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List: Contemporary Pieces (For You Thinkers)

Well, what I consider to be my best mainstream original work.
Time period: 1991- Now

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  • When I last hugged a tree?
    It was for dear life.
    53 lines, 54 comments, on Jul 17 4:15 PM 2003. In Spiritual
  • 'Knowing what you cannot do is
    a writer's second-best gift'.
    38 lines, 84 comments, on Dec 5 10:31 PM 2003. In Contemporary
  • Jungle and night, those stars.
    Up my amber eyes
    21 lines, 26 comments, on Dec 6 1:35 AM 2003. In Personal
  • Sleeping the day away
    upside down on a strange couch.
    10 lines, 7 comments, on Dec 21 11:10 PM 2003. In Contemporary
  • It's horribly lonely out here
    Floating on this charred seat
    22 lines, 15 comments, on Dec 24 1:57 AM 2003. In Contemporary
  • She's the rash inside your old suit
    A chimney clogged with clear soot -
    31 lines, 9 comments, on Dec 24 3:51 PM 2003. In Contemporary
  • When I drink I do not think
    Of no one but my self
    39 lines, 16 comments, on Dec 25 12:12 AM 2003. In Contemporary
  • Dressed up as an heir to some Ketchup fortune
    I sip my martini with my pinky to the sky.
    62 lines, 10 comments, on Dec 26 5:40 PM 2003. In Humor
  • High desert love triangle,
    will you fruit tree?
    23 lines, 11 comments, on Dec 28 3:21 PM 2003. In Contemporary
  • I'm over it now
    I think
    60 lines, 9 comments, on Dec 30 11:39 PM 2003. In Love
  • When the sun falls down,
    and the night gathers once again
    51 lines, 8 comments, on Jan 2 1:47 PM 2004. In Contemporary
  • Fear, has banded together all of my senses.
    Love, has been swept under the dog's rug.
    91 lines, 3 comments, on Jan 2 2:24 PM 2004. In Contemporary
  • A cartoon face with blow up hands.
    You wore sexy new top, and flip flops.
    30 lines, 12 comments, on Jan 4 3:52 AM 2004. In Contemporary
  • An eerie red filters through
    windows, people, pets & wild things.
    36 lines, 11 comments, on Jan 5 1:20 PM 2004. In Contemporary
  • Jagermeister while babysitting the bosses' kids
    helps to pass the time, but not pass up the mom.
    52 lines, 13 comments, on Jan 6 10:43 PM 2004. In Erotica
  • Strong, and large with thought.
    I find you grazing your days away.
    56 lines, 11 comments, on Jan 12 6:33 PM 2004. In Contemporary
  • Every evening
    she smokes cigarettes
    60 lines, 7 comments, on Jan 18 12:23 PM 2004. In Contemporary
  • Goosebumps are afraid of me now.
    Since I started drinking shoe polish again.
    19 lines, 6 comments, on Jan 18 6:23 PM 2004. In Contemporary
  • "John Travolta mayday,
    John Travolta mayday."
    42 lines, 11 comments, on Jan 20 10:21 PM 2004. In Contemporary
  • YESTERDAY;
    You could say it was a nice fit.
    43 lines, 19 comments, on Jan 24 2:41 PM 2004. In Contemporary
  • By the time you read this,
    I will be gone.
    5 lines, 19 comments, on Jan 24 8:44 PM 2004. In Personal
  • If you're such a Satanist...why do you whine and sniffle?
    If you're such a Christian...why haven't you read the bible?
    63 lines, 10 comments, on Jan 24 9:01 PM 2004. In Contemporary
  • What have I done to you sweet ego?
    I have chased too much poetry,
    64 lines, 28 comments, on Feb 20 9:59 PM 2004. In Personal
  • 16 lines, 9 comments, on Feb 26 11:00 PM 2004. In Other
  • Starting something you can't finish.
    Completing what should have never begun.
    26 lines, 31 comments, on Mar 11 2:06 PM 2004. In Personal
  • Did Lord Byron give you faith
    In monsters resolute to no faith.
    62 lines, 21 comments, on Mar 16 5:17 AM 2004. In Contemporary
  • Father, I must drive
    Push through the night
    20 lines, 41 comments, on Apr 2 2:36 PM 2004. In Contemporary
  • A quick lick of yellow
    Corona and slaves
    22 lines, 21 comments, on Apr 4 3:37 AM 2004. In Spiritual
  • The sign had been there
    for quite a while before
    19 lines, 23 comments, on Apr 23 6:38 PM 2004. In Contemporary
  • Counting the mile roads back
    downtown from Big Beaver (16 mile rd.)
    54 lines, 25 comments, on Apr 24 2:02 PM 2004. In Contemporary
  • Powdered bones and mirage
    have turned my face away.
    19 lines, 24 comments, on Apr 26 1:31 PM 2004. In Contemporary
  • Pounded thin through splitting blue light
    Shafts refract and condense me in crystal.
    16 lines, 31 comments, on Apr 28 10:39 PM 2004. In Contemporary
  • Invisible shifts and currents from earth to void
    I've toyed around with no better co-dependent.
    26 lines, 23 comments, on Apr 30 1:44 PM 2004. In Contemporary
  • Something happened to me, but I forgot what it was
    Regardless of regard, love, warmth, vitamins and milk.
    20 lines, 21 comments, on May 1 6:14 PM 2004. In Contemporary
  • Rafter hanging with a swallowed tongue
    Heavy shoes, dirty nails, and my fly undone.
    31 lines, 27 comments, on May 2 7:15 PM 2004. In Adult, Contemporary
  • Let me empty out the garage,
    and reminisce...
    8 lines, 52 comments, on May 9 2:17 PM 2004. In Contemporary
  • Still, things come from you
    To me, opportunities to vote,
    41 lines, 17 comments, on Jun 25 1:40 PM 2004. In Contemporary
  • And you father, will you keep me?
    As I age and grind away at hope
    62 lines, 35 comments, on Jul 10 3:08 AM 2004. In Contemporary
  • I have been to, and through, many odds and ends
    Prison and failure, the allure of insanity rote power
    48 lines, 16 comments, on Aug 17 12:12 PM 2004. In Contemporary
  • There was a room
    It was cold and removed
    20 lines, 33 comments, on Aug 29 3:26 AM 2004. In Contemporary
  • I can never stop before I die,
    Smashing me head into planets
    25 lines, 11 comments, on Oct 8 2:50 AM 2004. In Contemporary
  • What, with the blanket black and punched
    And the sun no fun and still drunk
    16 lines, 8 comments, on Oct 20 5:53 PM 2004. In Contemporary
  • If I were not a poet
    Would it be any easier
    33 lines, 12 comments, on Oct 20 6:25 PM 2004. In Contemporary
  • There's a head
    Then there's a shoulder
    17 lines, 10 comments, on Nov 9 4:05 PM 2004. In Contemporary
  • I shoveled your new snow
    Into holiday drifts, and rows
    43 lines, 5 comments, on Nov 14 12:35 AM 2004. In Contemporary
  • What I've seen has left me
    Scarred like a plowed November field
    57 lines, 44 comments, on Dec 19 3:51 AM 2004. In Contemporary
  • His fence is high, and white
    Yard immaculately landscaped
    9 lines, 10 comments, on Dec 28 12:52 AM 2004. In Contemporary
  • Crackling clouds interrupt the drive
    Of a man bent on distance and need
    29 lines, 14 comments, on Dec 28 7:59 PM 2004. In Contemporary
  • Big smoking Dicks loom
    Like gargoyles dripping
    58 lines, 17 comments, on Jan 19 9:59 PM 2005. In Contemporary
  • I begin with a six letter word for paradise
    You three letter off of the 'H' a garden utensil
    40 lines, 12 comments, on Mar 2 3:05 PM 2005. In Contemporary
  • I believe in a lot of strange things,
    But you, my love, are from outer space
    24 lines, 20 comments, on Mar 14 2:10 AM 2005. In Contemporary
  • You were rigid, mean, and selfish
    But man you loved up a tornado
    49 lines, 29 comments, on Mar 24 9:46 PM 2005. In Contemporary
  • I am drunk again, and what else is new
    But maybe the waitress and my shoes
    26 lines, 14 comments, on Mar 30 3:07 AM 2005. In Contemporary
  • I am a poet, and poorly dressed at that
    I'd like to drop 20 pounds, and some clean acid
    41 lines, 21 comments, on Apr 1 2:32 AM 2005. In Contemporary
  • The apartment was across the street from a park and the Louvre
    The woman that owned it had a son that died of a drug overdose in it,
    24 lines, 10 comments, on Apr 4 10:40 PM 2005. In Contemporary
  • Can you tell me why my mother left me
    fucked and empty like Jesus?
    38 lines, 12 comments, on May 9 3:41 AM 2005. In Contemporary
  • Is like what I could pull off sober, educated
    Dressed up like your father, or perhaps Santa Clause
    29 lines, 18 comments, on Jun 20 7:37 PM 2005. In Contemporary
  • My mouth against your flower
    Sucking off petal by petal
    18 lines, 8 comments, on Dec 31 6:22 PM 2005. In Contemporary
  • laughing with a friend
    leaving the studio
    25 lines, 2 comments, on Jan 3 5:49 PM 2006. In Contemporary
  • I did all the right things
    At the wrong time
    28 lines, 6 comments, on Feb 12 1:43 PM 2006. In Contemporary
  • A breached fence
    And then we're at the aqueduct
    11 lines, 8 comments, on Feb 24 4:53 PM 2006. In Contemporary
  • There is a salinity
    A balance without equal
    11 lines, 9 comments, on Feb 27 4:07 PM 2006. In Contemporary
  • Was not foreseen, or expected,
    but came about when computer chip
    54 lines, 12 comments, on Aug 17 6:58 PM 2006. In Beat
  • I've never wanted
    marmalade more than
    23 lines, 13 comments, on Aug 18 11:43 PM 2006. In Contemporary
  • Are not for you sweet man
    With your impish smile and broad shoulders
    24 lines, 14 comments, on Aug 28 10:33 PM 2006. In Contemporary
  • After you tucked your penis
    between your legs (on LSD), and stood
    26 lines, 18 comments, on Oct 2 7:10 PM 2006. In Contemporary
  • The Indian at the bar keeps muttering about
    Gold, and super conductive energy
    35 lines, 9 comments, on Dec 9 8:11 PM 2006
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