Sun shines on you. Falls onto the floor, and it’s 8 in the morning Don’t move. Don’t get up. Dissolve into something more diffuse Whisper in my ear something you think I should hear Tell me I’m worthless and I will believe Tell me I’m nothing but a soul slowly disappearing...Learn More

A tinny speaker and song you like An ordinary midweek night when anything was possible Now things are definite. Everything has a precedent You still like that song. Still singing along But it’s stuffed in your pocket. Don’t see it very often Only a glimpse, what else could have been? Now things are definite. Everything has a precedent It still...Learn More

On a cold day You complain to me That your life's not panning out "I guess I wanted everything to work out perfectly" From the back row You can watch things unfold And no one has to know No one has to know Swallow your medicine Your headache's coming back with a vengeance I can't remember my dreams When I drag myself out from the sheets And the...Learn More

My shoe scrapes the concrete floor. I wait, I’m not sure I don’t think it’s going to happen. Inaction is a chasm I see the clouds but I can’t get out Chain link surrounding an abandoned shell of a building You jumped over but I didn’t try I’m sorry for wasting your time The air feels still around me I see the clouds above Drifting by Drifting...Learn More

Wandering vaguely through the streets I haven’t been outside in weeks And I cannot remember what happened yesterday Don’t even bother with asking It doesn’t matter what I think I don’t know why you’re nice to me, I don’t deserve it I am a part of the problem And you probably think I hate you But I say it’s not true I’m just in a mood Tomorrow I...Learn More

I walk down Benevolent Street in Providence My dad called me yesterday at work And I cried in the closet Prick my heart with a pin I’m deflating and everything is pointless What’s been laid out in front of me? Sticker on the back of the truck is faded and scratched White and blue. It says “I never leave Rhode Island.” I wish that were true Are...Learn More

Laying in bed at night Listening to the raindrops outside Splatter against the pane As I hold you close to me Don’t listen to the voices in your head If they’re saying you need to change You should listen to the rain instead You already fell asleep I can tell by the way your body’s jerking No one can explain you to me I am learning and relearning...Learn More

Bottom bunk, 1999 Shaking fan blades try to ease my mind, but I’m spinning I feel afraid to die In the darkness of my 11 year old existential crisis Sodium vapor streetlights are standing alone outside Their faint yellow rays slip in through the blinds and find me I need my parents to hug me But I don’t want to wake them I think I can make it...Learn More

If we try to learn some songs On unamplified electric guitars Maybe I won’t feel so down Maybe I won’t feel so down If we play a show or two At least we’ll have something to do Maybe I won’t feel so down Maybe everything will all work out If I ever move away from Texas I could come back to visit Maybe I won’t feel so down Maybe everything will...Learn More