One time, in the cold black Denver morning,

the city skyline

blinking to life,

traffic hadn’t yet started

to pool in the streets,

I was longboarding to the bus stop,

and in the stillness

of the dark

a businessman approached me.

He was dressed well,

tailored suit and brown leather shoes,

nice tie and a sturdy briefcase. Already looking at my ( Read more... )

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give me all your love,
give me all your
pity. give me
summer nights and
lonely thighs,
some nights I'm just trying
to survive

You spent a week
on the kitchen floor,
in despair.
You drowned yourself in
flat beer and warm McCormick's,
never mind the rocks, on the counter.
One week turned into
two, three,
four months disappeared behind the door
the tv's on but
nothing's coming in,
When was the last time you paid the bill?

I imagine you, getting off of the train,
I imagine seeing you in the park, in the rain,
your lips and your stare,
I imagine I faint.

I walk past the midnight trains
every morning
remembering our dreams of
catching a ride to Houston,
or Austin

You asked for forgiveness ( Read more... )

I've been craving painkiller sleep,
it's safe, there, to see you in my dreams
and it's only there that you think of me-
Moving forward
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Remember when we first met
in the back of a taxi cab,
I could never forget how your voice sounds.

The year of the fire,
The year of the flood,
The year I spent
sweeping my feelings
from under the rug.
That time I got the cops called on me
for playing piano too loudly,
in the middle of the night.
Our dirt path
they covered it with rocks,
My broken heart,
His bus pass, long gone.

looking out over the city
like fires in your eyes
like
winters in disguise, like
you didn't know how hard it was to
BREATHE