Dear Alessia 122821
The new year fast approachesAnd so the reflection of coming resolutionsSpins in nostalgia’s rear viewAs life moves on And further down the futures forgotten tracksI look forward to fasting and reclaiming a rock solid health regimeWe’ve been eating ice cream and watching NetflixUnwinding and letting go for a bitBut voiding discipline only works so longBefore […]
Dear Alessia 122721
Part 3 (down a street of shattered glass) Henry and PepperFound an apartment in Cobble HillDown a street of shattered glassThe cars had been broken into the night before Smash and grabsFive or six of themShattered passenger sides of else black glass in the drivers seatCareful Henry said as Pepper walked through What looked like […]
Dear Alessia 122521
Pepper the mouse walked in the kitchenAnd glanced over the table saltThe lights were on But all the humans were sleeping It was Christmas morning And the low hum from the fridgeWas talking with its cryptic tongue to the birds Just outside the windowOf the brooklyn DawnHenry walked up to pepper and held her eyes […]
Dear Alessia 122821
The new year fast approachesAnd so the reflection of coming resolutionsSpins in nostalgia’s rear viewAs life moves on And further down the futures forgotten tracksI look forward to fasting and reclaiming a rock solid health regimeWe’ve been eating ice cream and watching NetflixUnwinding and letting go for a bitBut voiding discipline only works so longBefore […]
Dear Alessia 122321
Enjoy every sandwich Enjoy every danceEnjoy every smileEnjoy every chanceEnjoy every recordEnjoy every loveEnjoy every night falland the Dawn’s homeward doveEnjoy every candleEnjoy every flameEnjoy every strangerLearn every nameEnjoy every jokesterEnjoy every laughEnjoy getting dirtyEnjoy every bathThe moon is a fountainOf light pouring downThe sun is a gut punchFrom way undergroundSpace is a vortexOf God’s […]
Dear Alessia 122221
Life has those momentsWhich can be yearsOr even lifetimesWhen the stress piles upAnd inspiration is a shadow puppet of your former selfIn a dilapidated wall burning downIt’s like you’re being attacked by a street gang called worry half the timeAnd the other gang in the neighborhood The competing factionCalled regret You reach for things that […]
Dear Alessia 122121
Become a super conductor for strange lightIt’s your duty nowWhen the will to live is under attackYou have to go towards the life affirming activitiesLike a character in a video gameIt helps to turn it into a gameTo depersonalize and take the intense poetryOut of itThe yawning nostalgiaTurn life into a Rocky movieBut not the […]
Dear Alessia 122021
619 amAnd I’ve already broken all kinds of rules for the dayAnd am leap frogging mental road blocks Heroically though words are appearing on the pageOn the digital screenSo like a fighter against forgotten ropesI keep swinging And victory is mineThe wins can pile up too. I can get into the cold showerAnd go for […]
Dear Alessia 121521
To walk by faith and not by sightTo rebuild and renew without fear submerging you in dustTo trust the process as the hornets of lifeSurround you To not be intimidated by the screams of your childEither the joyful ones or the ones that come from painThe weight of a human life on your shouldersBut we […]
Dear Alessia 121121
What can we do and say here ?Why shouldn’t we speak into this life?What are the consequences of following the apple cart straight out of town?And what of the rumor of our cities burning down?You have to protect a space where you can function and thinkAnd be immune to the manipulations flying all around usWith […]