too
yeah
a thousand times
my generation
the world
as it is
us
Category: Poetry
Notes
the books inside my mind the words i heard that made me feel good or bad chances i had to speak when i didn’t and chances i didn’t have to speak because my mind was not packaged properly
Note to Men of their Time
Dear Fathers,
You founded us wanting. We’re still in this agreement with hell. If you couldn’t tell right from wrong what does it matter what you meant to say? You should stay in the past where you belong.
Sincerely,
Pursuing Happiness
Witch Note
it can happen like that
not having a comeback
caught feeling deflated
encapsulated in
someone’s head as
dead on arrival
no trial just denial
no survival just revival
Make a Note of It
did you say i did what i said you did?
did i say you did what you said i did?
did i say i said you said what you did?
did you say what i said i said you did?
did you say i say you do what you did?
did you say you did what i said you did?
did you say i said i did what you did?
Note to Note Taker
Fool me once and wipe your tracks. Fool me twice and slap my back. You’re the fool cuz I’m cool, chillin’ with the facts.
He Said She Said We Said
I’ve been performing this poem for more than a decade…but it seems timely…
Note the Time
It’s been a tragedy
since before it was again.
There’s no hack
to go back
to before it began.
Note to Mr. Nasty
You made your bed
with dirty sheets.
You cooked your goose
in vinegar wine.
You sowed your crop
in a toxic dump.
Note to Miss
the pair Aid share Aid
the me tingyting doe nuts
the burro crack it
hire malarky
patree archery
farcity rah rah
hah hah
Note to Pay a Tension
eggs specked
a smack attack
a cure for
ad d*cks
a lure to
slave a child
Love Note
my morning glory
is silhouetted
in sunlight.
the world can wait.
we’ll be late.
Repetition in Performance
“Repetition” is a poem I’ve been working on for a little while. This is a freestyle version with Shannon Hoover on bass and Matt Dingledine on guitar. The gig at the Five Forks branch of the Greenville Public Library, back in April 2019, was sponsored by the library. They reached out to the Greenville Jazz Collective to provide a program of jazz and poetry, so then the GJC reached out to me for the poetry. I would still like to work on an arrangement for this piece, especially including some percussion, and then record it…
And Note This
i never
asked for
your opinion
still not
won’t ever
Note to Reply
style Your Own hair
shut Your Own mouth
cover Your Own chest
cross Your Own legs
discuss Your Own body
question Your Own motives
Note to State
Note to State
of being
self
selfless
one and a sum
me
no one
movin’ on
here and gone
Note to Witch
Note to Witch hunted in plain sight
sun on your face
you go about in haste
no time to waste
with weightless words
Love Note
i swear i fly
it’s no lie
i sprout wings
that carry me in
the updraft of
our sighs
oh my
so high
dizzy and free
as me
Love Note
it’s way too late
actually
it never should have
got this far
the pigeons never left
there’s a do not disturb sign
the roost is stank
Note About Time!
it’s way too late
actually
it never should have
got this far
the pigeons never left
there’s a do not disturb sign
the roost is stank
Note Imagine
Noting the Season
i didn’t realize at the moment
that Dad died that i
was a leaf at the moment when
it falls from the tree.
i have been adrift.
my hair has changed color.
i bristle at the breeze that will
lay me down; i am free as
the direction of the wind.
Note to Watch for Which
nothing to look for
but a situation
witch exists
off the grid
no disguise
no hat
Notification
of testifornication
justimification
hopelesslyhopingness
happifilly fully load mode
oilamoremoremore-I-can
wee are fakefully weighting for Just Is
Note my Life
cook clean chop shop
bake rake make…
drive arrive leave
weed wash water
write
Note from Humanatee
thua mined is a terra bull thing
Note Invited
I’ve been told
I’m old to complain
that my so-called friend
comes around the bend
unexpected & uninvited,
Witch Hunt
splainglish for duh Nile
while witches cast spells
in wishing well
that wee might bees
More Likes Manatees
Which Hunt
which witch on a which hunt?
witch author it he said
may she rest in pieces
she was knot a witch
Love Note
Deep breathing is how to stay in Love year after year never fear where Love will go or come from flowing through you and around you pluck it from the air and let it stay there too between me and you.