I'm an artist first and foremost and writing is what I do. Pretty well if I do say so myself lol. I'm looking for new ways to challenge myself and produce the best work I possibly can. I'm always interested in what other artists bring to the table, so feel free to drop a line.

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06/30/10

Dreams

12/19/09

Viva La Abstrakt

07/01/09

Kool Music: Madcon

05/05/09

Kool Music: Lykke Li and Mateo

05/03/09

Photography? Songs? And a Neverending Story.

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  The Fine Print

  So I'm a sarcastic ass. Your point? I can be quite selfish Antagonizingly rude Love you for five seconds Then act like your face is brand new I never return your calls Until like two days after I missed them See your texts Forget to reply Then simply say, ...

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  Coping

  Twenty years have passed And I stand here On the brink of sorrow. Dust lingers in sensuous traces Floorboards lost to the past Those that remain defiled by time In faded graffiti, grit and grime Crumbling walls letting in sunlight Different From the warmt...

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  Fear

  Nonverbally I'm spilling forth all you need to know Gripping your shoulders Screaming in your face Flinging leaden revelations Hoping they won't crush you. You look up. My jaw softens My eyes glow bright My lips form a smile Cause nothing's wrong.... Right?

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  Love And Power (1st Draft)

  Hendrix once said When Love overcomes Power The world will know peace Yet when I take a look around me Love is Power's ammunition Ballistically shattering That which is addicted Conflicted and constricted By fuzzy sweet talk Uplifted Sensual words...

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  The Mortal's Star

  Distant jewel Gleaming in the dead of night If I could I'd take a rocket Or even a giant kite Float up to you And wrap you in my arms Precious treasure to call mine Do all to protect you from harm But alas Your heart remains Fluttering on glass wings Set...

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  The Ever Elusive Question Mark

  Empty words with an open-ended punctuation Don't make it a good question So tell me why You steady averting your eyes From the elephant in the room Why does the truth always equate to Some impending doom True It may not come out easy Nor go down smoothly Bu...

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  Shadow Vision

  If I could snap a picture of your gray matter.... And make every one of your nerve cells visible... Two of them would be fired up at any given time It's true. You lack the discipline to apply yourself Beyond what's right in front you You claim you know the present ...

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  Friendship Junkie

  Why am I so drawn to your company To the point of sacrificing all of me Trading self-worth and common sense For the intoxication of your laughter The fix of your mischief The high of your conversation Never mind that we have nothing in common Forget that you're a...

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  Stagewriting

  False warmth spreads through you One who searches for forgiveness Through expression Trading real emotion for greed Your public need to be Liked, loved, worshipped Envied, hated, attacked Because that's what it's about Isn't it? Mechanical words Full of cli...

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  Dreamcatcher

  I dream of the day when My whispers Become shouts When six degrees Are all you need In order to find out What I'm about I dream of legends In slumber May I one day be like them Immortalized And ostracized For the genius that lies within I dream...

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  Morbid: A Poetic Monologue

  I'm walking on air.... Never felt so alone Oxygen is lacking Each step more taxing Than the last But what else can I do Longing for the world I once knew Is futile The laughter and smiles Are gone The calm of your company Deceased And I'm now left to f...

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  The Dilemma of Mr. Cheatham

  Truth is I'm addicted And I gotta hide it from you Wanna scream till I'm blue That we're through But then What will happen? Will the thrill be gone Pleasure subsided No matter how deep I ride in Leaving a taste like ash on my tongue Will me and her also be ...

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  Eclectic Pause

  It's time for a break Pulling out the playlist Another musical mind rape Of boring simple thought Ripping open those virgin notions With raw culture shock Lock and load Blasting holes In your membrane with Hard rock Screaming pain and addiction Thi...

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  Thing Is....

  I like you. Want you in the worst way And though I cant have you now In this present condition We cannot stay And yet I know we can't do much with this But my hearts telling me that with you This is it The one thing I'm missing The one thing I need Who c...

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  Lover Not A Fighter

  We keep fighting I keep lying You keep crying Then it starts all over again We used to mesh so flawless So when Did I lose you Reception's fucked up You ain't tuning into me How can I get you to see That I'm a lover not a fighter Just wanna be layed u...

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  Concrete Portrait.

  Click! Clack! BANG! Death has been painted yet again One moment you were breathing Now you're dead You had so much to do Left so much unsaid But none of that matters Cause Now You're Dead. Did you make a difference in the world? Leave ...

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  Tragic Verses

  She was Tragedy Spitting black flames Of raw crack Tearing the armor Of the closed mind With complex vernacular So spectacular Verbal resuscitation While others were stuck on Rhythmic masturbation She found the truth Magnifying it times a million Scream...

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  Untitled #1

  We're having a love affair That's going nowhere Passion realized Hearts synchronized Minds hypnotized You are all I desire I'm the fuel to your fire Yet how can that be? When we have not kissed Nor touched Lain eyes only on digital images of us Two fools ...

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  Paper Strings

  Paper strings keep pouring out of my pocket No matter what I do I can't seem to stop it I grab and reach But my hands are sliced open and I bleed I stare in wonder to see I'm filled not with blood But nickels, quarters, pennies, and dimes The aroma of dirty metal f...

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  Shackled Soul

  I was born an outcast Black sheep ostracized Suffering from abuse Verbalized I walked living a delusion Avoiding any true conclusion To the truth I already knew But how could I share it with any of you? I pretended to be someone else Putting the real...

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  Pyro

  Light me up. No smoke signals for me I lust to burn bright and free Can you see? The way the embers of my soul Glow for the temptation The adventure The risque The sting of scalded skin Is a chance I'm willing to take So I may live and love on the...

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  First Love.

  Her name was Melody Lover of symphonies Abstrakt expression A master of octaves Whispering complex notes Into the minds and souls Of her admirers Speaking in lyric Laughing in rhythm Dancing in the arms of Solo creativity Playing the keys of th...

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  A Nameless Poetic

  Take your first impression and shove it. I exist miles above it Floating on clouds Living on my own flow Doing as I please Seeing what I choose And being what you fear But why? You'd ostracize me and my Eccentricites For more traditional beliefs Calling m...

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  Peripheral Vision

  There are those who stay on my mind everyday Some that I see and just wish they could always stay Others I despise and just wish they'd go away People I love People I like People I ignore People I spite Nonetheless they are included in the course of my day But ...

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  Two-Faced Individual

  This isn't a battlefield This is reality No glory to be had Stop starting wars when you're mad And listen Take a sec and breathe in Caught up in your aggression Spitting words that have no meaning You're pot of bullshit is just steaming As you keep t...

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  That SadomasochisticRarelysimplisticScaldinglyacidic Thing

  It's that SadomasochisticRarelysimplisticScaldinglyacidic Thing You do to me That I feel for you What we hate cause the more it hurts The more it stands true What are we two fools To tie each other's hands Beating each other down Not giving a damn All the whi...

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  The Torture Chamber

  Here I am again. Sitting on the edge. Rocking back and forth. Wanting to break free. And yet wanting it to trap me. Drown me. Kill me. Do I? Or is just easier to accept The smoke and mirrors I've erected From the dozens of poisons I've selected Slow t...

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  World Wanderer

  All I want in life is To be conscious Of the world I live in The black and the white The gray in between The untapped beauty The ugly truths unseen Give me adventure and wonder Diverse realms of culture So that I may think eclectic And talk eccentric Chas...

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  The Independents

  We are dreamers Walking on a soiled canvas Full of mainstream pollution And diluted delusions Fighting the power-hungry Money-filthy Soul-empty Asswipes. That always seem to make it to the top Hoping they can kill us with one shot But no! We are indie F...

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  Is This 911?

  Help! My brainwaves are flatlining Now my mood is cosigning To a bout of drab emotion That's gumming up my locomotion I'm in need of electrical stimuli Shock me till my wires start to fry Open up my mental schematics And you will see the cause of this shutdo...

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  Dream Girl

  She is mine. Love reincarnated Winged angel Breathing a sense of agony into me But how pleasant this yearning is She is the object of my mind An ethereal ever present being That loves me for me. She is funny Her jokes make me think Then they make me laug...

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  You.

  You. Walking around wit ya head up ya ass. You. Comparing me to who you were in the past. You. Trying to tear down my self esteem. You. Too obsessed with control to let me live freely. Thing is what exactly does my life have to do with yours? I'm not a d...

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  All I Need

  I love you. There's no doubt about that From the moment I laid eyes on you I knew it was a fact. Within you I saw something special And I knew you were unique My heart already realized you were all I'd ever need So when you told me about the tumors in your chest...

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  Him, The Disease

  This world is full of heavy stuff Things like War on Terrorism and the Great Recession Assisted suicide and chronic depression Starvation and hurricanes and abandonment Racism and abortion and fatal ailments I would know. I was born on 9/11. My mot...

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  Rebel's Blood

  They tried to force me to stay in line Do what I was told Stay true to the common road As they preached how it’s the only way I’ll reach my Gleaming destination And yet With every step I took on their path Created from their own temptations To keep me do...

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  Solitude (Working Title)

  I have a major problem. My pen hand’s run out of ink Right side of my brain is on strike I can’t think I’ve got no words of wisdom No rhythmic insight And in my frustration I keep taking my knife Running it along my mental wrists Yet the words are...

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  Chess Pieces on a Checkerboard

  We Don’t Fit. That ain’t no bullshit. You know it, I know it Our faces show it Yet we keep playing these games Of Phone tag Hide and go skeet Kiss around your rosie Pushing buttons All for nothing Just for the simple fact that I’m hooked on ...

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  X-Factors (Working Title)

  So I’m staring at the love letter you sent me Or rather I wish that’s what I was reading Instead I’m stuck with a slice of hot hatred Singeing my fingers But I hold on anyway Hoping this feeling will burn away Though I try to ignore it, it remains all too tru...

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  A Life In A Second #1

  Nobody heard him. His name was David But Ghost was his alias. Quiet and shy Always kind and never one to lie He stood out like a sore thumb So they made him the butt of every joke Oh how their jeers choked The self-esteem right out of his soul So when he w...

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  Weathered Armor (working title)

  **This is what happens when I wake up at 430 in the morning...lol I wake up every morning In this skin. Soft to the touch This caramel barrier is stronger than me See As I trace the battle scars I remember Every cut, scrape, and stab Ever...