and this is why i love writing from bars.
i think i need to go on tour…
‘she’s just angry’
cries:
he used me
he took all the best
i was.
she sucks angry on her cigarette
the way she sucked angry
on his dick.
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moments are few but here is my one…
‘avoidance’
mother and father took the tines to my eyes but never time to soothe my tongue and so much of my embryo goes unanswered like why did i grow into who i am and why do i see now what i’ve been blind to before and who the fuck nourished me when most obviously my bloodlines ran thin? i am not yours and clearly i am so wayward how could i ever put forth a signal to be heard? generations ensuing my cells will never know the pliancy of my flesh but my daughter keeps the consistency of who i am and for that reason alone i stay present in all my moments no matter how they crush me.
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perfectly whole yet not quite together…
‘monachopsis’
a thousand interlocking pieces yet none hold the smooth to slip me in. a shape with projection i seem to push the mass away. even if we lock would i ever want to conform to your spatial monotony? i hear what you’re saying but it’s falling on deaf ears. you want me here but a path leads from the sash i’ve left open. inch turned to gap. the draft never turned your head to notice so neither will the guilt when i move on. it’s a pretty picture when all comes together. there’s a hole in the middle rendering it obsolete.
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‘death no matter’
these people
they think i die to drink
no, no friends
i drink to die.
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do you stay well after the curtain drops…?
‘playbill’
fifth act. we find our protagonist once fool now hanged man center stage and all unfolding behind eyes does so unaware of severed cords to facial expression and while heart trembles worrisomely to outcomes beyond measure he’ll suspend expectation and keep forever his surrender
waiting.
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Hey guys, so I’m doing some thing a little different.
I’d love to get your honest opinion on my new book blurb. Yep, I just let the cat out of the bag. We’rew gunning for its release end of summer 2023.
I’m not giving away the title, but I’m very excited for you all to read it. I’ll be dropping more promo and hints soon enough.
Please reply with your email so I can send you the blurb. It’s less than 100 words, so not much of a time stealer.
I thank you all in advance!
Joe
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where are the fresh voices and deliveries?
why is so much presented for the eyes
and not crafted from the heart?
‘beacon’
we live in a world
of posers and followers
desperate for the
free and brave
to liberate us
from all the shit.
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‘band-aid, she always uses a band-aid’
he’s interesting—
he’s well-traveled
he’s a musician on weekends
he’s single
but he’s not my type.
i listen to her words
and shake my head sadly
knowing she’ll find a reason
to take him up on a night out.
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looking thru the glass. and seeing nothing…
‘assassin’
something’s swimming in my snifter that shouldn’t be. maybe part of a bug or yet another piece of myself i’ve been forced to swallow and now repeats in untimely fashion like when i want to forget the knife holes in my back. usually i ignore all leaking down my spine but it’s hard when all i want to really say goes whistling through. i’m sure if i had you alone you’d see i’ve crossed your name off from my list. a concise unshaking line that speaks of cold-blooded laces knotted to shoes walking on. the rich irony to be mocked as boy who conjures things he can’t see when quite clearly here you are holding conversation with a ghost. when next i greet you, and you, and you, i’ll glide untethered and true in the knowing a single shot took me out and into peace. until then i’ll knock back this booze and ignore the defineless particles which once i may have been but surely now no more.
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you figure things out the hard way…
‘yes isn’t always the answer’
yes isn’t always the answer
i couldn’t figure out
what he meant
but it became clearer
after several shots of irish whiskey
look, sometimes you have to grow balls
and stick up for yourself
be a man and not some compliant pussy
that rolls over to your woman.
he suddenly got a text from his wife
and hurried home.
i poured whiskey down my throat
stumbled in at 4am
walked into walls
pissed in the sink
and caught holy hell.
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