Bearing Witness in AZ

I bear witness to a different culture, like living in another country, where skin color and sexuality define a person, of willful ignorance and hurtful actions. I bear witness and am subjected to, a redneck calling a man a “flaming homosexual” right before she climbs into her lifted F-350 and burns a gallon of fuel …

Asides

What (something observed by the mind but not known) do (instead of sitting or standing without desire) we (the collective of beings we call humanity) know (the opposite of yes, because knowledge is power, yet ignorance is bliss) ? (!)

Apathetic

I do not care     for the self inflicted pains of humanity     in the concrete jungle of society. My apathy wants to say more     about humanity’s condition and mine. So distant from it all I feel. A hope for a brighter tomorrow brings     conversations that dictate what is right But I just don’t care enough     to …

Animated Despair

Her affections are manufactured humidity, stagnant smell in a world not fit for the putrid sweetness that announce her presence. She is an animated character, with perfectly drawn lines, scars criss crossing pale flesh, tear drop impressions of blood littering the ground around her feet. Sadness is her air with depression her fuel, we all …

Abstract Concept(ion)

I am the product of drunken sex, of parents that never knew love and a childhood laced with pain. Never a place to call home, my parent’s marriage quickly broken. Memories are all that remain. Forward moving, I build from the remains and find validation in the act of sex, never realizing that I am …

A Day In The Woods

A sunny day alone in the woods, I think of the time my father walked by my side. Down the trails we went, when I was just a boy. Time spent with my father, doing things men do together. Walking up the steep hills, jumping over fallen logs, stomping through mud. Laughing together and breaking …

music

click, click clack click       click tick, tock tip tap click       tap tick, tock tick, tock tip, tap click click click clack tip, tap tip       tap tip               tip tip                             tip tock

Odd Thought

His leg          l            e              a                n                  s                  against the chair next to him. He leaves it there,       using arms to propel him       to the counter       asking for ice. And I notice       his     shoes          do not match.