As Knowledge Kills Beauty on iTunes

That's right, folks! Finally, As Knowledge Kills Beauty is finally on iTunes. I'm excited, and you should be, too. For your copy, you can click the link below:



It's an excellent CD. I know because my mother told me so. Buy it!

Ottava Rima for IHOP Waitresses

Ottava Rima for IHOP Waitresses
The first was closely trimmed, aloof, and meek.
A second smoked, on break, outside the door.
The third had only worked there yet a week,
and swept the scrambled eggs up from the floor.
The fourth: an actress waning from her peak,
whose lost successes made her seem unsure.
And from the kitchen he would shout their names,
their lives the only power he retained.

6/1/08

The ringing in my ears is a choir of silence.
I am immutable here,
preserved by the solitude
like the grazing animals frozen in layers of
the earth's wisest rock.
I imbibe the night with consciousness and calculation,
but leave no footprint on its soft frame
at which it might look back to remember me.
This corner is a spilled bag of marbles,
and I watch, a hapless child,
as each person spreads across the carpet,
or is lost into the vent.