The tall cop lit a cigarette
in his own mouth, and gave it to him, and
then they all lit cigarettes, and the
red, glowing ends burned like the
tiny campfires we lit at night
back at the beginning of the world.
Summer Solstice
WELCOME TO ROOM 0013
STRAWBERRY MILK, NO SURVIVORS
I am the only cop in this bar.
Miranda knows, but no one else.
Climb on top of it
Later, I'll let you pick me up like a boomerang. Literally I will bend at the waist, you can use only one hand.You will throw me away from you and think you get the game, but I will straighten out mid-flight and keep going, joke's on you, asshole.
Climb on top of it
Someone even says "Augury" on the bus
as I ride to meet you. Nobody says augury.
But I don't quit my job
when the lights go out
the same moment as you say "tomorrow"
Send a Bird
I should’ve thought this guy is a terrible musician, shut it down, but instead, I became a shallow bowl of strawberry milk, riding a fictional boat through a very real storm.
TERRIBLE MUSIC
If the shirt’s fitted well,
ten blocks and it’s off you.
If the light starts to bother,
let it grow darker still
TWO
TSA agent just asked me to pull up my pants and I had to explain to her that no, I’m not sagging, these are Raimundo Langlois. They’re built that way.
SASHA IN THE GROUPCHAT
And everyone’s cleaned up like heaven.
Believe it. Everyone’s dressed down for hell.
TWO
There were no survivors.
moonwalking with einstein
My route took me through York, Pennsylvania, home of the Weightlifting Hall of Fame and Museum. I thought that sounded like something I didn't want to die without having seen. And I had an hour to kill.
moonwalking with einstein
Met her in a dream and I think you were there too. When I said I want a daughter, darling, I wanted one with you.
Arcade
There’s an essay I’m not going to cite because I think T.S. Eliot gets enough attention.
EVER
I am a devotee of free will much more than of destiny
An Interview
Because of my knack for espionage, but what you didn’t notice was me seated in the corner like a chair.
TERRIBLE MUSIC
Are we grateful or are we complicated?
MORTAL
had been driving from my home in Washington, D.C., to the Lehigh Valley to do an interview for Discover magazine with a theoretical physicist at Kutztown University, who had invented a vacuum chamber device that was supposed to pop the world's
largest popcorn.
moonwalking with einstein
What was it, six o’clock? So when we left it was still light and everything could be seen for what it was,
and then you got in the car—
where did you go next, after those days,
where although you could not speak
you were not lost?
Afternoons & early evenings (again)
Memorize your alleys, take yourself back home.
Already we’re here and already we’re
through it.
The toll’s blinking wildly at you.
They’ll stop you from smoking indoors,
they’ll arrest you.
TWO
When I realized the statue of liberty was walking, my whole life literally came into focus. Do you know what that feels like?
MY LIFE SO FAR
