Tag Archives: Poetry

Show Poem: September 5, 2017 Lansing, MI @ The Fledge #poetry 

Talk of death over muffins
Overcoming the unfortunate
Political associations of
Taco bowls at Macho Mas

Not waiting for inspiration
I will inspire. Then I wait…

Standing here at life’s grand ledge
Pineapple dreams
Luxury in flux
Every imperfection is a diamond
Waiting to be cut out

Is it too early to touch you
My favorite is the no hands style
Where I sleep another hour
And you stop waking me up
With your breathing.

The writing is on the wall
Until it’s painted over
And someone writea on top of that
And then someone hangs a
Pairing over the writing

Staring at the chair
Sitting on a work of art

A TV in every pot
No one cares about tv any more
People care about the dance
The dance in everything
Everything is about the dance
There is a dance in every little thing

Show Poem: September 1, 2017 Omaha, NE @ BFF Fest: Barley Street Tavern #poetry 

I awake covered in dead lines
Ghostly tatoos of a previous life

Compartments inside of compartments
A spirit animal with no idea
She is being left left behind

A temporary celebration of new glasses
Beware of low ceilings
And pre show injuries
Light rain that smears your windshield
Pizza and wings
Artisan ice
The champagne of bottled beer

Air conditioned nightmare
No discounts for artists

Side by side
The worst and the best
Cross the street
Come inside
This space will confuse you
This space will make you work
For your food
There are no free loaders here
No false idols

Just a space
To drown in if you choose
Or to develop

29 Summers left
Who knows
September is in the air tonight
She likes to change things up
Look at her past
Look in her eyes
This is where it all begins
Yesterday
Tomorrow
Right here
Her eyes are where it starts
And will start again

Show Poem: August 2, 2017 KC, MO @ Records With Merritt w/ Moe A. Barria + When Particles Collide #poetry 

I am lucky
Lies are are not easy
For you

For me they are a sweet static
That sings me to sleep

The traffic noise
And words of paternal love
I can never confirm

The language of animals
Is full of deceit
You are my beautiful
True human
Tear filled eyes, shaking and
Screaming at the evolution

Tell me not to worship that.
Tell me to stop stabbing
Myself with television.
They give me thumbs when
I need water.

I grow antlers in your presence.
I grow and grow,
And that’s how I know.