bone cloud (prismacolor marker on sketch paper)

the arapahoe basin

the grey pillow of sky

tucked into the corner

of the mountain range

an oily smear of road

stretching into the future

where the skiing was

dreaming perfectly content

to live through this day where

bono's voice fills the room

the bucking delay of guitars

the sense of what the world

looked like twenty years ago

standing under the heating vent

not yet ready to show the world

our long, thick, shaved vaginal folds

still not finding what we were

looking for, dogs and drugs,

turquoise ribbed rivers

sparkling caves of blackness

filled with nose horses

riding off into the forever

(blood came out of her blurry face

bleeding the chin of divorce)

straight into the fists of detroit

all better (watercolor on watercolor paper)

oops

this poem wants to fuck a fat bitch 

with bad breath

sober as the moon

with no excuses

this poem has a PHD in european history

this poem takes advil motherfucker

this poem will get your ass killed if you

decide to go into war with just this poem

this poem is a shut in who would prefer to order out

this poem is a forest bee. naked and unassuming

this poem doesn't give a shit about your needs

this poem is very angry at you for leaving

this poem won't be that sad when

the entire world is destroyed to death

this is a bad poem

a very bad poem

oh my god (watercolor on watercolor paper)

el tigre

the unbridled fury of revlon

an unlit avalanche of powder

and formal introduction of foundation

filling in the lines and wrinkles

celebrating the smooth skin of 

the bipedal land lioness™ 

the twin berlin walls of mascara

an aubergine sky above the

stone quarry of concealer 

below inside a shadow a

roseberry bush of blush

two brown oily lips

underneath which, fordyce

spots collect the television

light and throw it towards my

face. wet stars clinging to

the photoreceptors of

my inner eye lounge

my head is a blue circle

i drag it up and down

your head. the point i'm 

staring at and suddenly

everything is quite clear

we are completely lost

the sunbathers (pencil and watercolor on watercolor paper)

getting ready to work out

you are in your car

it is under the lake

at disneyworld and

sadness is filling 

up the black inside

of your whole head

it moves into your eyes

and onto your face

at the bookstore while

looking at a picture of

joan jet looking at you 

open and beautiful and

drunk and not giving a

fuck and ready to love

you maybe if you would

have been really lucky

but not now for sure

for sure not now=cause

that joan jet is dead and 

love is the only thing that 

will save you and not the 

names of parties or the 

mountain of mischief or 

that sweet black hat

not from the inoperable cancer

that is coming or the end of

the blue sky that sits on our 

lives please come here quick

and help me sleep at night

please! before it's too late

the mourners (watercolor on watercolor paper)

the nagging feeling i'm doing 

something terribly wrong

the little girl drags the dead lion head

down the dirty aisle of the awards show

he eats an orange in front of the tv

the end of the world in the distance

a small but dangerous tiger

not a tiger, i'm sorry, a bald giant

a medieval giant with magnificent legs 

and long fingers, the fingers of sorrow

heats up a bowl of chili. it knows well

of sleepless nights on the mountain

i pleaded with you to stay behind 

with the rest of us, but you left anyway

now i can't stop applying your lipstick or

making change at jamaica for babylon

the onlookers (watercolor on watercolor paper)

no place for a gringo

the monkey had brought the money

in a yellow box made out of honey

and rainbows were like everywhere

and there was cocaine in the teddy bear

and i could see the future in your pinto

and aunt jemima started to whisper into

my cold night ear the name of jesus

the true name of god: __________

her taloned plastic fingers kept scraping 

pustules from my naked shoulders

as i genuflected into the cauliflower

my grey balls heavy with powder

count chocula wiping the blood off his 

dick screaming something about being

late for an appointment, hanging on

upside down became a bat and flew away

the naked unarmed executioner (ink pen and watercolor on watercolor paper)

time is the only thing

that stands between us now

because you will 

be mine once i part the curtains

abundant and flowing across

the sea of possibility

because you will

i invented a new word

it means nothing hasn't happened

yet that can't be unhappened yet

because you will

an old lonely man sits in

his car outside the HEB in

bee cave. his menacing grey beard

because you will

i'm dreaming in this world

awake and dreaming in this

wonderful world full of possibility

because you will

i used to believe in choice but

now i see there is only one way

everything will go down

Wide Open Spaces (graphite on three illustration boards)