I realized yesterday that instead of aimlessly talking to myself all the time, I should turn on a camera and share my thoughts with the world. Videos are like blog posts, but a little more improvised and personal, which I like. I have lots of thoughts that don't make it onto the page, so my… Continue reading Three Short Poems And An Announcement
Category: Poems and Music
I’m Still Going To Be A Rockstar
When I was little, I thought a person’s career was programmed into them at birth. It never occurred to me that we each have a degree of choice when it comes to what we do for a living. As far as I knew when I was four, chefs are born chefs, comedians are born comedians,… Continue reading I’m Still Going To Be A Rockstar
Hummingbird/Skinny Jeans
A Poem he is a hummingbird he pollinates your mind and he drinks deep, deep he embodies what you want the world to be, be he flickers and flutters but he never stutters he looks better than your girlfriend in skinny jeans he wears his gender like his t-shirts, inside out he’s the… Continue reading Hummingbird/Skinny Jeans
Rabbit Hole/Smoke
drunken in the sweet perfume of the smoke between your lips I can no longer bear to know you I cannot bear what I have missed I still taste your smoke in my lungs long after the ashes have turned cold I am still looking for the sun from the bottom of your rabbit… Continue reading Rabbit Hole/Smoke
Surprise Update: I Published Another Book!
The book is called Borderline and you can buy it on Amazon here. It features dark poetry about sickness, lost loves, and other broken things. The book celebrates the rich depths of sorrow to which people are capable of plunging, and the beautiful things we find in the black holes we come across every now and again. This… Continue reading Surprise Update: I Published Another Book!
Sunlight Years
Listen to the song here. Sunlight Years I’ve written you a song, I rewrite it every year Hope you understand by now that I’m sincere Your eyes still let me know that everything will be okay Did you really think I’d let you get away? You’re glowing like the sun, you are light from the… Continue reading Sunlight Years
The Tea Song
Listen to the song here. The Tea Song I never sat right next to you in class before but I wanted to be next to you so today I took the chair right next to yours I fixed my hair and waited there but when you walked in you didn’t take that… Continue reading The Tea Song
Lullaby
Lulliby A Poem I’m used to being up when you’re asleep it gets worse the closer you are to me the world spins under your gentle breathing no one knows what you are dreaming miles away, I’m far from sleeping tonight you are not mine purple sky outside your window worries on the… Continue reading Lullaby
Clusterfuck Masterpiece
Clusterfuck Masterpiece A Poem sprawling mental utopia orbital insomnia locked in the universal hum familiar in silhouette lullaby in retrospect bound in love and time and chewing gum fields of creativity family of strangers flight of intimacy parody and clarity deliberate recklessness a little bit of mystery goes a long way … Continue reading Clusterfuck Masterpiece
Golden Gate
A Poem Listen to the song here: https://soundcloud.com/zoe-the-lemur-plait/golden-gate we painted rainbows on the sidewalks of the cotton candy Castro we built a bridge, and then another so we can always come back home we are giants, and the whole world knows we won when daylight fades to starlight we are the last to see the… Continue reading Golden Gate