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It was hard, so hard… And it was all uphill. Never any grub to eat They just brought the bill. Complain? What’s that? And how you go about it? Quietly, or is it shouted? And wouldn’t we surely be outed? As them who cannot stand alone? Will not make it on our own? Won’t they […]
July 24th, 2022 | Posted in Everybody Git One Day | No Comments
They were right down there in the water. Bright clothed like they oughta Want to be rescued But no, it’s fuck you. You old fuck know nothing.
May 14th, 2022 | Posted in Everybody Git One Day | No Comments
Say what you have to. Even if you don’t like it. Say what you have to Even if they could give a shit. Get it out your system. It will cause you grief. Tumble up your tummy ya, You will get no sleep. Leave it, believe that, It will go away. Let it go today […]
April 14th, 2022 | Posted in Everybody Git One Day | No Comments
An end to coincidence. No synchronicity. No chance to meet each other. No movies they could see. No fancy restaurant dinners. No late night toasts at bars. No bare face to admire. Some wore their masks in cars. No hey, I sat beside you! At last week’s hockey game. No yes, l saw you in […]
February 14th, 2022 | Posted in Everybody Git One Day | No Comments
Watch your speed, he said. Though in me, dread. I asked not where we went. All curiosity spent. I watched, in horror. The closer we were. To the guardrails they call life. Does it really take so much strife? To say we bin there. Now, we’re all square. Take as much sand as you need. […]
January 1st, 2022 | Posted in Everybody Git One Day | No Comments
There’s Iraq and a hard place. They face The hard race To that place Called heaven. Forgiven, They try, like us, to get in. But heaven’s closed. To especially those Sinners who knock too hard. In heaven there’s no reward For giving hard knocks Or backwards talking. In heaven, no prize for hard.
November 8th, 2021 | Posted in Everybody Git One Day | No Comments
Mom didn’t die The day she died. She ate a pill Said open wide. Then her good life And death collided. They didn’t know they met. There was no regret. Just, hello Reaper. Mother’s keeper. You old sneaker Skulking up behind her. Death, we knew, would find her. Said, don’t be so damn kind sir. […]
May 7th, 2021 | Posted in Everybody Git One Day | 1 Comment
A spark. A flash. A cymbal smash. A slug that turns your lights off. That shot that knocks your block off. You were just so slightly here.
August 11th, 2020 | Posted in Everybody Git One Day | No Comments
SNAP! Went the lady. Who weren’t no lady at all. That bitch would scratch your eyes out. Kick your feet out as you fall. Then she’d yell at you. Call you out. Bitch would cry and holler and shout. Complaints would gouge like hidden knives. Guilt icing chocolate cake. Pile on pity til the horse […]
August 6th, 2020 | Posted in Everybody Git One Day | No Comments
Nobody took you to the cleaners. You went by yo’ seff. Zero percent. Givin’ money away. You just step off de shelf? It’s deep out here man. Swim if you can But me…? I’d stay out de water. Unless you tink ya gotta Sink or swim If shit’s so dim Shoulda stayed on land But […]
June 28th, 2020 | Posted in Everybody Git One Day | No Comments
It was one early, February covid day when I broke my usual silence. I was qued up with a gaggle of fellow gasoline serfs in our local co-op fuel station, collectively drifting in and out of linehood when a member attendant queried the actively waiting. “Pump number 4?” She asked without prejudice. I was pump […]
June 3rd, 2020 | Posted in Everybody Git One Day | No Comments
Sideways uses the second dimension. Did you know there is a third? You are not the same damn you each day You’re not, or haven’t you heard? There’s a fourth and fifth and Next to it, another. And another And another one after that Until you stop. Which you don’t.
November 16th, 2019 | Posted in Everybody Git One Day | No Comments
God damn whiskey! Bastard beer! Shit head vodka! Christmas cheer?! Sorry I’m drunk now. Shouldn’t be here. Goddamn whiskey! Bastard beer! Don’t leave me Lucifer. I need your fear. Cause if you leave It’s only me here.
November 8th, 2019 | Posted in Everybody Git One Day | No Comments
Pretend you’re not some loser. Maybe you’re no dumb fuck. How ’bout the world is not your oyster? What if it runs on luck? Say you ain’t some lucky bastard. You had to lie and cheat and steal. Then the god of luck means zip to you. And luck’s not really real. But what if […]
October 25th, 2019 | Posted in Everybody Git One Day | No Comments
Dude pointed out And there was no doubt It was the same shit, Different day. There was just no effing way. This could be the same damn play. But it was. It was. It really was…
September 10th, 2019 | Posted in Everybody Git One Day | No Comments
Look through any window. Window in this basement. Notice every footprint. You can see where they went. Peer now through this window. Into living, kitchens, bedrooms. You can see those lives unfold. Folks sorting through their ruins. Now rooftops rule the plane. The streets and distance gain Notice in your reality. Horizons crawl close and […]
September 1st, 2019 | Posted in Everybody Git One Day | No Comments
Shit happens all the time. That’s the job of shit. You get a little out of line Life will see to it That your comeuppance is on it’s way. It might not hit you square today. But when it does hit, you will say Why me Lord? Why me…? Don’t you see Lord, don’t you […]
August 1st, 2019 | Posted in Everybody Git One Day | 1 Comment
He said there’s only so much internet. And you’re taking up alot. We replied the only internet we used Is the internet we bought. We own it. It’s ours. And if we want the internet To travel in our kar… We shall have the internet! And we will drive it far!
November 20th, 2018 | Posted in Everybody Git One Day | No Comments
A closed pie hole saves Itself for pie. It doesn’t interfere. It doesn’t ask why. Changes what it can. Mostly changes pie. Doesn’t pick up all the chunks Of a still not falling sky. Here to watch the show. Guess a plot unfolds like so. You don’t make it go. You’re just an actor.
September 24th, 2018 | Posted in Everybody Git One Day | No Comments
There is a richochet. No matter what you say. Maybe not today, But it’s coming. If I were you, I’d start running. Not off from your mouth which Brought you so far south. Your north star can’t be seen. But see your tail now, Where have you been? And who in the hail has been […]
July 29th, 2018 | Posted in Everybody Git One Day | No Comments
Get a life, my friend. Then almost lose it. Have some pain, my friend. Then slowly lose it. Work your fingers to the bone then Before you get home, Have some joker say “you’re gone!” And friend, you’re fired. Lose your job and then your house. Feel like a teeny mouse In a trap that […]
June 6th, 2018 | Posted in Everybody Git One Day | No Comments
Skid mark where there was none. Chip dip on the dim sum. Come git ifya want some. Buddy don’t store no water. Bill your damn like ya otter. Savin’ up fo’ some dream. Ain’t quite easy lak it seems. Gotta firss have dat dream.
May 10th, 2018 | Posted in Everybody Git One Day | No Comments