not trying

This is me
This is me not trying

I'm bored
    and directionless

But the rain
                    sounds pretty



-Jim
March 10, 2011

mediocre

WHy keep on
    with the mediocre?

    Like this pen.

I feel like I shouldn't
    waste things.

Which isn't a bad idea,
    but if it is applied
    too rigidly and keeps you
    in a rut,
  isn't so helpful.


-Jim
Dec 17, 2010

Promises

Before you died,
we knew you were sick
for a long time
and I always imagined
being there
for your final moments
and promising you
that I
would always
be there for your son.

(But) when your end came
you were unconscious
and in a different state
and it turns out
that those imagined moments
were disguised promises
to myself.


-Jim
Sep 15, 2010

gotta write a poem

gotta write a
gotta write a poem

      "When in the course of..."

No, no!
Not right

gotta write a poem

      "I think that I shall see..."

No!

Done



-Jim
Feb 20, 2011

My Church

My church
is the sun
and the dirt
and now.


-Jim

you gave up hope

I'm sorry
you gave up hope
so long ago

-- but cut it out!

the world needs you back.


-Jim
Jan 28, 2011

Long Dream of the Stars

...like galactic sentinels
...like guideposts
...like will-o-the-wisps
    of the deep vast cold

...like angry protesters
    of the darkness
...like fiery anchors
    dropped into space
...like mitochondria
    of an emerging super-being


-Jim
Jan 31, 2011