Kalifornia
She told me that she loved me.
I was only 8 years old.
She spoke of getting married
After we were grown.
Tributes
A Time to Heal
Bipolar disorder (Noun) A psychiatric disorder marked by alternating episodes of mania and depression. That is a fact. Here is my slice of that storm.
Gaps in Résumé
Growing up in my day (gosh, I sound old), everybody wanted to be a rapper. Everybody wanted to battle. Everybody wanted to blow up. Everybody was going for everybody. And then it died out. We died out. I have to bury myself within these pages just to feel alive, and in the process …
Phone Sox
I watched in confused amazement as the
inmate carefully slipped a sock over his phone
like a giant cotton condom
before placing the bone phone up to his ear.
Lament: I Am Implication
an afterthought,
meat gone rancid,
Anna Karenina in blue hose,
ephemerata.
Through New Year’s Eve
1999—Prince sang about it.
Media over-conflated it, remember?
Y2K—computers worldwide would
crash.