brighton dental when doves cry disney family portrait tarzan hanging over pocahontas next to cinderella meeting trace on the screen silver hair middle part pharmacy drive through practice turning and facing one time it's a bad joke the other time it's and inevitable warm childish half spin to ease desire’s reverse breath the kitchen grows every day the dahlias and basil grow i am in the unknown lightness not confidence but maybe a scent of setting peace a white clock with tooth roots legs and sounds beyond the force of suction
Maybe 500 poems about
times I felt hurt or angry
will help
I remember being in my little studio in LA
back in 2014
realizing what art was for
I don't remember what I thought it was in that moment
but I remember the feeling
Today I'm thinking about
things that are hard to let go of
That I know I need to let go of
The way that everyone has always said
to let go of hope about my family, like it's a thing
I forgot to put on my to-do list
That I can not, just can not, figure out how
to let go of hope
Liz and I were on the bed in my basement and she was
describing with complete conviction that, for her,
singing her songs and religious ritual
are exactly the same
i see it now
throwing something into that impossible gap
This isn't really a poem it's just a stupid
journal entry broken up into little lines
“Took Her to the O” is so catchy that it took me 5 years to stop and wonder why King Von’s date is down for this excursion, like, “Oh cool. O’Block sounds romantic,” especially when Von’s being such a lame dick. It’s possible Von is an unreliable narrator, and he was really talking like a simp to her IRL at the store and in the car, then acting all hard for the audience. But maybe it really did go down like he said and his date has codependency issues. This is a list poem of bad ideas for dates I’ve been invited on by various men who probably dislike me as much as Von seems to dislike his love interest:
Pick up package at FedEx warehouse
Watch him play pool
Double date with Jeffrey Epstein
Double date with his dad, who talked about being a date rapist
Double date with a woman he was cheating on me with
Watch him shoplift a shrimp platter at Gristedes and eat it in the park
Tour temples featured in “Tomb Raider”
Some kind of bike expo at Javits Convention Center
Hike (ugh)
Assist him on a shoot
Medieval Times with his entire family
Scuba diving (the mf knew this was my one fear)
Burp Castle (lol wtf)