what is it in this that i find so anomalous, so outside the paradigm, that brings me back again and again, every evening, chasing her through my thoughts then catching her in my arms. tracing my fingers down her slender back, the curve of her spine, her skin is so soft it feels dangerous to…

close to the devil in the fire and ether, shaking and hissing, chanting, eyes rolled back, this rhythmic compulsory madness. roiling ink on every page and a cigarette clamped between jagged and angry teeth, a product of this environment divided back into our terminus. the devil lives in vodka and smoke, between tangled sheets and…

every night this decision must be made, to break in half or take it whole, this small ovular mechanism that will regulate my thoughts and actions, my words, my many wasted dreams, my general momentum. several factors must be taken into consideration, more than are fully understood, how many terrible thoughts were there today, how…

they lord, forgive them for what they do not know, forgive them for their conceived notions of your will and your testament, they lord, they know not who they be. they lord, let them clamor across the earth from city to city, desert to desert, locking arms and swaying in the dead air, let them…

don’t let god crush you in his hand, his is a hard world to endure and he a hard spirit to appease that does not accept sacrifice, this place is purgatory with pine trees that skirt the heavens and brush the clouds, the gray sky a manifest of your heart as it waits here, as…

I AM THE SUN i shout each day at the zenith of my crossing. i follow a rhythm inherent to existence itself and no formulas nor suppositions can unravel its reasoning. the harmonic waves of the universe are echoed in solar tsunamics and as i burn i burn through and through, an orange heart too…