“Once, I desired to write something great…”

“You have been here much longer than I have.”

“but not in that cutesy english way, more / as in your face reminds me of a sunned out / lebron james OR teletubbies (twink style) sun”

“The dream of my body gathered / slow and deliberate as lichen / smoothing and stippling the oak of my skin”

“a small indie zine had just opened for slop”

“there was this old joke about / a woodpecker in a mulberry tree”

“I can’t keep telling my secrets on main / but I’m intoxicated! / LOOK AT ME / THE MOST TRANSPARENT THING”

“X marks the spot that used to be / the popular Bluebird Lounge...”

“These boys are ditchin' prom, leavin' their girls behind. / These boys got a plan, they're ditchin' that plan too.”

“Before the forgetting began, you were afraid. / It was summer and we still thought we could / become young again.”

“The best way to make a landscape / interesting is to slap a bear in there.”

“These days I go to bed to stay awake half the night but I don’t feel alone”

“I like Drive Away Dolls, but the rest of my friends are split / between Bottoms and Love Lies Bleeding, the age old / debate on whether murderous juicers beat punch drunk femmes”

“he roams the land / he rambles through the crowd”

“You pulled on a dress / your mother had sewn by hand.”