Saturday, December 6, 2014

Meaningless Nothings

I'm just going to play it by ear.
What does that even mean?
That's a great question.
The answer is
I don't know.
The answer is always
I don't know.

Always?

But you said change is the only constant
I'm confused

Monday, December 1, 2014

so long, frank lloyd wright

hello, artificial architects
hi, charles bukowski
greetings, isabel marant
howdy, sally mann

so long, frank lloyd wright

Sunday, November 30, 2014

Folder Name: Rivera, D

you shoved our memories into a folder on your external hard drive. you are archiving me like some old hand-drawn map in the dingy, dusty basement of a museum that no one gives a shit about.

untitled

all that's left is
a house on mango street
remnants
some stubble and
emersonian glee

best friend

poster child
my achilles' heel
whistle-blower
a new man

Google: A Love Story

Jetblue
Office depot
Netflix
Amazon
Target
Hotmail
Aol
Nordstrom

Junkyard Orbit Necrophile Axe Tank Human Apocalyptic Nirvana

personal demiurge make a toast oral fixation

rite of passage a virtuous night tactile corruption

call the station send a request aural penetration

blind optimism rose-tinted noise visual refraction

See Daddy? Sinners have souls, too.

how very candid of you
you mean to tell me
you are a homotextual
 
no, a sapiosexual
but to me it's all the same
 
homotextuality
and same text marriage
black on black
white on white
 
yes
 
you are a daft punk
i want you to know
i mean that in the kindest of ways

BMP

mere coincidence
or divine wink
the latter
i'd like to think

sherry turkle
ashley montagu
jim jones
alan rath
the word trope
philology
jane fucking jacobs
and tulip fields

phenomenal indeed

there's a name for that,
you know?
baader meinhof

spell it for me

will you remember?

yes

B-A-A-D-E-R 
M-E-I-N-H-O-F

point of interest

i love you

i love you more

how do you know?
there's no such thing 
as a richter scale for love

which brings me to my next conclusion

love can't be quantified
therefore it is imaginary

two too many drinks

vomit city, here we come
speeding on the highway
in the jalopy

a blow to the face
then another
and another

we made it
bruises and broken dashboards
bloody knuckles

where's my shirt

All these people on the planet

working 9 to 5 just to stay alive
working 9 to 5 just to stay alive
working 9 to 5 just to stay alive
working 9 to 5 just to stay alive
working 9 to 5 just to stay alive
working 9 to 5 just to stay alive
working 9 to 5 just to stay alive
working 9 to 5 just to stay alive

Post-Modern Boy

I made a digital shrine
Just for you

I'm so Post-Modern
Just like you

We are one 
and the same

Two peas in a broken pod

Saturday, November 29, 2014

Rodrigo Armando Francisco Eduardo

ends with the letter O
like the rest
the same, but not
Eduardo is actually quadrisyllabic
unlike the rest

A Story of Post-Modern Love

They met in LA
a couple of Mexican immigrants
rolling stones,
rolling with the punches
Jabs of Life
She was married,
with 4 children
He was married,
with 4 children
that didn't stop them
from falling
in love
lust
luck
fuck

They fled
together

Miami
was sunny and warm

and far
away from LA

with love and utmost sincerity

you are like a permanent ink stain in my memory. no matter what, i know you'll always exist there. when i look at the stain, i won't be annoyed. i'll smile to myself and i'll remember

your teeth

lovely hands

watching parks and rec

making love with the red light bulb on

walking with your hand wrapped reassuringly around mine

Saturday, September 20, 2014

27

It happened around the time I turned twenty seven.
Actually, it was exactly two days shy of my twenty-seventh birthday
that the idea occurred to me.

It had been slowly making its way
to the forefront of my thoughts.

Two days before my twenty-seventh birthday
I decided I would be happy for the rest of my life.

Sunday, September 7, 2014

All will be still and perfect

We'll get married
I'll wear a Mara Hoffman dress and a beautiful flower crown
He'll hold my hand and run his fingers through my hair
On our honeymoon
We'll get naked
And draw on each other's bodies
We'll make art together
We'll have great sex and go to Key West and cook together
It'll be the four of us in our cozy apartment

Us

And our two pugs
one black, one fawn
We'll be partners in our office
We'll call ourselves Artificial Architects
And we'll make beautiful buildings
The pugs will grow old
And so will we
But our love for each other will be undying
He won't abandon me
We'll be together until we die

All will be still and perfect