some thoughts on waxing and waning lyrical like the moon
A civilized debate about a painful topic
flirting with the idea of dishonoring one’s muse
the compromised nature of poetry as we know it
what’s three percent between close family?
clued-in to ancient rites of passage
…but nowadays you can judge a book by its blurb
beard and loathsome in las vegas
a time for everything, and everything in its place
when the whole is greater than the sum of our hearts
She Stooped to Conquer (or Better to Have Loved and Lost a Foot Race than…)
some thoughts on those bits obituaries omit
the joys of looking a gift nightmare in the mouth
bypassing the heart of the mystery
Schlachthof Fünf — A Place of Carnage in Anybody’s Language
the eternal humdrum conundrum of why we writers write at all
the fate of all those faced with free will
save the last rain dance for me
all that jazz or an atonal contrapunctual fugue personality disorder-ing of the senses
an ode to the field of broken dreams
the craigslist crusader’s note to self
augury found in the smallest of things
a meditation on the undesirability of silence
Notes Towards a System of Higher Learning (A Cryptic Triptych)
memo from the man cave (no. 646)
okay, huston, we’ve got a far more immediate problem here
insomnia as an article of faith
the manifesto of the incommunicado commando
the happiness of a half-lived life
on heeding the omens of the nethermind
when did home become a four-letter word
when did home become a four-letter word (part II)
when did home become a four-letter word (part III)
you’ve been served by felix on lane 4
sleep as a higher purpose loan
A Toast to Living the Life Exalted
for love of peace is not a construct
an invitation to the after party
in which the 2nd Law of Empathy is considered…
a question of forsaken identity
(excerpt from) diary of an anonymous poet
Land’s End: Swimming to Byzantium
when the hunter becomes the hunted
The Doors of Perspection Cleansed
The Curse of the Queuing Beast
this makeshift experiment towards immortality we call poetry
A Conceit Owing Much to I Who is Someone Else
Thy Kingdom Come Undone — (The Song of the Vanquished)
Confessions of a Made Man (Libertarian Ethics Explained)
Love the Dreamer, Not the Dream
No Two Snowflakes are Ever the Same
Picturing the “Past Perfect” Perfectly
The Poet as Seasoned Traveller
An Insider’s Glimpse Before the Show
Stop Me, If You’ve Heard This One
The Vehicle is Only Half the Message
The Ballad of the Missing Zero
An Ode to Less Pedestrian Times
Pulling Faces in a Fun-House Mirror
Those Things That Should Not Be
The Phony Police Prank Phone Call
Unfinished Business — I Thought I Knew You Well
First Field Notes of a Visiting Alien Anthro-apologist
The Invocation of the Earth Mage
To a House-guest in the House of Bondage
Bosco dei Mostri (Monsters’ Grove)
Lapis Bellatores (The Stone Warriors)
January 6th, 2014 at 1:44 am
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