First Avenue Downtown San Diego
So I beat the pavement
for a while
dirty shoes keeping time
black teeth,
drowned in coffee,
feeding time from a weak mind,
drenched by the poison cloud
of downtown haze,
I head toward the ocean,
for a piece of salt breeze,
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Let’s eat out all the time
If you’d looked
At anyone
Else like that, they’d
Have taken you for a vile
Specimen
I guess I don’t
Know any
Better
Ha
Ha
It’s OK to laugh
When you’re
Not around,
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Pirate
Your father burnt you in ways
That make the nights long and wrecked
In a way that my tongue
Free of blasphemy and coarseness cannot soothe
Your father told lies with his hands
Now you walk without delicateness or trepidation
Look at you plundering the seas, sea plunderer!
Taking what you can, sea plunderer! Pirate! Read the rest of this entry »
Inspiration
found at the bottom of a can of beer
or in the midst of the final
exhale of pot smoke
a good book
a bad book
a song that makes sad people happy Read the rest of this entry »
drive by lover
the soft gasp of your surrender is deafening
in the fast lane i steal your breath
because i need fuel to rev up my idle heart
my tongue aches to dance inside your womb Read the rest of this entry »