Draft 2, Still No TitleGabriel didn't know he was sitting half lotus on the sunwarmed sidewalk while he covered it with refrigerator quality kiddy cavepaintings. Xs and Os like kisses and hugs or the blackboard in the locker room. A family portrait with an angel haired kid, a willowy women and a question mark. Eventually the sun went down and he went inside and up the stairs and in the door that was always open because his mom kept saying there was nothing worth stealing in there. When he walked in his room, he swept the blonde hair out of his eyes and did a dramatDraft 2, Still No Title
Work in ProgressGabriel didn't know he was sitting half lotus on the sunwarmed sidewalk while he covered it with refrigerator quality kiddy cavepaintings. Xs and Os like kisses and hugs or the blackboard in the locker room. A family portrait with an angel haired kid, a willowy women and a question mark. Eventually the sun went down and he went inside and up the stairs and in the door that was always open because his mom kept saying there was nothing worth stealing in there. When he walked in his room, he swept the blonde hair out of his eyes and did a dramatic doubletake like the cartoons taught him to do.&nWork in Progress
Those Fucking RibcagesThe odds of being struck by lightning are One in two hundred sixty thousand Unless you're standing In the thunderstorm dangerzone Situated in my synapses I try to build a blank canvas in my head But Jackson Pollock's been everywhere I try to avoid abstractions And I try to avoid cliches So I'm left with a blank page on my desk And too many men in my head That speak in thunderous voices Like some Greek Gods you may have imagined And wear Halloween costumes Probably s'posed to look like skeletons And when they take off their masks I see faces of peopThose Fucking Ribcages
Attention ShoppersAttention shoppers There will be an additional twenty percent Discount offered to all those who'd like To sell their soul And surrender control To the man in the back of the store With the pitchfork and horns Like you saw on TV Back when you were three Before you ever heard Words like lethargy Apathy, the spiritual atrophy associated With white men getting fat intoxicated Changing the channel when they should be Out changing the world for you and meAttention Shoppers
I have looked for God's face on milk cartons and dollar bills Fingers crossed for a Rapture t
