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You're A Snark Darkness
2017-2020
see the illustrations here or pick up a copy with the artwork on my etsy shop in black and white or in color. This includes my previous two poetry collections as well.


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Table of Contents
  • *Icarus
  • Winter Gave Me
  • Affirming Steps
  • Fallen
  • Reality
  • *Mind Miner
  • Out Of The Way
  • Sure I Would Love To
  • I Am Repairing A Robot
  • In The Guillotines Of Time
  • *Time Traveler Love
  • I Want Beauty
  • When Things Are Going Bad
  • Sometime In April
  • Temporarily
  • You Are A Great And Powerful Wizard
  • Some Slivers
  • *The Joy Of Being Alive
  • Held Close
  • I Felt Fleeting
  • Only You And I
  • I Like Being Here
  • It's Friday Night
  • Now I Am A Wolf
  • *Her Twin's Eyes
  • Heart Thump
  • I Remember
  • It's A Good Thing
  • I Traveled
  • *On Being A Writer
  • Two Indifferent People Meet
  • Just Take A Deep Breath
  • *Bright
  • “Divine Intervention”
  • *We Kept The Lie Alive
  • Foreshadowing
  • Where Is The Queen?
  • *Exchange
  • Shit List
  • Writing Poetry
  • Your Name
  • Black Sock
  • *You Know
  • Figs And Wasps
  • Doppelganger
  • *Tea And Machines
  • Visit Me Godzilla
  • Go For It, Dude
  • *She Asked
  • I Must
  • *Entropy
  • Five Seconds To Tea
  • I Wish I Could Go Back
  • Leak
  • *Flowers Or The Worst Day
  • Restless Night With You
  • Darkness
  • Small
  • Rest
  • The Colors Of Life
  • Who Do You Think Won?
  • *Fail Hard To Regain
  • Introduction
  • Life For Possibility
  • *35%
  • Everywhere A Fucking Fuck
  • You Are
  • Glaring Compliment
  • *One Memory Of Love
  • Light And Dark
  • Man Bird
  • Her Whispered Words
  • Thank You
Icarus
The sun is my love
and I fly with joy toward the light,
hoping my wings can withstand
the heat of your heart.

But even if I fall again to the featherless ocean,
flying is my right,
and I'll find a way to be with you sun.

Yes this time, surely, I will stay with the light.


Winter Gave Me
Winter gave me
a lot of shit
to grow flowers with
in spring.

Affirming Steps
Step 1) Give a shit.
Step 2) Give fewer shits.
Step 3) Reassess.
Step 4) Give no fucks.
Step 5) Give many fucks.
Step 6) Reassess.
Step 7) Reaffirm giving no fucks.

Fallen
The more gods you meet,
the more you see fall from grace,
forget their magic and
flail in being merely human.

It's a sad sight.


Reality
You peer through
culture,
emotions,
memories.

You peer through
television screens,
window panes,
sun shades.

You peer through
your eyes.

If you always look through something,
at what point do you see reality clearly?

Mind Miner
Please, I'm sorry,
I am a miner in the deep caverns of the mind.
There is only so far I can take you before
the darkness becomes dangerous and
you must stay behind in the light
with the beacons of being alive.

You see, the jewels I keep beyond here
are only for those once graced with death's dear
desire to die in the dark.

They are beautiful,
but don't come any further,
turn back to your joys in the jewels of light.

Out Of The Way
Everyone was getting out of the way for you to arrive,
bowing their heads to their queen,
giving space for you and I.

Sure I Would Love To
Sure I would love to
feel you up, and
cuddle you,
kiss you,
fuck you,
but I sure don't think
we'd like each other
afterward.

I Am Repairing A Robot
I am repairing a robot
the wasps and moss
took over:

"shooo, shoo, shoo!"

You are shiny and mine.

In The Guillotines Of Time
I am vividly aware
of my death,
my soul,
my connection to the cosmos
as stardust now on Earth.

Any moment it may happen,
this body may shatter,
the blood spill,
the wrinkles corrode,
the organs fail,

and I will become what I am already.

Time Traveler Love
Being in love
with a time traveler
is difficult,
chasing her shadow
through the ticktock
of the clock

like a bat flying fast
in a sky dimly lit with stars.

Holding onto that twirl
of red thread,
we're still
somehow
connected,

and I whisper
every great while
when the ends
whirl together in the wind,
"I love you,
I love you,
I love you."

I Want Beauty
I want beauty but
I live in an ugly country
in an ugly city
in an ugly house
in an ugly room
in an ugly body
in an ugly mind
that refuses to see the beauty all around.

When Things Are Going Bad
It's relieving to hear that
you are suffering too.

Sometime In April
I stopped
trying
as
hard.

Temporarily
I discovered that
there is hope where you
least expect it,

temporarily

until just as you
think the golden chalice
is yours,
it
turns out being
aloof and
too preoccupied
with
saving the fairy kingdom.

And respite returns to
hopelessness

temporarily,

until remembering
a sense of security in
that the government still
knows everything
about you.

This gives you great relief.

You Are A Great And Powerful Wizard

Poof puff pablamy!
You are a
wonderful,
fantastical,
whimsical,
magical,
and powerful
wizard of wise ways

I see it,
I know it,
I deem it true!

here are some tasty and tantalizing
spells that you can take on your tall travels,
so please potently do.

Zip zang zippidy-zo!
I'd first like to tell you about
a thought that you can sow

thinking
I love
me,
you,
the world too.
I love
me,
you,
the world too,
I love
me,
you,
the world too.

I see it,
I know it,
I deem it true!

Blurgle-lurgle, hurgle-murgle!
Movements make masters of
magicians,

dancing daintily then dangerously,
smile stupendously
to share serenity.

I see it,
I know it,
I deem it true!

Fru fo fibbity fab!
Feelings free folk from
fallen futures,

loving, crying, sighing, shouting,
emoting energies to
open honesty.

I see it,
I know it,
I deem it true!

Sakka takka la wakka!
Words weave wondrous webs
with weathered wisdom.

Read aloud
remembered memories cast in
ink labeled
stories, adventures, fantasies, mysteries
containing the etymology and histories
of the poof puff pablamy!

You are a
wonderful,
fantastical,
whimsical,
magical,
and powerful
wizard of wise ways.

I see it,
I know it,
I deem it true!

Some Slivers
Some slivers
you must
dig out
with a
knife.

The Joy Of Being Alive
The lions wanted me to meet you,
coordinated through a three step funky waltz on time
before
mercilessly
ripping out
every
atom of ego.

You didn't make a sound,
but I could hear your scream louder than
a murder of a million crows cawing:

Why would you live for anything but
the joy of being alive?

You have a point.

Held Close
Being held close helps
sometimes.

Being held
horizontally,
undressed,
while making out
for a really long time
helps more.

I Felt Fleeting
I felt fleeting
in search of
that word,
tasted like a memory,
smelled of the moon,
looked like mother.

Only You And I
Only you and I
will remember the
sex drugs and sadness
down by a year of time.

The dog is going to die.

I Like Being Here
I like being here
above the roaring river;
you cannot hear the robots
and their rip roaring revving
beep boops.
All that's left is that memory of you
and an awkward bottle of honey whiskey watching sunset shimmers;
you always have to wonder what those rocks feel like.

The robots whisper,
the bottle dry,
the sunset faded,
demigods die too.

It's Friday Night
It's Friday night
and I can't overcome
the fear
of going back in time.
So I stay right here,
drinking my wine.

Now I Am A Wolf
We ran together like a pack of blood soaked wolves.
Yeah,
once upon a time
we drank gold from ruby goblets,
bathed in the celestial glow of starlight,
spoke poetry to black holes.
Yeah,
we were bad asses,
the coolest shit in the universe,
and now we aren't.
That thing that sometimes happens,
it happened.
And now I am a wolf.

Her Twin's Eyes
Her twin's eyes have faded,
stolen by the promises of a robot machine
looking for safe truths;
burned images of somewhere
to nowhere behind the retina.

An eerie exchange,
I wonder what she's looking at
when she looks at me?
Perhaps
dragonflies in summer,
the meaning of the letter Z,
molecules of water,
knowing with certainty that the dog is going to die;
she never even saw me.

Heart Thump
Heart thump
the thump split
split wood on rocks
giant rocks at the ocean
the ocean is moving with the moon
moon magic
I wanted to say a magic word
but that word is lackluster
it grows lackluster lavender
all I want is to smell lavender fields in Summer
the Summer is still Winter
Winter provides ample opportunities
opportunities are squahsable
squashable like heart thumps.

I Remember
I remember
the hot crush
of red red red
lipstick
on a burning flag
a teacup at
a time
too late,

and all
I can wonder now
is if
you're dead.

It's A Good Thing
It's a good thing that time exists for
all you on the tick-tock of clocks,
because
otherwise,
you might see god,
every sorrow and joy that you miss,
and think of me
as quite disgusting.

I Traveled
I traveled a long distance
to get away from you:

Over the hills and through the meadows,
into flame and under the earth,
to new continents and wild dreams.

But you're still here,
aren't you?

On Being A Writer
On being a writer:
If you can't sleep, you write.
If you're angry, you write.
If you're in love, you write.
If you are on fire, you put out the fire, and you write.
If the world is about to end, you write.
If you are dead, you write.
If time and space cease to exist,
you write.

Two Indifferent People Meet
Two indifferent people meet.
Everything becomes very difficult.

Just Take A Deep Breath
As you starve to death,
are burned alive,
the guillotine lops off your head,
you are incinerated by a nuclear blast:

just take a deep breath,
you'll feel better.

Bright
Bright!
Bright like the cloudy falling sunset
red orange purple pink and darkening blue blue blue.

Brighter still on the peacock's tail.

Bright bright bright
moon light!

Bright like a bonfire burning ablaze in a smoldering glow.

Bright like fireworks boom booming.

Brighter and brighter and brighter
like grass green meadows of birds chirping.

Bright! Bright and yet brighter still!
Bright like the crescendo of songs sung by an ocean choir.

Bright like a hundred candles whispering flickering.

Bright like hope.

You are bright.

“Divine Intervention”
Today a duck visited me,
flying in alone from the south.

He stared directly at me before
taking a step forward
and making one of those
sounds that ducks make.

I had to wonder if
he was in fact the Buddha
attempting to bless me
with divine wisdom.
Or maybe he was
some spiritual apparition.

But you see, I have a fear
of wild and even domesticated
animals approaching me
unannounced, especially
when they do not
speak my language.

I stood up,
he paused.

I gathered my things
And he walked a full
circle around
the tree I had been laying against.

The duck looked at me
one last time
before flying
back south.

I have my regrets, but
maybe you just wanted food.

I definitely wasn't going to give you any food
unless you told me secrets about the universe.

Overall if you were some spiritual manifestation,
you didn't do a great job at it.

So, until next time, “divine intervention”
get your shit together.

We Kept The Lie Alive
We kept the lie alive
by feeding it
macaroons, grapes,
chocolate cake with strawberries on top, and
very fine wines.

We taught the lie to sit, shake, and roll over.

The lie learned how to trust us.

And at the end of every night we would say,
good little lie,
yes you are.

Foreshadowing
I know that you're not going to listen to me
but
at least my unsolicited advice
can act as
foreshadowing
for your shitty life ahead.

Where Is The Queen?
I'm wandering aimlessly
through the night,
mingling with a glow of stars
as I wonder where the
queen is.

Maybe she decided to dance in
some other universe tonight,

Maybe there is no queen, only
a fixated fascination,

or maybe,
just maybe,
I
am the queen.

Exchange
We exchanged
a pleasant round of banter
before you
tried cutting
off my head
and oh how I ran,
savoring the sweet words that
meant,
perhaps,
finally,
I had met a friend.

Shit List
I'm looking for people
to go on my shit list.
It can fit
an infinite number of you
lousy fuckers,
so don't be shy,
sign up today.

You get free glares for life
and terrible gossip.
What's not to love?

Writing Poetry
Writing poetry
is like
making a wound
clot with blood,
and whenever
I see you,
I need
to write a poem.

Your Name
You drank
three glasses at the watering hole
like a curious crow
and perhaps we met once upon a time
and perhaps your colors mingle with mine
and perhaps you know god and that fire,
but,
your name
your name
your name
I cannot remember.

Black Sock
Every day I sit by a tree,
by the tree is always a sad black sock.

The sock and I listen to
trains choo-chooing and cars vroom vrooming.

I think we are very much alike.
The sock tells me things about the universe and
I write them down.
I tell the sock about my troubles,
and the sock doesn't care.

I'm not friends with the sock,
I actually find the sock to be
quite disgusting and gross.
It shouldn't be there at all,
but I'm too apathetic to do anything about it.

You Know
You know,
the button dropped
gold grounded
by time-lapsed historians
paving over ghosts
of the forest.

Do you hear
the whispers of this town?

The cats tell tales
nestled among a rich spring bloom,
The dog, the grandmother, who is next?
Death is rich and cursed with purple.

There's been a murder
of the mind,
Just look at the children
grasping for roots
in lucid dreams.

Don't you see you need seeds?

Figs And Wasps
As my home burned to the ground,
she handed me a giant bag of green figs,
and I wondered if I could be in love
like figs and wasps are.

Doppelganger
You meet people who are reiterations of your past,
the ghosts,
and you already know how it will play out
but maybe there is hope in this hilarious situation.

Things are a little different this time:
you're wearing a new shirt, practice meditation, and know how to cook spaghetti al dente.
A doppelganger who knows nothing about that past, that person, their other.

This is a fresh start,
but I have a feeling
it's bound to catch on fire again.

Tea And Machines
I finished my tea
and began walking from the heart,
through throngs of jubilant machines
eating
drinking
fucking
carrying out their preordained cacophony.

I walked further,
thinner were the machines
like wolves guarding passageway
to the grand party.

And then came the silence
of stray lights.
Resting were these forgotten machines,
safe and ready for the morning sun.

Visit Me Godzilla
Today I saw an ex-lover,
like a beautiful portrait of a monster
sipping coffee,

and an old acquaintance
I couldn't remember the name of
said a blurry
hello,

and two people I once considered friends
stood by idly exploring
the expanses of possibility,

and sometimes
I just wish that Godzilla
would come and visit me.

Go For It, Dude
I was hesitant to kiss her until
I met with the Grim Reaper
and the sickle of death said,
go for it,
dude,
I'm coming for you soon.

She Asked
She asked
me who I was
But what could I say to that?

Six years ago,
we became so strangely connected.
Do you remember who you were
six years ago?

You're living the dream and I'm in a box
we told each other.

Maybe it's because the cats have been visiting me again:
there on the pathway scurrying skittish into the bramble,
looking distantly forlorn in a window,
and through the front door begging for something more.

Yesterday they tore the beating heart out of a bird's chest and ate his head.
Perhaps that is how it feels.

There is death creeping closer.
“Sister,
grandmother,
friend,”
it says,
“I will carry you
far beyond the rivers again
where the only love
is from
those small moments
you could have had.”

Time is
slipping
and asking how to weave a starry night sky with ocean waves.

You left,
and the cat is meowing.

I Must
Last night the rain poured down in soothing gusts,
a pittering pattering attempting to
form this new season's trust
and producing a very fine musk.

But it is for the gods and demons that I lust,
so I must
I must
I must
find you in this quickly fading dust.

Entropy
Oh behold the dazzling colors and smells of flowers,
the marble sidewalks and bronze streetlamps,
the elegant silverware and fancy dishes,
the painted strokes of a masterpiece,
the love at first sight,
those muscles,
the curves!

Yeah, um,
hi, my name is entropy
and I'm coming for you
all.

Five Seconds To Tea
Time is not on my side
with death swinging that scythe
to the rhythm of random seconds.

I walk in and hope is there,
looking me in the face.

I like to think that she has a
secret crush on the
person I could be.

The room is uncomfortably crowded
and in the corner
is one of those other people.

She looks a little older
and I wonder how soon she'll die,

but she's not dead right now

so I leave,
without any love,
or tea.

I had been attempting
to change my life for the better,
but the spaces I emptied
became filled with shadows of
the past
and pulled me under.

Outside I'm standing in a junkyard,
waist deep in the refuse and rubble
of kingdom come.

The heap
is bountiful,
and sometimes beautiful,
but any gems are buried deep.

I see a god
walking by
but she is sick
and can't last much longer.

It's fly or fall, so who would want to rule over garbage?

The seconds run past,
but maybe next time there will be
tea,
hope,

love.

I Wish I Could Go Back
She sat there in the sunlight
looking like the ghost of love,
ethereal and lost in memories,
with hands griping a steaming mug
and releasing a heavy sigh,

She said, so slowly,
with the delicacy of a field of flowers,
and the sadness of the moon,
“I wish I could go back.”
Leak

There is a hole in my head,
and each time I lay down
a part of my past leaks out
staining my sheets
the colors of
anger, anxiety, and that goddamned ghost.

Perhaps I drink wine in hopes
of finding a cork that fits.

Flowers Or The Worst Day
When you find yourself at the
very bottom of everything
and look patiently, carefully, willingly,
in the dark you will see a small god
smiling.
Yes she will lift you up and carry what remains
right to the Emperor himself
and face to face with such power
you can take flowers or
the worst day of your life.
It's your choice at the bottom of everything.

Restless Night With You
I've enjoyed sleeping with birds and tigers, bears and snakes,
but laying down with you is a restless night
as we bite and gnaw on what we hope is true.

Darkness
I fled the campfire of
strangely happy people
to go be alone with the ocean waves.
I met a shadow there who showed me fireflies in the sand, then
stood watching the darkness.
And in that moment she came for me,
falling from the sky,
the shooting star landing in my mind.

Small
I hid in the bushes,
black as night
with distant worlds beaming into my mind.
Do not see, speak, smell, think, feel, taste, hear.
Each has become an anger crushing hearts.
Small small small.
I will be safe
and survive.

Rest
I go to bed dull, cracking, fading into darkness,
I wake up shiny shiny new.

The Colors Of Life
The emperor gave me these flowers,
so I must live,
I must fly,
ready to show you
the colors of life.

Who Do You Think Won?
A duck visited me,
A tree branch fell on my head,
bugs crawled all over,

Let me just dig a hole in this ground and
lay there quietly and sad for five million years.

On a sign it will read:
here the man spoke to God,
ready with a knife to strike.

Who do you think won?

Fail Hard To Regain
I wonder if you played that
album over and over again
to give me a soundtrack
to mourn you by.

Six years later I'm driving down the highway
noticing all of our favorite corporations
singing loudly about themselves.

Why, there was Micky D's, Ford Motors, Direct TV, Safeway,
and who could get forget WAL-MART?
It was a never-ending parade of monumental making.

And I wondered if those trees you saved
were still glad to be alive
or screaming.

Time is fleeting, and haunted by these hopeful decisions that turn sour.
You are a lemon of my life.
But I think,
I still love you

Even as I fail hard to regain

Introduction
I am not sure if I have properly introduced myself,
I am something that only the trees know about.

Life For Possibility
We used up the earth
like teenage lovers
use up each other,
finding beauty for a moment before the fallout.

Yes if we were kind we
might have lived longer,
but we would never have known
this possibility
we sometimes cherish with wonder.

35%
The doctors were performing
surgery on the street again,
cutting great swaths of concrete out to
expose strange pipes and wires I
didn't understand the meaning of.

The city was sick again.

On my way I saw a friend,
someone who could be a friend one day,
and another person who didn't really have the time.
It was a procession of familiar faces walking
to unknown destinations,
but I traveled upstream,
finding myself in a room full of frankincense and
with a woman whose tattoo read “35%”.

I wonder if the doctors had anything to do with her,
but I couldn't understand what 35% was about.
So I said not to be surprised if
I was gone in the morning, and she responded,
“that's what cats normally do.”

I stole away into the night,
leaving behind 35% of everything.
Good thing broken hearts don't die.
I want nothing to do with those doctors,
but I hope they fix this city soon.

Everywhere A Fucking Fuck
One fuck, two fuck, three fuck, four!
Here a fuck, there a fuck,
everywhere a fucking fuck.

There were fucks coming through the windows,
down the chimney.

Fucks on the news, fucks in the mailbox
Fuck they were coming out my ears, mouth, and nose!

It was a fucking fuckery if I'd ever seen one.

The fucks had won,
loud and boisterous.
I couldn't think,
I couldn't sleep,
and I couldn't take it any longer.

Fuck you
Fuck you
Fuck you!
I said,

to the fucks on my toast,
to the fucks in my friends,
to the fucks atop my house.

I listened close to those fucks
and devised a plan to defuckify
my life.

I started by sweeping out the
fucking dust bunnies hiding in my room,
moved to the kitchen and chopped up a salad
to cleanse the fucks in my gut,

called up my friend and apologized
for my fucking words,

applied to a new job while
telling my boss to fuck off,

ran out a few fucks
in my first marathon,

and finished the final fucking blow
with a rigorous course in
mindfuck meditation mastery.

Where a fuck?
Not here, you fucks.

You Are
Are the leaves soil?
The leaves are soil, and the soil is the tree,
and the tree is you.

You are
soil,
leaves,
the tree.

Glaring Compliment
I hate
your beauty,
so the deeper I glare at you,
the more beautiful
you'll know you are.

It's a compliment.

One Memory Of Love
One memory of love meeting the present,
beautifully.

Everyone faded away and there
was just
the forest
and coyote,
the soothing calm
and monster,
the knowledge that your embrace was
a momentary joy
and the roots,
the fangs,

They want me back badly.

Light And Dark
You are a light with
a darkness and
I am a darkness with
a light.
Our love is mildly deadly
and equally exciting.

Man Bird
I could have sworn
I heard a man up this tree,
hoping maybe he was like me,
jealous of those birds
flying so free.

Her Whispered Words
Her whispered words glowing with the warmth of fire
lit a match under the frozen ways,
set me ablaze
and I promised to diligently grow the flame
one person every day.

Thank You
I had a dream
and you were there.

Thank you for being here.










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