Description: This is a pretty bad poem that I wrote trying to be deep and whatnot. The last line of it is okay, but the rest is pretty bad, just trying to get things to rhyme. What scares me is that I wrote this one kind of recently. Rating: Not so great. Carpe Diem A …
Barrier
Description: I wrote this one a long time ago because I was going out with a girl who didn’t make any sort of an effort at all, and I felt like I was doing all the work. So, I’ll warn you, this is a little high-schooly, but some parts are decent. Some parts are so …
Broken
Description: I wrote this poem my freshman year in college. I had this idea for a recurring line saying “me, alone in an empty black room,” and I basically wrote the poem from there. It’s sort of my version of The Raven by Poe, but with my own sort of depravity added in. I actually …
Chips and Dips
I was watching World’s Scariest Police Chases Volume 4 the other day, and this popped in my head. Final Draft
Protest This!
I remember hearing reports during the War in Iraq of people getting into riots at peace protests and that drove me absolutely nuts. So here’s my absurdist, comic reply to all that. Final Draft
Forget What I’ve Said
Random thoughts. Final Draft Click here to listen to the audio performance from Sushi 2005 at Calvin College starring Simon Kittok.
Funny How it all Works Out
An idea I had related to some things going on in my real life. Final Draft
Act Without Words III
Inspired by Samuel Beckett’s plays (he wrote I and II). I figured I’d modernize it and tone down the whole desolation thing that Beckett loves. Final Draft
The Worst Day of Morgan’s Life
A literal reinactment of the worst day of my life. Final Draft
The Training of an Armed Guard for the Escort of George Bush to the Realm of the Good Guys
Wanted to write something mocking about Bush, which became suddenly even more mocking when we started war with Iraq. Final Draft