the social vulture circles
livingrooms like the mojave
waiting for the inevitable
dead sentence to expire
and to swoop down and
put their hungry hearts to
devouring
friends
old songs
poetrymy life in memory
is beautiful and eternal
it includes
dramatic retellings
and for moments in real-time
i can spend years in the past
and all the people
whom i’ve torn apart
are there in whole
we never waste time to catch up
and we just pretend like nothing
ever changed.
unnoticed
poetrydrowning is the loneliest as
even sound can’t get to you
water floods your body
thoughts flood your mind
thoughts of your friend’s faces
rapt in moments of sheer ecstasy
but not saving you
like the particles moving
a r o u n d your outstretched arms
and when you first go down
you know
and your heart
it knows
and it matches the bpm of
all of the saddest songs
a slow shuffle for the
last dance
you’re a wallflower at
this slow dance
but the song never resolves
and you’re last thoughts
are cliche
like that song candle in
the wind, or whatever
you feel like one of those
candles, and you feel the
flicker and understand it
like you couldn’t before
when the understanding comes…
well
you know what happens then,
even now you do
like when you had nothing to
do so you just fell asleep.
for one night only
poetrywe’ll sit around
making joyful sounds,
focusing on our enjoyment,
not the inevitable postponement.
of when we’ll meet again
once again as a friend
and when we’ll once again share
our lives to show that we care,
despite the month that’s gone by
since that time that I dropped by,
and we played video games all night
and just had a small fight,
as a way of saying i love you;
as a way of saying i miss you.
good friends
poetryit might be slow to get going
but eventually it will
and when it does,
it will carry on,
ad infinitum,
and beyond,
for as long as we like,
never waning,
never lolling,
always good,
always too short,
until the time comes
and we have to go,
home,
away,
apart,
just when it started to get good.
Real
poetryYou know who your real friends are
Because they send you text messages
At 12:01 wishing you a “Happy Birthday!”
The rest just leave posts on your Facebook wall.
old songs and old friends
poetrysitting for hours
on hard chipotle benches,
barely noticed in the reminiscence
of times past,
of times to come,
of everything in between,
enjoying the moment
although we all know
that it won’t last,
that it will fade away
like a song from the past
that slowly disappears
and then one day is found
on a shuffled ipod
and immediately suspends time
for four minutes or so,
taking everything back
to the idealized past,
in which everything we shared
is remembered fondly,
improving on the reality,
which was good already.
At least until the drinking started
poetry“It’s so nice to be together
but to not feel like we have to talk,”
I found myself thinking
whilst driving with old friends
to whom I had no idea what to say;
and I all but convinced myself
that this was how it should be,
trying to not recognize the probability
that our friendship had passed away,
and that only a faint semblance remained.
of bullies, cronies, slaves, and friends
poetryYou are tough and strong
and possibly unbeatable,
and I might just hate you
despite my best efforts
and my best misgivings.
I’ve heard it said
that hate is just
the inverse of love
and while I’m drawn to
tear down misconceptions,
I tend to agree because I’ve
seen Smallville and Unbreakable.
And now, through thinking
analogously, I come
to the point and to the question:
Do I love you? (or) Do I hate you?
For there can be no in-between.
And while some may label my logic
a fallacious, false dilemma, I,
respectfully, disagree.
Returning to the analogues, you
are Ender, ripe with potential,
potentially holding the future
in your young but growing hands;
the strong respond in loving
confidence; the weak in fearful
violence, attempting to crush
before being crushed themselves,
yet Ender only crushed in self-defense.
So without the crushing weakness the
prospect of crushing destruction disappears;
if only I can be strong enough
to allow you to be strong, strong
enough to choose love, rejecting
the weakness of hate, responding
to you as a friend and not a foe.