Poems

Wallet Full Of Ghosts I watched numbers climb on my cracked old phone like a rocket leaving nightSmall coins I bought at three a.m. turning into someone else’s lightDiscord full of prophets saying “hold the linedon’t ever sell” Charts drawing mountains while my rent sank straight to hellScreenshots of my balance looked like freedom in […]

Vending Room Alarms Verse 1 The fluorescent tubes buzz loud at three A.M.Drowning out the crying down the hall. The glass front shines on rows of sugar gemsPromising a sugar rush to break the fall. The coffee spout coughs out a bitter brownIn paper cups that fold and burn the skin. A wellness poster peelingcoming

Voices in the Chorus Verse 1 Heat and glitter blurring on the streetFlags are snapping where the crosswinds meet. Walking three across and linking handsShirts with words that no one understands. Couples walking neat in front of usPalms are pressed without a fret or fuss. Behindthe poly cluster holds the signInk is wobbling on the

Walkie Choir Verse 1Plastic bricks with rubber antennas crackle in kids’ hands like budget magic wandsChannels half-filled with truckers, spooked neighborsprank stations repeating the same dumb curse words for hoursBetween the noisethat sweet click before a friend speaksvoice warped slightly by cheap circuitryThe sound that says you’re not alone in the dark even if the

Upside Down II – Crawlspace Verse 1You went back, idiot heart and all, Boots on rotair like burned hairWhole sky stitched in meat and wiresThunder with a pulse instead of soundStreet where you kissed someone onceNow sags like wet cartilageYour old school rising in the distanceCovered in vines that twitch when you breathe. Windows blink

Upside Down Verse 1Streetlight hum, dead moths in the glasssky wrong-side out and grinning, Asphalt sweatsworms boil up, dead leaves glued down like flayed skinWind runs backward through the treesbranches claw for the groundSomewhere the town still pretends it’s fine while this copy chews on its outline. You breathe and the fog tastes burnedYou blink

Unbroken Flame Verse 1 A light that never waversburning loose and freeInside your eyes I see the mark that ties you onto me. A hunger that consumes the rooma fever in the stance, Caught inside the way you looknot leaving it to chance. Chorus Unbroken flame, burning brightCutting through the heavy night. This love is

Unread Message My contact sits gray in your chat list like a house with the porch light broken and the curtains drawn all yearI type out whole thunderstorms, hit sendthen watch the dots never appearYou are online for everyoneflashing green like a cheap bright open sign humming over late night streetsBut my words float in

Twelve Seconds To Obsolete Card key still works on the door but my badge is gone from the signHR called it a “transition” while they sliced me out of the lineSat me down in a glass box with a box already by the chairTold me I’d be “moving on” while a script took over my

Two Minutes On The Clock He swipes in through the turnstile gate with coffee breath and a tie that never sits rightFluorescent hallway hum already drilling into his skullblocking out the lightHeadset waiting on the gray laminate desk like a coiled snakeMonitors bloom with ticket queuesred numbers counting every mistakeSupervisor’s pep talk playing on repeat