Potpourri

Lacking connection.

When I was thirteen, I would have random moments of disassociation. I would look into the mirror in my locked bathroom, often before nine but after seven pm, wh... Read More

Trash or Treasure

I’m sitting at my desk job. Mostly I get paid for just being around so it isn’t a bad gig. I also tell people where the bathrooms are. I have infinite wisdom of... Read More

Four Poems

“Stays” On the way home, I smell my jacket and think of you. Amazing how perfume holds on so tightly when the embrace was quick and painless.     ... Read More

The photos

It wasn’t the pornography itself that surprised Anna but rather the condition of the photos. Black and white snapshots outlined with well thumbed borders. A sta... Read More

Home

11:06 pm and I want to write more like Matt Berninger. (What is it about a good song that makes you feel so thin?) But now isn’t the time to think about that. I... Read More

Slurp (It’s a Poll!)

Recently  in reality TV (so you know it's for real), oral sex is becoming the new trend. It's better than marbles, better than Go Fish, and maybe even better th... Read More

Echoes

Over the line at 3am, you said, “There’s this sinking feeling in the pit of my chest. I’m choking on sand and sort of anchored by fear. I am the edge of the ear... Read More

Laundry

Originally Published July 26, 2012 I can’t find any clean underwear. If I’m going to be in a surgical gown, I need to make sure I’m wearing clean underwear wi... Read More

Bergen Count(r)y

It is 1:43 am I am lying in the street while Pilger plays with his lighter. He got it in Hawaii. He got a tattoo there, too. It’s some symbol from a show he lov... Read More

LIFE changes QUICKLY

LIFE CHANGES QUICKLY no but seriously it really does. when something really terrible is going on in one of my friends’ lives I always tell them the same thing, ... Read More

Linger

It’s been a long time since I’ve been woken up at 8am but I wasn’t gonna sleep and just let you leave. I had to say my little goodbye My hug that was a little t... Read More