If I could
walk on water I would count fishes like gumballs in the ocean’s glass machine If I could run like horses I’d take this hammer and carry it to the captain tell him I’m gone o yeah tell him I’m gone if I...
View ArticleThe Front of the House
As they unwrapped his face there was no face just a blood soaked neckerchief that stuck to the hole above his neck and looked like a dirty drain. Someone asked if we were sure he was alive and I wanted...
View ArticleDoing time
I’d been Working In the prison for 2 years I hadn’t seen it all but I’d seen a lot so when the kid on suicide watch standing at the bars naked except for a canvas apron we call the oven mitt Shows me a...
View ArticleExplaining Afghanistan to My 7 year old
If it was a nursery rhyme I would tell you that I was not the egg who had a great fall but I was one of the kings horses or one of the kings men who could not put him back together again so my eyes...
View ArticleGood bye
The first time I left for Fort Jackson Mark’s girlfriend was crying so hard you’d think it was him going instead of me and I remember you were pissed that she was there since we left the kids at home...
View ArticleHome Town
Nightmares ruin my hometown they leave me on the beaches of lake Erie buried up to my knees in sand and remind me of all that gets lost down by the 14th street train tracks where I answer the cry of...
View ArticleNew Year 2016
after the ball drops and my brain closes down the last neurons with vodka blue misery and white noise I woke late to the realization that the changes in me that scare my mom and sadden my brother are...
View ArticlePTSD 4
at night the sand the stars and the war all hum like a wound vac sucking the blood out of my nightmares hard enough to keep me alive for one more day.
View ArticleDon’t pray for rain if you aren’t ready to drown
Today I want to watch my memories burn in an apartment fire today I want to turn the dead soldiers and children into sandwiches to feed the politicians who call war inevitable and track profit margins...
View ArticleBalance
I was watching a documentary on the Shaolin Temple when a priest who is an herbologist says that the timing and atmosphere are crucial to the mixing of the herbs even the crow of a rooster can ruin...
View ArticleHow I knew I was mostly OK
Was because I didn’t have a specific plan to kill myself my fantasy wasn’t about blood it was just the moment when the helicopter blades stopped turning the wound vacs stopped humming the children...
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