poverty is an anchor stunting growth keeping one chained in place poverty is a tool used to exploit the impoverished into believing there is an escape poverty is a loop an ever churning maw leaving a need for just a little more

how many paradigms have been tossed since paradise was lost for the sin of eating some fruit so much emphasis on building fences to enforce imaginary lines the prisoners in their self made prison manufacturing mythos to explain away the inherent need for freedom through sweet subservience

a hesitance reverberates through this doggedly crooked line of vertebrae as a plane circles on approach to land a stationary illusion hanging above a mocking allusion to going nowhere at the speed of longing the ides of march have nothing on the ideations of another novembercrashingdown caesar was a politician so the idea of being […]

an eruption of pink and purple wavering out from a malignant orange orb as lightning dances on the angry bed of gray around it highlighting the sickness seething in concrete and glass the first day where summer feels it’s fallen the northern wind howling through a confusion of leaves still green since the false equinox […]

pioneering dissent a pedantic pissant calling out those who grip tight to power having lost sight of their own motivations in the face of money trampling on the rights they swore to defend treating the constitution like dollar store one ply while a nation starves as the cost of existence becomes a choke point i […]

daylight is no longer a commodity to be saved as morning rises lazily leaving a fool in golden effusion half blind driving through confusion off kilter as this autumnal intrusion harvest hues spin an impeccable delusion the spirits ferry misfortune through the waning penumbra between life and death ever more apparent in the slow demise […]

the all too brief moment spent in the spotlight of her lovely gaze leaves an aching as i strain to see her silhouette in the dim afterglow

if you vibrate atjusttherightfrequency you can simply cease toexistonthisspectrum been trying all day passiveaggresively rewriting myself in and out of the ink spattered margins a deviant dereliction in transgressive turmoil taptaptapping along to the sparrows on the sill the penitent lash strikes an influx of insincerity in bloody gashes exposing the ivory glint of lies

hovering betwixt states can be hollowing golden light sends daggers piercing through mypapermachemind the pressures internalexternal emotionaldevotional has the world spun into a sick of pastel delusions witnessed fromabonedivingbell i dreamt of you an unfocused fever remembered by the bittermetallictaste when i woke to find nothing but a ghost how long must i hover before […]

i don’t believe in very much after a lifetime of meandering attempts i understand the necessity for mythos and order as random acts of evolution accumulated it has been established a species will rise to the tippy top it was better for the planet when the apex predator didn’t have enough awareness to adopt a […]

a cool deluge after months filled with interminable heat as the temperature falls into autumn with the help of a tropical depression perhaps this is the crux of my own particular issues maybe a midwestern depression doesn’t carry the same weight with which to change the doldrums of summer into a better climate an open […]