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—I WISH I HAD A SYLVIA PLATH, A BUSTED TOOTH AND A SMILE

 

 

...“Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment.” Rumi

 

…Who has a debate with themselves at 3:58am? Oh yeah, that would be no one.

 

…But they’re all white people.

 

...Three weeks ago he called a female reporter, “Piggie, Piggie.” Two weeks ago he called a different female reporter, “Ugly inside and out.” Last week he asked a different female reporter if she was “a stupid person.” How is this okay? 

 

…I was breathing but not alive.

 

…So what if it’s a hoax, as long as it works the way it’s supposed to?

 

…You have been the friend that never left.

 

…I don’t get it all, but it works.

 

--You don’t talk much.

--I know.

--You should talk more.

--I know.

--It would help.

--I know.

 

…It’s funny the things that can get to you if you let them.

 

…Well, you know, that’s because it’s dangerous.

 

…I still don’t know how I got so lucky. That’s not usually how the movie ends.

 

…Christmas time is always a bit fragile for me. I wish I could appreciate and celebrate it like most people, but I’m still not there yet.

 

…Give me a ring when I’m a little bit older and I’ll tell you a story for free.

 

..It’s weird when you have a dog for several days and then you don’t. It’s like you’re always thinking they need to go out. It’s like always thinking there’s something warm nearby that loves and needs you. 

 

…I think I’m getting there, but don’t call a cab quite yet.

 

…I think I might just be trying really hard to fool myself.

 

…I don’t even know what that means, and I’m the one who wrote it.

 

…Now you’re just being stupid again.

 

…Yeah, this could end up being incredibly stupid.

 

…I sure reference “stupid” a lot. That has to mean something.

 

…I think I liked it better when it was wrong.

 

…You know what this is going to be? A long fucking day… But that’s okay. It’s a day.

 

… “There is power in forgiveness.” Angela Maples

 

…Call me when you calm down, or better yet, when you’re sober.

 

…If you can get there, it’ll sound a lot better tomorrow. 

 

…Something I say to myself more than other people do is, “This could be trouble.”

 

…Wait, what the heck’s going on here?

 

…Maybe, maybe, I don’t know. Just don’t be weird.

 

…You’re absolute trouble.

 

…“It feels like so much to be told you have three weeks left to live. Like three whole weeks? That’s incredible.” Andrea Gibson

 

…Sometimes you don’t know that you have expectations until you are disappointed.

 

…Take what the defense gives you.

 

…That looked like hands-to-the-face to me.

 

…You can hear anything through a window if you listen hard enough.

 

…You should take a photo any time you’re with someone you care about. It might feel awkward at the time, but it won’t when you see it back. Trust me.

 

…Well, in the moment, you weren’t all that kind.

 

…“You have to trust the life you ended up with, to live with its nonsense and its wisdom. Read the life you were given and write the life you were given. When you were born you’re given a stack of metaphors. Every poem is another step backwards or forwards. Don’t over workshop or listen too hard to what others are doing or imitate the crowd. Poetry is a private act. Have the guts to be lonely.” Diane Suess 

 

…I’m a wordy motherfucker.

 

…Why does that matter so much to you? That’s always the question.

                    “So, anyway, tell me something about yourself.”

 

…Leave the writer alone, right?

 

…Now I’m just being stupid again.

 

…I’ve got a little dog with me that weighs a lot more than she looks, I’m telling you.

 

…I don’t think I want know that right now.

 

…More of the same isn’t always bad.

 

…I never in my life thought I’d be advocating for Jeffrey Epstein, a child molester, but he’s not wrong here--"i have met some very bad people, none as bad as Trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous," 

 

…Why do I cry so much?  Is that a good thing, or a weakness. Why doe any man cry so much?

 

…It’s 5:30am, time to take your earbuds out.

 

…Why’re you looking over there when the trainwreck’s right here?

 

...Do you wanna talk, because it seems like you want to talk?

 

…Here Comes the Flood

 

emotional intelligence 

is the toughest 

brain-stuff 

to master 

because the heart 

always interferes.  

       ----Brian Fuggett

 

…What’s the point of that?

 

…It depends on what you get next, right?

 

…So, maybe that’s where we go someday.

 

…The ducks all look that same a 4am.

 

...It’s actually not really fair to share a poem with someone who doesn’t like poetry and expect them to say something complimentary.

 

…You can come if you want to, but I doubt I’ll be around.

 

…Yeah, but would you really do it?

 

…I saw “myself on the floor”, and so on.

 

…Obviously, I’m not alone in this.

 

…if that’s the way you want it, I’ll leave you alone.

 

“Routine is a condition of survival.” Flannery O’Connor

 

…It’s odd to cherish the idea that you’re the only one awake at this hour.

 

...I just have to remember not to second guess myself so much.

 

… "Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted."  Sylvia Plath

 

—YOU NEVER STOP, YOU NEVER STOP WORKING

 

Diner

 

The waitress who brings 

my waffles sets them down, 

syrup running over everything 

like fool’s gold and suddenly 

I can’t stop crying, tears like 

dead pearls watering the maple 

until its luster’s gone.

For a few moments, we 

stare at each other without speaking. 

No one notices us or recognizes how 

much she resembles my daughter 

that day the semi turned wrong and 

the diner ended up shorthanded.   

 —POOR YOUNG GRANDSON, THERE’S NOTHING I CAN SAY

Fourth Grade

 

We don’t have to 

take our clothes off, 

I can see you all your 

scars and flaws from here, 

halfway across the moon, 

how they pulse beneath 

your skin like a beetle,

as if it was all your fault

though it wasn’t it wasn’t and 

it’s sure not now, so here’s my 

skinny scarecrow frame 

standing in front of you,

by the locker, library, lunchroom 

and backrow bus seat,

ready to take a punch or flame for you.

Let’s hold hands, go home,

skip on the way if we want,

count all the stars and light our own fire,

one that can’t ever be doused.

 

—YOU BETTER BE LIGHTNING

 

 

https://www.bloodhoneylit.com/poetry/kuntz-two-poems

 

…There is only so much love can do.

 

…It’s like a miracle when a miracle happens.

 

…Sometimes it just feels good to have a cry.

 

…Apparently, I couldn’t get aligned properly.

 

…Some things are never easy to admit.

 

…“When you are dying, at least in my limited experience, you start remembering everything.” Tatiana Scholssberg.

 

…So why was that a good idea?

 

…The closer I got, the farther it pushed me away.

 

…I’ve seen things that just aren’t there.

 

…Spent a lot of lonely nights trying to stitch my scars.

 

…You don’t forget certain moments.

 

...The thing you always have to remind yourself of is---you never know.

 

…Just give me someone I can trust, and I’ll be with you until the end.

 

…911, what your emergency?

 

…I might be experiencing technical difficulty.

 

…I think God must be trying to tell me something.

 

…I keep thinking there’s a dog nearby, who’s going to jump up when I get up, but there isn’t one.

 

…Sometimes I get too angry at myself, by myself, and so it goes nowhere.

 

…Wow, well, that was a day.

 

…That’s probably all I wanted, though I wanted more.

 

...What’s the point of my life at this point?

 

…Whole lot of woulda, coulda, shouda can’t help me now.

 

…It’s a pretty brutal existence, just waiting for a reply, but it’s better than waiting for death.

 

…Believe it or not, that’s what I meant.

 

…Nobody could tell me, I had to find out for myself. 

 

…Oy yeah, we got that down. Verbatim.

 

…I wonder what you were like then.

 

...Dreams are never really gone if someone’s dreaming with you.

 

…It’s always difficult when the example doesn’t work.

 

…Throw me a rope, Somebody, please?

 

…If you’re actually texting people at 4am, and they’re texting you back, that something special. 

 

…This doesn’t exactly feel right, but it feels necessary. 

 

…I think I have to stop manifesting things.

 

.,,,Even when I’m weak, I’m still going to try to win.

 

…I hate reading through my junk mail, (who doesn’t?  or who does?) but when you’re a writer, it’s kind or paramount.  

 

…You can just drop that off right there, thank you.

 

…Is that all you want to take from me?

 

…What’s wrong with this picture?

 

…Subtly is pretty important.

 

…I guess I just don’t want to be one of those people who is totally full of shit, where everyone knows it but me.

 

…Yeah, but there’s nobody there.

 

…Why am I even in this picture?

 

…You’re out there living your best life (yay) and I’m here about to live my next and last life.

 

…There’s really something wonderful about being awake at 3am when no one else is. It’s one of those things you’d have to experience to understand.

 

…Is that a good question? Because I think it was a good question.

 

…Should you, or I be concerned right now? 

 

…Yeah, I know. I’ve seen this movie before as well.

 

…You can’t second-guess a second-guess, can you?

 

…I’ll double-check, but I’m pretty sure nothing’s changed.

 

…How many times can you say, “I give” before it’s the last one?

 

…It’s only funny if you think it is.

 

…This is stupid. I mean, isn’t this stupid?

 

…Fruit was something we didn’t eat when I was a kid, unless you were out in the fields picking it. I recall stuffing my mouth with gobs of pie cherries that were probably sprayed with all kinds of toxic things, because they tasted so bitter, but there they were, in my mouth. 

 

…Don’t make it a thing: Love who you love, and everyone else can Fuck off.

 

…How is this even going to work?

 

…I keep saying last time twenty-five times. Do other people do that? I have no idea.

 

…Of course, I always wanted to be popular, because I was anything but, but then I was popular and now that’s one of the least priorities in my life, so long as the people I love know how much I love them. If that’s popular, I’ll take, if not, I’m good.

 

… "In the end, everyone is aware of this: nobody keeps any of what he has, and life is only a borrowing of bones." Pablo Neruda 

 

…I no longer correct my typos in texts. I hate them, but they’re a part of the deal, especially, with hypertext.

 

…In the meantime, what happened to you that was really important? 

 

…That cannot be that, can it?

 

…Memory is so important, but it’s faulty. Some of those things happened just like that, just like you remembered them, but some didn’t at all.

 

…One of the great joys of life is discovering new music, a new artist.

 

…“I wake up some mornings and have my coffee and look at my beautiful garden and I go, ‘Remember how good this is, because you can lose it’.” Jim Carrey