Living the cover up With the odd vacation to myself / Coda / KC, MO, / March 11, 2016 #poetry

 Under raps
Time spent
Developing the characters
Keeping the meals down
Second guessing the eyes
Of all those imaginary
Monsters 

Constructing a puzzle
Out of poker chips
And auto parts
Shoes strings, duct tape
Gummy worms
Sour grapes 

Taping our shoes
To look like duck fins 

Living the cover up
With the odd vacation to myself 

Living upside down is a bitch

Almost just as hard as
Facing a pack of tireless
Barking dogs that never ever
Sleep 

I met the Pope
and he seemed like a dope
I said how’s it to hanging?
And gave me a rope. 

This is not everything
This is not all bad
This is not even mostly bad 

The skyscraper lights hover
Like charged particles 
Drum beats flickering
In the hairy city streets 

Don’t know how to end it
Never great with endings
I don’t know how this will
End but I am sure donuts
Will probably be involved 

Next Show: Friday, March 11 @ Coda (KC, MO) w/ The Sexy Accident 

  

miniBar / KC, MO / March 5, 2016 #poetry 

 I’ve got smiles for miles and miles
Like fish in the sea 

Every one is different
Every one an ocean
With a million more fish
And twice as many smiling fish eyes
And hookless smiling mouths 

There are no sidewalks in the ocean
No traffic lights
No stars
No fucking mid westerners
Complaining about the coasts 

Blue and black
White fish flesh and cold cold blood
And very little fat
The water is always working in us
Reviving and pushing
We learn to push back
With our fins and gills 

We don’t need a mask
We don’t need a spear
We fly under water
We enter the colors
We leave blanketed
By the salt and the sand
The Rock
And the land

The cookies move within us
Repackaged
To look like other cookies.
We change our hair
We Change our friends but
Now is forever
Now is a forest of
Of love and friends
Let’s love it
Don’t worry about the cool people
You’re cool
I love you