carefully select each cut to the page
if you gotta erase masturbate to the palimpsests
porn stashin’ draft hoarder
hancock blot on the dotted
no nonsense draft order
eighteen, enlist and garrotted
nineteen trying to stop the bleed? i doubt it
scribble on my body, cover me in ink
strip me of my spine, memorize and repeat cuz
aside from a peek, peck, prick, or a poke they ride
okidoki offin’ on knives doki doki yuri
off and on ‘til the off switch flip
if the light is too bright, dim the shame then delete it
the /// game is to beat it however that you see fit
cheat if you need to achieve completion
name the folder, save then load it
only sin once? pick up the pen and own it

only sin once, pick up the pen and own it
if you only sin once, pick up the pen

show me a slice or market your slit
edge on the fore or a blade on your
credibility, got documents?
thanks for feeling we, peeling back commas
graphite ‘til the last insight
while the rest of us zest with the restless
i confess a less than embarrassed
bayonet bearer: cherish or fester?
twins of thine terrors
face ‘em head on, page as a mirror
more poignant than we let on, fearful
the real cheer smears when love high looms
dagger-like reciting sestinas in bedrooms
sick sick sick sick sick sick three more
lines in due time sickle sing falsetto
fine poet superego hopes never shows it
if you only id once, pick up the pen and own it

only id once, pick up the pen and own it
if you only live once, sharpen

accolades to those
who made suicide the first time
i presume prose is better where you go
than where you’ve gone, even if you’re gone
so that when you’re gone
bereavement is an achievement
take it or leave it
literally life
i’d to celebrate either
and that’s why write
nobody said that it’s right
ergo the poet’s whet stone shines viable despite
repetition, toss aside edits like tissue
stowaway the silicone and simile misuse
lock the journal, nocturnal prevue to
lewd pulses of a severed vein, darling i
miss you (wait)
baby you would wield a sword within a pencil
born to die prehensile, reminding rhyme too
can commit seppuku: own it