They always told me that some day I would understand. That seemed to be the only response to any religious inquiry my young mouth could ask, as though that was the only answer my young mind could comprehend. That someday the sun would shine down upon my shadowy doubt and the small buds of curiosity [...]

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“a short play”
There is a man and a woman sitting in a living room. The man is on one couch and the woman is on a separate couch.
The man: (repeatedly pointing and clicking the remote) Fuck—why won’t this thing work?
The woman: (painting her toenails) What won’t work?
The man: (tapping the remote with his hand then [...]

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  bee
love is a honeybee
passing and becoming
all things between us
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
After Los Angeles (April 10, 1964 — for Glenn Gould’s piano)
Under absent hands, keys grow cold and the world’s softest hammers cease inside of a black, wooden coffin as the strings turn pale with dust and silently lose their tune.

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I measured his toes
against the segments
of my fingers
in those first few days
just brushing the bottoms
of his feet made him jerk
away, ticklish
now those toes are open
and wounded
I’ve carried him home
cleaned and calmed
my gut tells me to tear
out every brick in the city
punish the sidewalk

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We were
halfway between Des Moines and St Louis,
low on gas,
out of smokes,
far into the pangs of delirium tremens,
hopped up on powders that give nose bleeds,
cringing at every ray of sunlight and birdsong,
sucking down carbonated, caffeinated beverages
in order to prop open those heavy eyelids
when I noticed that
the FASTER I drove
the FATTER I would become.
Now, I’m no [...]

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Midwest Dilemma is an Omaha band ranging from one to twenty-two people. In the past year, since I met Justin Lamoureux - the central figure and songwriter for Midwest Dilemma - on a blizzardy night in Des Moines that kept everyone from our show except the musicians, I have been able to see many different [...]

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