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

sitting alone again at half past one...
and I still haven't figured out why I stay this way.

I'd like to let myself believe
that I can forget and move on,
and fall in love again...

but even now,
after we've resigned ourselves to friendship
All I can do is remember how we used to be.
I know...
that things will never be the same,
never be as good,
never be the same...
never be the same...

But part of me goes over that,
again and again,
and I can't help but think
that it will be better.

I try to force myself into giving up,
since everything I know
and everything I am
tells me differently...

but I can't...
or maybe I just won't.
I refuse to forget...
and I know you won't forget either...

and maybe that is what pushes me,
and drives me to try and hold onto the past...
because you remember too.
and you believed in us.
sometimes more than I deserved.
and always more than I expected.




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