When I was four years old the boy next door came over to battle with green army men, or transformers or whichever plastic warrior of childhood were given to us by parents whose sole intention was to mold good strong men of us, but instead the boy, who was the same age and height as I, wanted to teach me how people on TV loved, so he took off his shoes, and I took off my shoes, and next came all our heavy clothes, so with nothing but space between us, we knew this to be a sacr

You are how they invented the world slender Stretched gold across your brow and dipped you into the river You are droplets on wet knees. The slits within the shutters The sine wave in the shimmer I found you by an airport. Somewhere along the New Jersey Transit When the train left the ground to blur And I could only see the tops of heads Bald and bouncing Behind a window a boy had painted with sticky fingers And somewhere in the thick Between blurred branches and paramours an

You do not want me around your children.... I will simply ruin them Teach them to walk on clouds And treat authority like the illusion it is... They will remain youth until such time that it is appropriate for them to put on the armor of their countrymen, take up the swords of their mothers and march into the abyss, and march on.... Not an eon before, not a single drop of blood after I'm horrible at dinner parties, and first dates I cant say what you want, my punchlines are a

Her name was Storm I chased her crossed state lines of tears flooding my already clouded thinking I've always been a Fool for Love A jester serving time wasted driving drunk on someone else's poetry Whether men or women warned of her patterns forecasting her reign of terrible temper meant nothing to me. Not enough light on the road for shadows A Crash Ensnares all the symbols that should be all too familiar But the airbag in my chest never listens It's been deployed too many