() to be read aloud

You can't feel good too long

calm like you could do anything

need that one

sting that stems from another

weak

(quick inhale with mouth) after week

a pain shifting

(quick inhale with nose)

(hand gestures from region to region)

from your groin to your back to your chest to your throat

you breath deeply

(long inhale and exhale)

take over the counter remedies

reminding yourself it's

nothing

(pause)

then you feel good again

you drink and smoke a lot

(smiling) hoping

to feel like shit again in the morning

Staying Awake

if I weren't hungry

I wouldn't have

to fall asleep

Philosophy's

not what happens

She is

where

I am

here

listening to waves

reading zen poems

every where's

she is

every here's

I am

every sky's

the same

Another Day

you would expect

you would hope

then the lights

you're a lone

I write poetry because I don't like it

you
deserve
it