MY

LIEF
LIVE
SELECTED & NEW steve
POEMS: 2008-2015 roggenbuck
this book is intended to be in the public domain.
feel free to share, remix, or reprint as you like
for everyone who has helped me on tour, said nice things online,
or showed my work to friends <3 thank you
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i dont care about reading a poem

who do you think i am, robert frost?

i have never been in the woods and i hate walking

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my parents separated in the
summer of 1998
for my birthday i told my mom to get back together with my dad

we both cried for half an hour

the soundtrack for harold and maude was phenomenal

8
here are some of the slow-driving
tips that have worked for me
i call you, the phone clicks i thought it was ur mother

i guess not, she is dead

rain clouds hiting a brick library

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BYE BYE BYE.
LOOK I AM
FROM N’SYNC.
BYE BYE BYE
everybody come here i love you
i enter the beach
the very high water line chokes my face immediately
a very stern gust of wind hammers my face like a bag of
steel nuts is banging my face

i set down a cake next to a pile of boat keys

we are so dark in this place

“i would do ne-thing, like this gurl does it, she just does ne-thing !!!”
- Edgar allan poe

i thought u knew this.

i thought u belongd here with me dropping rose petals

i thought we all knew this,

pages of ripped poems

( some version of helpfulness )

ALL: pages of ripped poems

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january, and the torch of
sun is huge
i go in the wood
elms down
with a trunk hollowd out
i step
thru plants and
my neck is full of the sun
i take my hand out of my
pocket to
feel the wind with it
i am on earth and the
air is cool
how do i think about any
thing else ?
i sink my foot on a river
by low fish
my toes and all
thiss life
in me
i send my
voice on a clearing

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nobody moves
but dark
jays over high green

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i drink ten gallons of rice milk and pull the headlights out of my
car hood

now they are way gone

14
The moon is quiet i love you the
same way
it is april and your eyes
are deeper
than all poems

15
there is a show on the history channel about the mayan
doomsday prophecy

jupiter is in the south of the sky

i love you in the south like the hurricanes of jupiter

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i have two sunflowers wilting on my bookshelf

thats it

thats all

the poem is done, get out

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if you call me, i wont answer

i am sitting under the moon inside of a wheelbarrow

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GOOD FUCKING
LORD WE
ENJOY
THE WHEAT
SEASON
IN MICHIGAN
my dad’s
car . i go into a field of flower bushes with my
dad’s car , i drive the car onto
them . dust rises into the
mirrors i look
at the side
of my dad’s car , sky blue paint
job .
chrome hub caps , i turn off my dad’s car .
now i ‘m near to this wood shack that has a sheet metal
roof . a bird
flies onto the hood of my dad’s car .
this is georgia summer
i can’t believe it
1957

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to my nephew on his birthday

i will choke your dad

i dont care

im not afraid

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i’m going to the grocery store and
buy all the foods that remind me
of you
its august in michigan
we kick footballs into a cornfield

train tracks & the rain

we dont do anything its august in michigan

your warm legs fill a dress

we dont feel bad at all

the rain comes

we dont feel bad in the rain at all

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A STEEL CHAIR
OVER MY
DAD’S HEAD!!
i love myself thats why she is lonely
you are bombs it doesnt change a thing i tell you relax the first day
of the rest of your life. i tell you burn thrones no question undress
yourself to this

a gas leak “upon my dead body” dont pretend about it you threw me
outside airsoft guns undress yourself

you are a little bombs i suspected you in my gun fight how do i sell.
south wind little bit of that new york city 20 trainwrecks it doesnt
change a thing

im on the clutch with my so-called “breathe it is 10pm the first hour

of the rest of your life” breathe it is on fire we dont question itself so-
called undress yourself

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wall paint ? who cares, use it for a car

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every time i read carpe diem
poems i do something i regret
cars pass outside . tuesday i rode my bike down mission to
gaylord street and took it west and looked at the sun

my favorite part of late summer is early autumn

yesterday i looked at a flower for 15 minutes

an airplane
jupiters in the south

my father is tarping a truck in ruth michigan and talking to me on

the phone

i feel pain for everyone who lives

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it was dark music
, it was dark music ” i sayd to you ( holding bagpipes
“ .it was dark ,
“ and i m selling the bagpipes ”you sayd.

“ medium hair brush”

i sayd
“.garage door swinging aluminum over white cars
garage dore swinging over white car s”

“medium hare brush i have one y”ou sayd

“ the boat oar using it like a violyn ” i sayd , “

im selling the garage”

“im selling the piano like a bote oar ” i told you ,and i really
told yo.u
“. medium hare brush”
“ my pelvis was a necktie
like a bote oar )y”ou sayd
“oh, , . .
i m selling the bagpipes like a bote oar

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I’M IN YOUR
HOUSE
LORD,
I’M GOING
TO FIGHT YOU
scarf weather is back thank god
son i wasnt born yesterday get out of my house we have to run into
town and buy a wicker lawn chair are u interested

and i dont smell the garage on purpose it just happens, i dont like
it either, u scared the fuck out of me last night thank god they have
wire frames in stock

the first time i saw the milky way galaxy i was standing in the gravel
part of my dads driveway, mars will double in brightness this month
according to jack horkheimer

it is early autumn, the sun is not up yet but the east sky is light blue

i dont care if i breathe

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for example you are my rain
for example “i do the opposite of what i suggest to others”
9-foot sunflowers and black pans

the sound of a motor at 7am

corn marketing,
i love the birdsong

and i no longer believe in truth

it’s 2009,
i’m not afraid of the dark now

my mother encourages me to eat friut salad

but i dont like canteloupe

:(

this is the rain . you are my rain

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night , this thing is wide

getting sodas with my hole family <3

heres the dawn

here

buckets of white paint and blue paint

share me

share me

share me

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lets dominate the airwaves
sailor we love you get that medicine. stolen sheet metal from a race
car, my chair and a pipe in the hook like sheet metal from a race car

sailor we love you

get that medicine

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i wake from my painful slumber of hell

take out my knife of hell

god help me im killing everyone

33
YOU HAVE HIT
MY VEHICLE
i asked my dad if the corn harvest is over

it is way over, my dad said

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i can’t tell u about the gospel
because i don’t know shit about it
jesus will save ur sorry ass

it rains,
i fuck your family to do
what i am beautiful at doing
it rains
i sit on the porch and sing

snowbank next to a windmill :

sugarbeet fields of eastern
michigan :
a chair-back made from 1-inch poles :
rates : a burn from a torch :
forced labor of
cow’s milk :
oh, fridge :
a bird sitting on white cardboard :

the poem as a means of destroying

the bounded category “poem”

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a vacuum cord we used
to make sine waves
in the driveway

rip this poem in half

i dont
care at all
i’ll just make another

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i don’t know
the
corn is all harvested now

my friends are going to get drunk and turn into

werewolves
on new years eve

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IT FEELS
FANTASTIC
TO GET
FUCKED BY
THE RAIN
“wow, u have a smock on” somebody says, but i dont

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i rented a movie and recorded over it with two hours of myself

on the video i am shouting compliments at my family

i burn my car on purpose

it is january

i greet myself at the beginning of a great career

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i’m eatting necterines that were
ripened in hell
nice

this is the most unholy fruit to be grown in hell

fuckin rock on

\m/ \m/

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THANK YOU
I AM GOING
UNDER THE
TRAIN
yes i’ve been training my son
basicly this spring he started down
a long path exploring the baseball arts
and he works hard
here im sad
congratulations justin
you’re new song is great
im crying.
recently i moved to a new home with my wife.
ive been with her since high school.
also this is the only picture i have of my dad

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to the librarians of america...
i know, there are thousands
u may find yourself dazzled as u read my poems

many other’s have

there is nothing quite like the creation of a work of art

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this poem was written by a sailor
and i am on the ocean while
writing this
this poem will be read on every boat in america.
my poetry soars over the sea like a gigantic bald eagle

actualy, i am in my boat now

its gigantic

when im dead
ten thousand sailors will read my poetry

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HELLO
FACEBOOK.
THIS IS LINAY
LOHAN
since you been gone! fucking love it
fucking wanna marry u
fuckin dance club when i get married to the
girl of my drems
fucking dance boy!
here im danceing haha
my lief is just getting better by the moment
when will my lief end?
i dont know
haha
fuck yea!!

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Would you murder someone to be Justin beiber’s Baby?

Would you cut someone and watch them bleed to death to be

with Jusin?

Would you get Ur Tubes Tied if Justin said he would never be

with U?? TRICK QUESTION NEVER SAY NEVER

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I’M MAKING
PASTA.
JESUS CHRIST
THIS ROCKS
we found a container of nightcrawler worms on a tree trunk
near a river

i carried them to a dirt area and set down the worms

you untangled them with a twig

i said u were nice to the worms

iron gym turns any doorway into a personal gym in minutes

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OK, PENGUINS
ALREADY
RULED
BUT THIS
IS AWESOME
chat poem with internet stranger

Stranger: hey

You: Party inside of a dead horse

Your conversational partner has disconnected.

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my ebay buyers rating is
through the roof
my natural singing range is an octave and a half
with lessons i coudl sing over two octaves
thats why im prioritizing voice training in the year to come

yes, i am familiar with the scent of over 500 plants

i can discern the age of your average tree by scent

my house contains treasures i have accumulated from

years of searching
i have decorations from every continent except antarctica

while perusing my home, u may be overcome

by the beauty of a given piece

my ebay buyers rating is through the roof

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MODERN ART
IS ONE OF
MY FAVORITE
KINDS
I AM A NATURE
POET AS I ONLY
MURDER IN
THE FOREST
i was ok in the sea

put me back

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somewhere in the bottom of the rain
the news said that a family got lost in a corn maze
and was still in there at night and
they called 911
to get out of the maze
the news said that most people finish the maze in 25
minutes but this
family was in there for 4 hours and
i will kis you sitting on the pier of the
shalow river and
i will kis you in your
cars back seat on the gravel turnaround in the
rain and i will even kis you
another time
pushed against a dead tree in the back of a graveyard

im sory i like you better than everything

i want to whisper into your smile
you make me need
to write
love poems
this is what i might whisper in the rain
come over and

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nap with me i want you
i sleep like a raccoon in you
i sleep in you
like i am a raccoon somewhere
do you ever want
to climb into a birch tree with me
somewhere
in the bottom of the rain i want you

i turn you with slow animals

i turn you in the
dark trees
i have you with me in the dark trees
i am tryig to put you somewhere else in the
dark trees too
i am like the giraffe of you
wow
i am kising 25 birds when i kis you

four hours of rain in the corn

i kis you and i dream that i am a raccoon

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you trip and u
fall and
instead of geting up you stay down and
i kis you on the ground
in a corn field
at night

in december michigan there wil be a snow bank

somewhere of u and me and
your warm
legs and i am in between kising u
sweet drems you are very beautiful
i will sing to
you justin bieber with my lips
on you and
my hands on you so
thank you i am far into the warm tunnels
of you
i will bring to
you my warm dark we are under a pine
tree and
it is mid night so
thank you i am deep into the rain of you

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HERE IS MY
ADDRESS:
MOSCOW.
when i have poems assigned for school i write them abotu you no
matter what the assignment is

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i rebranded my family

why not?

i love to build brands

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I WANT
CHOCOLATE
SAUCE ON FIRE
I AM
BEAUTIFUL
the quiet gun is my wife’s nickname
can i call u back in fifteen minutes?

i need to order a cake for my cousins baby shower

now where the hell is my mary wollstonecraft reader

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there are hand prints in my new cement driveway

mother fucking kids better check themselves

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there is no restriction of what
can happen in life i want to create
something beautiful
i feel like reading some poetry outside in the morning

i have a stick of bread in my hand, u see?

the air is cool on my hand

out of my mouth came a comment that totally offended gretchen

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today i died after an airborne 200-kilogram american black bear
smashed through my windshield and out the back window of
my SUV :)

today i was killed while heating up a lava lamp on my kitchen stove.

the lamp exploded and a shard pierced my heart :)

today i was killed after being struck in the face by an airborne fire
hydrant while walking :)

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WHAT ARE YOU
DOING JONAS
BROTHERS
The morning outside is beautiful

a poet tells us to look at our hands

Then we do it, its wonderful.
good bye for all my life.
thats a setence
i love to hear you talking
that is a sentence
as well,
if i fall down to die
then grass will be a beautiful surface

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I MAY GO INTO
ADVERTISING
BUT I DON’T
LIKE THE
COMMERCIAL
ASPECT
IS THIS HOW
YOU SPELL
THIS?
“ATREYU”
MY MOM SAID
IT COSTS
ABOUT $5-10
FOR THE
TRACTOR
PULL.
WE DON’T
HAVE TO GO
I THINK OF
YOU EVERY
TIME I SEE MY
COMPUTER
BACKGROUND
DOES “SOFT
LEMONADE”
MEAN
ANYTHING
BAD?
I AM EATING
PEAR PIE,
HAHA WEIRD
WEIRD INDEED
I WISH I OWNED
A GYM
TOMORROW
IS ANDY’S
BIRTHDAY
YEAH I KNOW,
I JUST WISHED
HIM A HAPPY
ONE
I THINK I’M IN
THE PERFECT
MOOD TO
UNDERSTAND
POETRY
YOU ARE THE
GREATEST
LOOKING AND
HUGGING
PERSON THAT
I KNOW
I SAW YOU GO
BY MY HOUSE
LAST NIGHT
YEAH,
I HONKED
FOR YOU
AMANDA HAS
OFFICIALLY
REMOVED ME
FROM HER TOP
FRIENDS
I THINK I MIGHT
GO INTO MY
ROOM AND
JUST BE IN
THERE FOR A
LITTLE BIT
I WOULD HAVE
POPCORN
WITH YOU
RIGHT NOW,
BUT I AM
OVER 100
MILES AWAY
YOU ARE SO
NICE AND
WHEN I HOLD
ONTO YOU I
FEEL THE BEST
FEELING EVER
WE BOTH
LIKE BURNING
CHILDREN
ON THE SIMS
CHRISTMAS
WITH THE
CRANKS.
COME WATCH
IT WITH ME
AS YOU CAN
SEE, I HAD
A NICE DAY
WE PROBABLY
PACKED OUR
LUNCHES AT
THE SAME TIME
THIS MORNING.
BYE
YUM SALAD
LIKE YOU,
I ALSO WANT
A HUG
IT WOUDL BE
COOL IF YOU
WERE ONLINE
MY COMPUTER
SAYS I NEED
TO UPDATE MY
SPY SWEEPER...
WHAT
THE HECK
AMANDA IS
KEEPING ME
UP TO WATCH
“DOGMA.”
LOOKS LIKE I
AM STAYING UP
A BIT LONGER
THAN I SAID
NICE. THE
PARK HAS A
WALKING PATH
I WILL KISS
YOU A MILLION
TIMES PLUS AS
MANY AS
YOU WANT
I SEE YOU
ADDED MY
FRIEND KIM
ON MYSPACE...
SHE’S
AWESOME
IT’S OKAY AS
LONG AS WE
GET TO HANG
OUT SATURDAY
NIGHT... I LOVE
THAT NIGHT
I AM STILL
WORKING
ON MY
WATERMELON
FROM
BREAKFAST
WHAT SHOULD
WE DO DURING
OUR LIFE?
I WANT TO
SLED WITH YOU
AND BE IN THE
SAME SLED
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welcome to my home
dont move anywhere inside of here

this is my coat room of owls

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IF IT’S DARK OUT
WHERE YOU ARE,
GO LOOK AT
THE SKY.
IF IT’S BRIGHT OUT
WHERE YOU ARE,
GO LOOK AT
THE SKY.
sleep with me until we are birds at
the end of the world
im crying with my face on the side of
a buffalo,
it rains on my mouth
there is nothing for me to say in the rain storm
it is just a rain storm that i am in.
the sad men of my country are
too much
america i am not
bored with my life
america
i am alone but i am not completly alone
i am on the internet.
when you are dead i think you wil miss
your problems
you will miss how everyone is
a separate person
you will miss how every person
every tree every body of water every
city every single thing
is diferent

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and has its own way
and its own personality.
go somewhere on a mountain,
anywhere on
the mountain your cat seems awesome.
this is my best october of my life
everything in
the world makes me hurt
die with me 60 year old man
die with me 40 year old man
i want to be dead in a tractor tire for a year.
there is
nothing left to wait for now
it is 6 in the morning and
i am calling you something bird related

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im jeff goldblum in jurassic park for u
i point out human beings’ exploitation of
the natural world
thats my main function
also im
arrogant and i like you

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it is 3 AM when i mis you crying about my poetry program
yes i treuly hat my MFA program
wah wah
cry my eyes out
i tryed to hug my cat and she ran awa
lol
im crying in the middle of the room on the floor

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your son attained the webelow level of boy scouts

cool

fuck your webelow son

145
in the absolutely dark sea i
have birds
in the absolutely dark sea i have birds
that land on me and
go inside me.
you are something softer than star filled night.
what can i do with your moon lighted and
bare knees ?
what is there now?
my mouth is
for you,
my permanently bird filld mouth is for you
( like an ocean
my birds
are toward the outside of me )
my flowers fall onto you
on your mouth
and sometimes you are in my
flowers and
sometimes i have flowers falling
on you and off you .
i am like various animals when i am with you

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i cant even tell which ones.
show me
quiet airplanes landing in you constantly.
be in me like my breath is .
i sing into your mouth pretending you are dead
and it sounds like you
are the ocean
i hold your mouth like a cup
it sounds like you are full of what the sky is full of

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COME
BOWLING.
I LOVE YOU
LIKE A LOVE
SONG
if a horse was a human being , thats me dude .

thats literally who i am .

im peeing inside a jewel case of a CD right now

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i am sorry you beautiful
photographer of birds
im ready to pour out the
dark and silly bookbag of the night
im ready
my wolves inside me have found your
instagram
and now i love you.
have u started to believe me that u
are beautiful,
that the wolves in you are
wolves in a beautiful person ?
come meet me inside of my internet cafe
if you cant say
anything nice about my blog
dont say
anything nice at all

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when i kiss u im 60 years old

its chill

60 is the new 50

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I WILL
LITERALLY
BAKE U THE
COBBLER OF
YOUR CHOICE
im the panda eating your bamboo in you

im eatting your bamboo

im eatting your bamboo

i want you in the bathroom of a train

153
50 CENT
LEGALLY
FORCED
TO CHANGE
HIS NAME DUE
TO INFLATION
i dont care if there r bats eating me

hehe

why woud i care

155
every single human is sad
haha
not necessarily this moment
but like
recurringly sad
haha
boost

156
i dont bathe but i am refreshed
when i drink blood from the
horse’s mouth
in the bathroom i put bats in my mouth endlessly . i put fruit and
blood on myself , luring additional bats

i am not ready to die in this church yet, but i will be ready soon

gigantic angel of the horse, you are beautiful

i come for like an hour because of the fucked up horse . i am coming

down from my beautiful moment with the horse

i am coming all the way down

i am not ready to die in this church yet, but i will be ready soon

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IF ANYONE
SHOWS US
THE CEILING,
WE SHOW
THEM SKY
im lost in a gigantic park
i want u to be lost with me

unfortunately i cant give u directions here

because im lost

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im rowing on ur sexual missippi river
im like
huck finn for u
im the sex version of huck finn
im like
mark twains sex toy

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At every moment the fact that you
are floating on a rock in space is
valid and important to consider
among your other concerns

dear reader . i love u

and im the only person on earth who loves u

so u better love me also

dear reader

im naked and dark and my ears are

like the ears of a panda

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do you remember my ears ?

i was talking to someone i know in rochester new york

and they said they love Degrassi

imagine a world in which all alcohol consumption

was replaced by people hangin out with dogs

a man goes on a month long bender playing with

dogs in his apartment

rebellious teens partying with dogs:

dude lets swing by the
animal shelter
and pick up
some dogs for the party

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“who” should be the relative pronoun for all animals, not just humans

Bob Ross Autographed Gun Rack

Bob Ross Tactical Shotgun & Case

Bob Ross Vertical Suplex Into Swinging Neckbreaker

someone held the door for me and

got mad i didnt thank them.
yeah i shoud’ve thanked them,
but if you’re not
giving unconditionally,
how much are you rly giving?

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dear reader, my dog cant get out of the macrowave

hahahahah

dear reader , if my dog doesnt get legal asistence

he could lose his house hahahahahha

i posted an owl city song on my tumblr

and it only got 2 notes

how am i suposed to help people if they

refuse to help themselvs ?

question about ‘land before time’: how is there narrative ?

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there was a story in my hometown of

a local farmer who got revenge
on another man
by putting a dead
cow in his driveway
during his child’s birthday party

10

the sun is gone but the undersides of the clouds are still pink

if you have a thousand birds in you they will find a way out

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imagine someone eating and screaming

like eating a full meal and screaming

constantly between mouthfuls

12

i can do things today that make other people

feel better than they did

i love that,i want to do that every day

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i want to become a beautiful sunfower 100 miles high.

i cant help it, i am beautiful to be like this

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i want to tape a vaccum cleaner
to the bumper of a car
and yell compliments to the driver

recently i said my dog is an “autograph hound”

and i couldnt stop laughing.

in the baltimore airport the couple next

to me plays a game
where they guess what
the next person to walk by will be
wearing

its awesome

i wish i was playing

14

the amount you can learn and grow thru failure

is more valuable than
success anyway

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you’re already yoloing, you asshole

it’s the human condition

realize youre true nature

grow a beard on you’re ass

16

the satchel on the dog says

“dont pet me, i’m working,”
but the dog
never said that

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“see if u can fit that banana in your dads ass”

could probably become
a common saying
like “how do you like them apples”

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the polar bear attempts to kill and

eat a walrus,
fails, then curls up to starve
to death on the ice.
on the dance floor i perform my new dance
“checking twitter in social situations”
im doing so many activitys lol, wow …
im hapy there’s
so many activitys :)
wow ! ! wow
im gonna pee in the cushions of my own futon

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mom
the stars r beautiful

mom

i love them stars

i want to put my sweatshirt hood up but

it’s already up

i want to write 666 in all caps

the wind blows the trees

mom

fuck everyone who has ever lived

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do u people have windmills?
do your local people have windmills

171
it is a beautiful time to be in the south
i masturbate here and there

172
JUST A
REMINDER
THAT U
WILL DIE
everybody i see hurting and i dont want them to hrurt
i want you to be ok
i dont know how to
stop you from
hurting but i will try to
do it
i wish i was better at it
i want to stand for what is right to me
i dont want to do anything that i think
is bad for humans
or others animals
or any one
i want to work harder than i have been
i want to be hugging you
i wish that i could take care
of you some
how
i dont want you to be cold or
alone you are beatuiful and deserve to feel good

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just be very aware what kinda person u wana be ok , and then be
that kinda person as much as u can . if u mess up , just get back
to it . i love the simple and beautiful trees . i love the simple and
wonderful rain . i am excited to be in the world

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Freeze my poop using colder poop
in the countryside where my dad lives
it is beautiful with windmills and stars

& i know we can help each other achieve for free

the fulfilment that corporations are trying to sell us

fuck yeah dude

justin bebier is my fucking dad

nothing is promised in the future

right now is the time to be with people

& fuck any poet who wouldnt tell their audience

“i love you” because its a cliche

if youre reading
this i love you

if you’re alive, i
love u

179
ORB OF THE SKY ..

WHAT R U ……….

COME DOWN

180
YELLOW ORB...

DO U DARE SOUSE ME WITH YOU’RE HOT LIGHT ??

I HAVE LET DOWN MY HOOD…

SPRAY & HOSE ME IF U MUST

181
I’M WHAT
HAPPENS
WHEN A
BABY GENIUS
GROWS UP
what would you say if you knew it
was your last communication with
anyone, forever?
i want to have a gigantic bird mask on my face
everywhere i go

183
having sex with u is almost as fun
as making pinewood derby cars
with my dad
are u the internet?
becaus i wana spend all day with u in my room
then finally go out to a public place
but still
only pay attention to u

184
My Hole Family Is Emo So Yes
Im Offended By Your Comment,
Definately Dont Expect To See Me
Back On Your Website Again
oh thank’s
my sons have made me a cake

thank’s yeah
i love peeing in ass hole’s

btw
grime’s is my mom

and im a yoga student whos ready to

hang dead in a tire-swing
surrounded by
10-year-olds
kicking my lifeless body

And i can balance my poop on end.

185
MY FRIEND
TOLD ME THEIR
GRANDMA
DIED AND I
ALMOST SAID
“DARK”
try showering with dead peoples
body parts instead of soap u wont
believe the difference

when i searched “baha men dubstep” on youtube i didnt mean to

say anything aloud, but i said “please” aloud

i don’t go IRL because i am scared that situations like in the SAW

movies will happen to me

my “Honk If Ur Canadian” bumper sticker was unexpectedly a huge

hit with geese

187
when you die, every selfie you ever took flashes before your eyes

if u don’t like the design of my blog, i will cut you completely out
of my life

in spain they love football so much they even call soccer football

when u instagram my dead body, use walden but tag it #nofilter

188
force youself to read so much poetry u start to hate almost all of it
u woudn’t inflict it on anyone
ahhhhhh
hah
now u ready to write some poetry
there is no morning sky anywhere
the blue of the police officers uniform is blue
but it is not like the blue of the sky.
it is not like it is the inside of the sky looking at the rest
of the sky,
or anything like
the gigantic water
or the feather of a bird from somewhere
that has colorful birds
the blue on
the police officers uniform is
not alive
it does not breathe
or have tears
it doesn’t shake.
there is no laughter
in the color
there is no morning sky anywhere which
looks this color of blue
it is like the blue color of
something that has been dead
it is like
when you took all of the blood out of the animal

190
and their body is hanging in the room
and the room is silent the
blue is like the
emptiness of the floor in the room
where the sound is empty
and the blood is empty
and everything is hollow in the silent
room where the animal
is dead
and theres no birds in here
theres no birds
at all

191
every comparison between
a nonhuman animal and you
seems accurate
when im doing anything with you i think
“i want to
do this with you until the end of the
year of the horse”
you are more amazing
then a horse
you seem like rain passing through
lower clouds
you seem like you are a toy bird
full of live birds
you seem like in the universe
there is nothing softer
than you
i like you so much i
view your snaps for the whole 10 seconds.
with you the silence of the moon is not like
usual silence
it is more long
it is like there are parts of you so

192
quiet i could
not even put my ear on them
i can only whisper
on to you,
you are barely like rain but you are
close enough that i have to say it.
i dont know the name of your bodys
language
but what it says to me is more
compelling than the sun
there is nothing more compelling than the sun
but your body is more compelling to me
than the sun
i think the way you touched me
is like a koala,
the air at the top of the night.
small bears walking on corn stalks.
you
gentle bear,
how i like you now
is impossible for me to shut up about.
go in the night with me
go with me in there
give me something small from the inside of the night

193
air mail my mom a purse full
of meg ryan’s shit
the best way to win a race is to love
how it feels
to be running

194
kiss my dad at a shinedown concert
pet my dad’s poop. spank my poop. whip my poop on the web. call
my dad’s landline phone with google voice to have phone sex with
my dad. whip my poop when i’m bent over my dad’s riding mower.
whip my poop at me when i’m skateboarding. buy my dad’s poop
on gumroad. buy my dad skullcandy head phones on ebay. give
my dad a pac-sun gift card. whip my dad’s poop with a guitar string.
burn my dick pic on a cd-r. stick an ethernet cord in my dads poop.
shoot dried poop at my dad. whip a turd at my dad’s plasma tv. scan
my dad’s poop at a co-op. air mail my dad a bean. hit my dad’s pac-
sun gift card with a sandwich bag of poop

195
I’m Miley’s Dad, You Asshole
im tryin to think if theres anyone who would
care that im listening to owl city

so i can text them and say

“im listening to owl city”

im jumping on a cake in
the bath tub !!!

ooh!!!
yes !!! and my garage floor looks freaking fantastic!!

when i listen to owl city i feel

more ready to accept my death

196
WELL WELL WELL …
LOOK WHAT WE HAVE HEAR …

NATURE POETRY ABOUT WORM’S AND

AQUATIC BIRDS ? ?

HOW DARE U BRING THIS IN MY HOME

197
i seem to enjoy tree’s..... can i
get fucked?
i’m inside a Tree ………
waitting for a white owl 2 alight
on my
petite genital’s..

the wind Blow’s …..

This is how i fell in lov with lief

198
Thank’s, My Son Cant Poop
sunrise on these pittsburgh bridge’s

im ready to have cans of black beans

thrown at my arms & face

im ready to hav bean cans

serously whipped at me

\m/

im gona pee in my moms tank of her toilet so

when she flushes the water is still yellow

199
if ur infant doesn’t have a personal
brand they simply don’t exist to me
how do u expect an infant to hold there own in a competitive
prescool environment without a social media presence to bolster
there personal brand ?

it simply dosent happen

200
wHAT A DAY !!!!!!
wHAT A AMAZING DAY
TO b HUMAN
oH
MY GOD !!!!!
run’s off Onto the hills And meadow’s ...
Never 2 be seen againe..

201
I NEVER
EAT BREAD.
THE LORD’S
PRAYER IS
WORTHLESS
FOR ME
i decided to bring my poop
to a restaurant
im in hardees

and i can smell my poop

203
“writers should...”
“good poetry is...”
all
these
pointless
rules
tht make writing
no
fun /
i suggest
just
make
things
u
love, the end

204
to live a human life is to create
an artwork in the most exciting
medium available to us
put an inch thick of
poop on my track bike’s disc brake

put vegan lunch-meat in my dad’s cd-rw drive

of his computer

carry my poop
around
with u

205
siting under a tree
i got shit on by a bird

i didnt move tho

patience

10 minutes later i got

shit on by another bird

206
GOD MUST
HAVE SPENT
A LITTLE MORE
$$$ ON YOU
When It Is Sunny Enjoy The Su n,
When It Is Rainy Enjoy The Rain,
This Is Our Life You Can Never
Redo Your Life
the beauiful world..
i can hardly stand to
be hit by ray’s of sun
without retireing to the
bathroom a while,
and haveing my way with myself

208
I Killed A Man Using The Emotional
Content Of A Poem
this is why im hot
i dont gotta write

i could sell a mill

posting nothing on my site

209
When I’m Moving My Birds There
Can Be Many Birds Who Get Loose
And Surround Me, Then I Am In
A Cloud Of Birds
dang i hate turtle neck’s they have put my son
out of business, my son makes giraffe neck’s

& i cant believe owl city is selling an actual

t-shirt made of human tongues

i overheard someone say “if i had my way,

life would be one long owl city concert”

i was like Hell Yeah Woman

I Am A Bird

& i know many Birds btw,

all of whom i love.

i want my obituary to say “pecked to death by

birds” and i dont want it to be lying. i want to earn it

210
sometimes when im walking home i will arrive
at my house but i dont feel ready to go in

so i keep walking around the block until i’m ready to

go in. this is how i know im a true artist and romantic

brb
smoking like 5 hookahs while driving

211
attention people who dont think you are
doing enough to help others

you are beautiful for having that fear

you are my kind of person

and
i love you

212
if im successful on earth then my
life will seem like a hug that took 80
years to give
a hug
is the perfect poem

and i’m terrified of getting attacked by alligators

at the dance i think about how suits and

uniforms are the external embodiment of the

emotional deadness beaten into men by

patriarchal socialization

i think about how boys are raised

to be weapons

and why does it cost so much to be alive ?

i fucked shrek and blew him for $190

and after all this i still support

fundraising efforts to give iphone 5’s to wild animals

213
OUR LIFE IS SO WEIRD I’M SORRY
please

recognize your death is coming and cultivate

love toward everyone you can

214
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most of the material in this book was collected from my past books & internet output.
some lines in section 03 were originally written by my long-time friend jessica, included
with permission. a few other lines throughout the book were pulled from various internet
sources i can’t remember

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