Prosaic

which makes you wonder if you’ll ever happen to lose yourself the way you thought you were lost
when you woke up one day and realized the last 7 days were actually hell without a death
as you wonder when we’ll all be dead

Memos

I recorded the tracks for this album in August of 2017 and edited them myself in my basement. I held on to it, keeping it a secret, and only gave it out to a few people because I was embarrassed of the way it sounds, the background noise, etc. I was too afraid to make […]

Dependable

“Life isn’t fair. I don’t know who lied and told you otherwise.” It’s not always, ‘roll with the punches, make the best of it, do what you can with the cards you’ve been dealt, shake it off, better luck next time,’ or even ‘third time’s a charm.’ Sometimes, it’s sucks because it just sucks. Like […]

Subsume

Your mouth is a forest fire and your tongue, the incessant dripping of rain on the roof of the house in the desolate mountains hidden away at the place where the whole of my body meets the base of my skull and I could spend hours upon days of several years counting each drop as […]

Post-it Obituary

I’m losing you. I’ve already lost you. You are still here with me. How can all three be happening at once? I saw you today for the first time in six months since our first and last goodbye. Before then, it was always see you later. I guess it was inevitable that we would make […]

League

I’ve been remembering what it was like being a kid. Swinging around the wooden Buster Sword my dad made for me in the backyard with a fake wooden cell phone in my pocket and an accompanying fake wooden gun laying close by in the yard. More often than not I was just dragging the sword […]

Grievance Secluded

Someone tried to kill you the other day. They stuck a knife into your skin, lacerated your flesh and let red relief run rampant. Pouring over your body, staining your clothes, and dripping onto the carpet; the blood has never seemed so scarce. You sat there bewildered, wondering if this was what it is like […]

Something Persistent

She spent 3 weeks in her childhood home. Home that she shared with her parents and one brother for the majority of her animation. A home always full of family, love, provision, and growth. It belongs to her parents and she will never see it as anything else. Over those 21 days and sleepless nights, […]

Insolent Oppresor

“You are not your words.” I’ve admitted that I’m lost. It’s not a new feeling. I’m staggering through a painfully familiar hallway and grasping on to little strings of endeavors to keep me from falling flat on my face, kissing the cool hardwood of comfort and complacency. I’m not lost. I know exactly where […]

Ancillary

For Spoken Word Challenge VII: Power – June 13th, 2017 Cut me off at the source and watch me wither away. Don’t bite the hand that feeds you. Cut me off from the source and watch me bleed dry. I have nothing except that which I am given. If not for that, I am incomplete […]