Slept on the floor
Sucking the face of the morning
Stumble out to Farragut
Where your father "lives"
Dip in the creek
Like some Suburban baptismal
Remember the time
You were still five?
Coke bottle highway
Pickup for candy
Seersucker G.I.
Bill sprawled out of town
And the Vol Navy
Will send in the SEALS
Led by Walruses
In SunCatcher pontoons
The haze will settle on old Fort Sanders
Been clean for two years
This is why I had to
I heard you moan in paperthin closets
Took you home excited off of bad words
Ended up in Mule Hollow all wasted and cashed out
Drove toward that giant Gold Ball
Like some Kubrick Baal
Then the Angels in the Outfield Stumbled me up the hillside
And I slept til 4:30 and we had to lie
The drive home was awkward like the way broken legs look
"So now that you've done it, don't you want to die?"
No wonder we're fucked up from all the sad crickets
Who won't play when fights go all night
And only get lonely when we're thinking
And wash out our pre-dreams and turn out the light
So let's all get real cool and go to the mountains
Sit by the dark rocks and moss ourselves down
Wade in the thick icy fingers
And sail miniature sailboats in kneehigh socks
Once I slept while a bear was secondhand Krogering
Next to our car, I practiced fake sleep
My parents they tried to crack my silence
But I hung limp like mom's cousin's wrist at the grill-out
Treat me like Clinch and 12th where I summered
And wintered the hard times with temporal thrill
Timeshare emotions get trashed every season
Especially when Spring Break never ends
Monday, November 30, 2009
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Relegation to Coupon Clipping
Dreaming of the end days and how many girls I'll kiss
Stage diving into despair politics
Because time's got my shit on lock
I'll teeter on that totter
Wayne loading me with Porsche dreams
And James Dean things
And maybe I'll go out and never come back
But keep coming back
I'll keep coming back
I always do.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Defenestration
Defenestration of the Latin Rite:
Catholics claimed that angels saved them
Protestants claim that they landed in shit
Maybe both were right
Untitled
My next door neighbor was a Berger,
She dressed her kids as condiments on Halloween.
She huffed keyboard cleaner and copied Pollock
with her blood.
Crosseyed and teary, garden hose playground driveways
Ramps for your babies into devotion to war.
Lifejacket riot vests and hockey stick Non Lethals
We can go down to Kosovo
We'll get there faster if we take it slow
That's where we wanna go - way down to Kosovo
Algeria
We once held each other in parks
And the fur really flew
I'd bring you lunch
Til' you retired and died
Your grandpa fell in Algeria
Crying to his mother
Non Kosher ways to go out
His own personal Eucharist
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Exurb Excerpt
Pruning the tree of knowledge and arguing semantics with Ophidia.
God sent that snake.
It writhes blackly with yellow stripes in the exurbs.
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