Although false, this is real. Although real, this is untrue.

Nothing is what it seems.
Went to sleep in a hazy, unfamiliar place, woke up in a temple.
Went to work on something I believed in, quit because it opposed my beliefs.
Went to the mountain because I was suffocating, came back home to get a breath
[...]

The Difference Between Buddhism and Drugs is the Headache

I am tired of the internet.
I am tired of watching people on the street.
I am tired of television and movies.
I am tired of LSD, DXM, THC, DMT, etc.
I am tired of tests.
I am tired of talking.
I am tired of not being heard.
I am tired of needing money.
I am tired of not being able to concentrate.
I [...]

Pleasant Hallucinations

These are the things I think of fondly:
The growing vibrations from my stomach
Sunny days and fractal sight
Treated hemp rope and oxhorn pincers
Painless walks and silent morning glories
Days which go by fast and cheap
which I almost cannot remember
for lack of thought and somatic strain
Someone, anyone’s clever wit accompanying
soft hands to take my mind off anger
The tricks [...]

Untitled list poem (I Met A Little Girl One Night at a Party)

This room with its yellow walls
Your face with its callow eyes
This screen with its taunting glare
Tomorrow’s routine, tomorrow’s surprise
 
A chessboard drunken strewn about
Consequence, our patron cruel and fair
Language, disease in vitro lay
Time dilates, an idle snare
 
My friends and your friends who don’t get along
My daily phone call to my dad
Your daily abuse and friendly epithet
You [...]

Collecting things for fear of losing my lover

The box I stole for you at the art store to hold
The quartz stones I had blessed by a Wiccan High Priestess for whom I picked
The mugwart that grows near my house where you gave me
The amethyst stone I used to reassure me when
The fight we had made me wish I’d never done
The stupid shit [...]