While it’s been quite a few years since I’ve done any serious writing, I thought I would take some time to put up my writing from years past. Not sure what I expect to come of this, but it would be nice to have it displayed somewhere, even if just to remind me of my youth. Nothing posted will be more recent than the ten years, and I can’t be too sure I remember the mood or reason I wrote most of this. All in all, good, bad, horrific, ugly, or embarrassing, it’s a-going up on spb.

Disclaimer: Comments by my wife on these poems, made me realize that a lot of these poems, especially the ones with provocative titles, lack any sort of context as is on this page. The reality is, most of these poems are meant as observations, but my lack of skill and experience sometimes makes them very crude. Between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one, I was a rough poet and an incomplete person. Took me a while to really figure everything out as a person. I didn’t have a tough life, and actually, everything turned out pretty good. I just had some personality flaws that I sometimes tried to work out in poems, or I would try to write about what I thought from observation people were thinking about their own situations. Sometimes I hit, sometimes I was artless. These poems and prose would probably disqualify me from ever running for public office, but I put them up as a record of myself, warts and all.

Poems

Somebody Else’s “Whore” - This is my attempt at using obvious metaphors. not sure I pulled it off though.

Freak Show - Not sure when I wrote this

Fucking Whore - not an endorsement, this poem was an observation of someone else I knew

Hell Froze Over That Day - Sounds kind of emo, and not in a good way

Pointless - sophomore year of college

Question ? - sophomore year of college

I Did Not Show It - can’t remember when I wrote it

I Was Damned - I think this is from high school

Rainy Day - pretty sure this is freshman yea of college

Wake Up - freshman year of college

Heads: Who Wins? - sophomore year I think

Hell’s Fire - sophomore year of college

Life Becomes Me Not - junior year of high school

Don’t Try - junior year of high school

Whirlpool of Life - junior year of high school

Change - not sure when I wrote this

Tension - don’t know when I wrote this

Will? - this feels like a high school poem

Revolution for Primetime - I think this was senior year of college

Universe - freshman year of college

One More Statistic - sophomore year of high school I think. it was written about a kid a couple grades ahead of me who killed himself a few months before he would have graduated

Stoked - no idea

Bleed - I think freshman year of college

Reach the Equal - pretty sure this was freshman year of college

Prose

The Gray - my first story in a while

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