About Me
I look at the world and think about what does, and what doesn't look back. Everything is a miracle, everything is beautiful;tapirs, thunderheads, hand grenades, lichen, green eyes, brickwork, scar tissue, hedges, hangnails, death rattles. I write about this sometimes.
I've had, or am about to have, poems published in Coffee House Poetry, Fire, Remark, Zygote in my Coffee, My favorite bullet, Underground Voices, Nupenz, Word Riot, LitVision, Instant Pussy, MEAT, 86 Magazine, Defenestration, Poultry Broadside, Underground Window, Words Dance, Cherry Bleeds, deComp, Triptych Haiku, Denver Syntax, Blowback, Fourvolt, Meat-Mag, Red Fez, Poesy, St. Vitus Press, WriteOff, Unquiet Desperation, Inbetween Hangovers, INTHEFRAY, The Quirk, Noveltown, Debris, NeoLampshadian Outpost, Laura Hird's Showcase, Silenced Press, Straight from the fridge, Calliope Nerve, Hecale, ArtCandy, and The Guild of Outsider Writers.
Two chapbooks coming out in the very near future; "Everyone knows this is nowhere" with Ed Churchouse (Audacious Art Experiment) and "Propaganda for an ego" (Scintillating Publications). Buy them, fer Chrissakes!
"Our task as men is to find those first few principles that will calm the infinite anguish of free souls. We must stitch upwhat has been torn apart, render justice imaginable in the world which is so obviously unjust, make happiness meaningful fornations poisoned by the misery of this century. Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But tasks are called superhuman when mentake a long time to complete them, that is all." - Albert Camus, The Almond Trees
"Do not become so revolutionary you begin to ignore the parts of the world you would not change" - Miles J. Bell, in a raremoment of lucidity
"It’s like God’s up there playin’ craps, an’ all of us peoples is just one roll of the dice. You ain’t gonna be a seven everyday, but you can hope, and most times that’s enough for me." - Black-Eye Titus
"The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to pure democracy...Power based on love is thousand times more effective and permanent than power derived from fear of punishment....It is a blasphemy to say non-violence can be practiced only by individuals and never by nations which are composed of individuals...The nearest approach to purest anarchy would be a democracy based on non-violence...A society organized and run on the basis of complete non-violence would be the purest anarchy...." - Mahatma Gandhi
"You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea." - Pablo Picasso
"But there was a wisdom in it all, as you'll see if you take a walk some night on a suburban street and pass house after house on both sides of the street each with the lamplight of the living room, shining golden, and inside the little blue square of the television, each living family riveting its attention on probably one show; nobody talking; silence in the yards; dogs barking at you because you pass on human feet instead of on wheels. You'll see what I mean, when it begins to appear like everybody in the world is soon going to be thinking the same way and the Zen Lunatics have long joined dust, laughter on their dust lips." - Jack Kerouac
