Technical Writing & Random Thoughts

 

Old (& not particularly good) Poetry


The Brutality of Youth - The First Words :1991-1994
Vanity - Product of a Public Education :1995-1998
The Resident Muse - The Coffeehouse Era :1999-2000
Post Education - The Hardcore Haze :2001-2002
Overworked - Reflections On A Lesser Existence :2003-2006
Daily Missives - The Poem of the Day Collection :2005-2007
Sweet Dreams And Other Fictions :2008-

 

27 Reasons to Quit Smiling

If this is forever
then why can I see the end?
why can I see myself 
walking away 
without saying goodbye.

I would freeze like a deer in headlights
if you told me in words
what your eyes say without.
How can you look at me that way?
How can you forgive yourself?

If this is the end
then why do I feel like forever, 
I could live like this without thought 
of the light at the end of the tunnel.
I could live like this without thought 
that someday, I'll have to go home.

I would run away screaming 
if you tried that with me, 
I am too grown up to play your games, 
I am too busy with my own life
to stop the bus and let you on...

If this is... 
then why do I feel like nothing is happening?
Why do I feel like we are caught in a standstill, 
waiting for the other to say something meaningful...
waiting for the other to turn around 
and walk away without saying goodbye...


Before I Do
A Place With Shade
A World Without Glitter
Adam, Eve, and an Ill Fated Apple
Aftermath
All of Our Words
At Least I Still Have The Phone Numbers
Bad Drug
Being Infinite
Better Than This
Cold
Comprehensive
Conspiracy
A Farewell To Firesigns
Don't Tell Me How I'm Supposed to Fall
Down The 3rd Step to the Basement
Drive
Forget About Being Cool
Isn't It Obvious?
Different Than Mine
We Weren't Meant to Fly
I Am Only An Architect
Cotillion
I Know This Now
I Take This All
One Half Hour
Fatal Miscalculation
Mail-Order Life
fallacy
More Than I Deserve
My House
My World
One Girl Left Standing
Playing to Die
Please Stop Pushing Now
Recycled
Ritual
Soap Opera Life
From One, To The Other
Something Else Inspiring
From Far Away Places
Spitting Fire
Intersection
The Real Me
The Roomie
Waking Alone
Unforsaken
This, In Itself
Expectation
Underscore_Hate_Underscore
This One Is Untitled
Urbanized
... Is Fullness