Young
Young
afford permanent realize regretted strong
When you're 14, you don't realize how strong permanent is. I regretted it right away, but I couldn't afford to do anything about it.
draws magnet market money traders
When the market is moving, it's like a magnet that draws money and traders to it.
good might quality struggling
We might be struggling but those are two good quality pitchers. Dontrelle wasn't an All-Star for nothing. And Beckett, if he had been healthy, would have been an All-Star, too.
heart way pebbles
Here is a semi-transparent pebble I picked up on the way to my EKG. Probably worthless but it is my heart so take it.
bird cages
Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages.
want happy-endings cookbook
You want happy endings, read cookbooks.
mean errors mirrors
Just because a thing can't be done doesn't mean it can't be did. We all look into mirrors and see phantoms. Our error is our Eros. Why is there something instead of nothing? The answer is reckless and surreal.
song lying coats
You are made of bent coat hangers, honey, gravel, epoxy and handstands. I am made of lying on the floor, the same song on repeat.
sleep want pages
I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping.
taken rain ugly-things
but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud.
dream sleep writing
Poets are excellent students of blizzards and salt and broken statuary, but they are always elsewhere for the test. Any intention in the writing of poetry besides the aim to make a poem, of engaging the materials, SHOULD be disappointed. If the poet does not have the chutzpah to jeopardize habituated assumptions and practices, what will be produced will be sleep without dream, a copy of a copy of a copy.
moving life-is-hard darkness
You start with a darkness to move through but sometimes the darkness moves through you.
fall errors dumbasses
Hark, dumbass, the error is not to fall but to fall from no height. Don't fall off a curb, fall off a cliff.
sea enough slaughterhouses
Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.