you get tired of being told what to do, but so what?

 

BECAUSE THE TRUTH OF EVERY GOD IS A LIE

 

a target since the day you were born, a victim until the day you die

 

the dead man digs you, motherfucker

AVAILABLE NOW 

the nature of true disappointment

 

maybe the poem is written in rust-colored blood on a pale blue bedroom wall

 

JOHN SWEET AT 

CYBERWIT

hope for the hopeless, drugs for everyone else

 

everything the prophet said, and all the fools who doubted him

 

ORAZIO SALATI 

@

THE ROBERSON CENTER

 

tell your lover that each passing hour just pushes the book of passing days one page closer to the end

 

those last holy days in the kingdom of oblivion

 

the fine art of growing fat off the flesh of corpses

 

SOME

SMOOTH

FUCKING 

GRAVY

FROM

HIDDEN HAND PRESS

turquoise

 

words written in the street

 

on the sides

where the garbage collects

and all of them stained with salt

 

distant

like the voices of ghosts

or faint like the sun in february

and what she says is that she

doesn't want to fight anymore

 

where we are is the fraying edge

of someone else's city

 

seventy miles an hour and

the prayers that wrap around us like

rusty wire

 

the houses that have burned

and the ones

that are dying slowly

 

the fields where nothing grows

 

where christ is just a rumor

and the crows are all starving and

what she says is that she

thinks we're lost

 

what she says is that

the pills aren't working

 

and i take her hand and

think about what happens next

the dead man found on the bathroom floor

SOMETHING NEW

AND BEAUTIFUL AT

POETRY MIC 

not drunk yet, but moving in the right direction

 

NEW WORK AT

RED OGRE REVIEW

everyone is dead, and nothing ever dies

 

The 20th Annual Poetry E-Book Free-For-All

there's always some jerkoff who insists on getting shot to death

NEW WORK

ON THE WAY FROM

CYBERWIT,

BUT IN THE MEANTIME

THERE WILL ALWAYS BE

A WEALTH OF POVERTY 

every asshole dreams of the future

 

NOT EVERYTHING IS

ABOUT YOU

from

Apathy Press Poets

The best, just getting better..

myself, long after i've grown tired of that person

 

the government is your only true enemy

ONLY THE BEST AT

BOTTLECAP PRESS

 

you can start bitching about how things used to be without stopping to remember how goddamn miserable you were

 

HERE

how much broken glass are you willing to crawl over for a fix?

NEW WORK AT

LOTHLORIEN 

there is nothing more pure than the fine art of disappearing

 

WORK @

BRUISER MAG

no one dreams of the ghost they will become

 

COLLECTIONS FROM

CYBERWIT

i will either become my enemies or i will fuck them into submission

 

a merciful fist, an abundance of despair

PIKER PRESS,

WHERE EVERY WORD COUNTS

JOHN SWEET

 

always some idea of god just waiting to be laughed at

 

the need to choose between FUCKED and FUCKED UP

 and all of us drinking the blood of our enemies by John Sweet 

REVIEW

because anyone who demands your obedience will only ever be your enemy

 

the back yards all littered with dog shit, the bedroom carpets all reeking of pot

 Sour Winery #2 - by Vinegar Press - Sour Winery

your shadow crawling like cancer down the cracked and fading sidewalks of obsolete factory towns

 

THE LULU COLLECTION

as if the days are no more than christ’s naked body left for dead

 

this man with the gun says he needs to get high

NEW WORK

 

people were dying in the name of freedom

 Active Muse

for drinking the blood of those who would fight to keep you down

UGLY BEAUTY FOR

UGLY TIMES

ALL HAIL

HIDDEN HAND PRESS!

ORDER ENOUGH FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY

 

not a great nation, obviously, and not even the promise of it

 

one morning, you wake up dead

 

picture your life as a race to the top of a pile of corpses

 

the dead kids all know that hatred is an artform

So close.

It's actually a themed collection,

which I almost never do.

Still available for any publisher

who understands what the

future will look like. 

been january now for most of your life

 

what any of us choose to do in the face of tragedy seems irrelevant

 

the trick is finding questions with answers that actually matter