can wipe out many problems

Dancing friends, soft sheets
Try waking with love
Try staring at a rock for 10 seconds 

Deconstructing the wisdom of road signs
Camouflaging nature
If you stare long enough
Everything goes away 

Be careful with that fishing pole
You could poke your eye out

People are still hungry
They make cat litter out of corn 

The early bird catches the donut
All the donut shops are closed 

In 10 million years we
Will all be Cronuts 

Beautiful beautiful tree
Thank you for not being
A donut in my mind 

Hanging scarves on the wall
What are you trying to tell me 

The shiny rocks hold some special value
It’s not about money
There’s something in there
A beauty hidden within the earth
Or some dark cave
Cracking it open
Like an egg
It’s what we do

There is no reason before
The cave is part of the crack
The light reveals this to us
The cave is part of the beauty 

Show Poem: July 7, 2016 Fayetteville,AR @ Backspace #poetry 


Hey, Fayetvteille
Let’s let this one go 

Things stick out from the ground
Round things spin in the wind

Let’s risk an awkward silence

Pick a patch of grass by the road side
Wait until after  dark
Watch the souls leave all the dead things

Let’s not ponder our double chins…
Who’s ancestors were closest
To the mud snails 

We have no daughter to torture
No use for a house in the air 

Let’s darken ourselves with the sun
We pass through gates into
Empty fields
There are no fences
No lines to cross or step over 

DQ grill and chill
1000 paper cranes
Destroying mountains for the roads
Destroying roads for the music
Listening and rebuilding