Oh Man You Guys

If you are going to eat meat you shouldn't over-cook it

I find de-boning, de-veining, butterflying, and shucking all similarly interesting

I'm as much a fan of implements as implementation

When's the right time to break it to you that I lie from time to time

When's the right time to tell you I've been known to write fiction, but that's wholly different

Put your feet up, this month only has thirty days

Treat yourself to the end of an era

Stone or steel or steam or stagnation

These are funny games I play

That you play with me

Just get the mud off those boots before you come in

Location:Maier Rd,North Laurel,United States

Sometimes There's Gonna Be Fuck-Faces

Sometimes things are gonna get political

(Up in here, Up in here)

Sometimes we're going to see what happens when people stop being nice and start getting real

Sometimes people are gonna go shirtless

Sometimes will be the right time for a blazer and singing

Sometimes we'll sit on the floor

Sometimes we'll get along

Sometimes we'll have the courage to tell someone to go fuck themselves in the face of bodily harm

There is this great guy in Michigan named Jeff

He's handsome, sure, but like me he's a normal-sized guy

And once we were wrapping up playing pickup games of basketball at an MSU gym

And a couple attractive ladies walked through the gym on their way to doing whatever they were up to

And this bigger-than-normal-sized guy with his like-sized friends whistled or catcalled or somesuch at the women

And Jeff yelled, "Don't be a dick!" without missing a beat

And that was that

And that's why I wanted him to be my daughter's godfather

I don't think he believes in God (I don't, either), and I haven't seen him in a long time

But man, he'll call a fuck-face a fuck-face when it's gotta be told

He's that Nordic kinda handsome even if he isn't all Viking-sized

He wears glasses, sometimes, and knows a shit-ton about history

Location:Calvert Rd,College Park,United States

These Things Like Facts

What you have when you make a really good copy

Some configuration of digits with a six after the scale has been lost

Letting go of getting someone exactly what they want

The sun is the first star we knew

The Moon is the first moon we knew

Somewhere a ball of ice and somewhere else a ball of fire

The days speed up or the days slow down

We're importing beats from around the world, now

Knock an arrow, pull up a chair, rest cool metal against your cheeks

Repeatable structures deemed perfect because they are repeatable

Brocade, lace, mesh, chainlink

Lensing ever after

Lending to the sky

Aperture upon aperture

Ones upon zeroes

And a well-worn path to the house

Location:Melvin Dr,Baltimore,United States

This Happens All the Time

I'm relatively or what does that mean

Being on time is not the same thing as complete

Resolve has nothing to do with how well you can see

Sky, blue or less so

Ground, all of the clay in Virginia the more to see you with

Cover, blades and puffs and things you don't eat

I mean like putting out the right plates and the right silverware, the right glasses, a nice cloth napkin nothing too fancy though

There is the path through a track and that is where the race is won

The race is run

Prey is run down

Old machines are rundown

This is never the land of old machines, this is where we grow the people

Before the beast needs feeding

Location:W Laurel Ave,Sterling,United States

What Do You Ever Mean?

This is what I've got

Hot house whatevres

Long days before longer nights

Drinks after eight

Working our way out of good and into better

Best is for the idealist

Their towers topple

Wicked

Location:W Laurel Ave,Sterling,United States

Intimacy Today Is Great Weather Tomorrow

Still with the sunlight

The all things that are actually one thing

More resonance and somebody will win

There is a ball and dancing and ladders to climb

There are trip wires to trigger spring-loaded bundles of bolts

Fearless poison darts

Trundles, tresses, troubles, trenches

Stresses then distresses then illness on illness

Fevered, slain is a precursor to oh my god

As in Oh My God

Ohmygod ohmygod ohmygosh

Did you see those clouds?

Location:Melvin Dr,Baltimore,United States

I've Got a Job to Do

A tiny post-impressionist faces a massive world

Sometimes, when it comes to arms, splayed is the only choice

Sometimes a giant dog is just a giant dog

A desert is shy with its water

An ocean is more like a desert than a rain forest

Trees are not lungs

If you look at the Earth from space you'd see something special, depending on where you were looking

Even if it was just a bunch of clouds

High altitude lightning that never reaches the ground is the loneliest number

Your pretty light show is its recognition that there will be no rest tonight

These maritime scenes, poker games, jailhouse tattoos

Mounting losses, sore winners, gaps upon gaps

The clouds roll in and we roll out

Somewhere there is a downed powerline

And a home owner is fumbling for the phone on the kitchen wall

Location:Melvin Dr,Baltimore,United States

When Resonance Became a Limiting Factor, No?

Attack and retreat and dead at 72

Free people in a free world alive at 24

Crouching, stalking, deciding and dead at 94

Forever after at 39

I can't remember my first steps or my first breath or my first words

Did you have a brain before your heart started beating? I doubt it

Onward, inward, and onward some more

These are not boxes we are checking

These are not sames that seek complying

There are relationships that need span shores, that's just reality, friend

There are connections that are doomed to faulty-dom

There are fights that need fighting but that's not one of them

There are fights that need fighting that won't be resolved until long after you're gone, but need you to fight them here and now

Layers of skin emerge and die and are gone, but your hand is still there

Stars sit in the sky, but that's just perspective

Things come to be, followed by more things

There is no relationship between small and great when we really dig in

A bridge covers a distance because the distance needs covering

Trust in that

Trust in you're going somewhere

Trust in a speedometer

Any speedometer

Location:Melvin Dr,Baltimore,United States

That's a Lot of Likes

Like no

Like you're not my amigo

Like a picture of the sunset and you with your board shorts and your margarita

Like the worst city in the world when it comes to allergies

Like miracles of modern medicine

Like modern to people today

Like mid which century?

Like liking to swing on swings

Like like like

Like a hushed and somber tone to close things down

Except the game is still going on

And the sheen on the skin of a freshly caught trout

Or maybe a mackerel

Location:Melvin Dr,Baltimore,United States

This Maybe May Stick

Thinking about so many things vs. thinking so many things

If you want to grow potatoes you need to plant some potatoes

Am I getting used to soy milk in my coffee?

And my revulsion at the thought and how that all rubs up against wanting to get back to what was

Which makes me think of this guy I knew in Virginia, Tom Kraft

He's a great poet, and I hope he's poet-ing somewhere -- New York I bet

I learned so much about people and poetry from him and he didn't even mean to, I don't think

You would learn so much, too, I swear

The potatoes I'm roasting smell pretty damn good

Garam masala, onions, curry, cardamom, cinnamon, garlic

They're almost done

I keep coming back to

Food is the answer

Location:Melvin Dr,Baltimore,United States

Real-life Strategies for When Something Wants Out

Open a door

Location:Washington Blvd,Baltimore,United States

It's Not Saturday Night

Straw givers

Straw have-ers

But haymakers

Roundabouts and carousels

Carpools and slug lines

Washington, DC commuters and their wildly variable commutes

Do you really not see the difference between the candidates?

Are you actually uncomfortable with the shades of gray?

Or is this some kind of willful Peter Pan thing you've got going on?

Because I could be down with that as long as your willful in it.

I mean, we could hang out

Have a beer

I'm not really planning on coming around to where you are on that.

But I've got my socks, don't worry

And I know where the sun rises

Location:Melvin Dr,Baltimore,United States