Rhymes with Crimes

I don’t like it though you may like it because you have done it before. But I still don’t like it and I won’t do it and there’s nothing you can do no more.
Sink my shoes into mud, burn my pinky with boiling water, and do everything, stuff you’ll forget.  I fear my old grade [...]

Like a High School Confession

Thank you!
Where I came from, swampy filth sticks to the soles,
Night is greedy and frost sulks in the pores.
Stumbling on rocky, weed-infested Fridays,
I fell to the light, sank into the vacuum of your brown eyes,
Watched myself self-destruct then fuse again,
A replay of that Big Bang cliche, overplayed, like a rant on our latest pay.
And far [...]

The Complexity of Coolness

Multicolored lights slice through the darkness.
Sweat splashes through the thin air in some
Headache-inducing bar that pulls brains out of ears!
I picture such a thing in the embers of the dying cigarette stick,
With its fire throbbing violently on the floor.
I stare at the complexity of coolness right in the eye,
Hang my head down like an insignificant [...]