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- What I Learned After Begging My Mother For Extra Allowance Money So I Could Buy a Clock Radio
- I am the Tornado
- My Favorite Music of 2017
- The Belly That is Always There
- My Near-Death Experience
- There Are Some Remedies Worse Than the Disease
- This Will Destroy You
- Feels Like Fire, Isn’t Fire
- (no title)
- Protected: I Am Out of Goodwill Puns, Here’s an Entry About Work
- Fall Work, Ashcan, 5k, and Sandra Bland
- 145
- Willis Earl Beal’s Circular Victory
- For Benji, Forever Ago
- He Likes Sunbathing
- Dance
- Anyone Other Than Me
- Men, Keep Your Shirts On
- (no title)
- More Hand Gestures for Driving
- It’s Going to Be OK
- Protected: The Will is Online
- Let’s Talk About My Weight Fluctuation
- Union Canal, 6/25/17
- The Dam at Otter Creek
- Our Dewey Walk
- A Quick Word
- Protected: The Will is Good But Now Different
- Toddler Files, #4419
- (no title)
- Eternal Life
- On Anti-Fascism, Veganism, Church-Going
- You Aint Free
- Wild Harrisburg
- Toddler Files #468
- (no title)
- (no title)
- Days: Fifteen Years Sober
- Days of Everything
- (no title)
- Days of Something
- (no title)
- Days of Nothing
- This is the way I find them
- Observations From a Made-Up Climb in the Himalaya
- Valentine’s Dog Dagurreotype
- I Know the Place
- (no title)
- It is possible to grow up and still let the juice run down your chin.
- It’s Time to Start Thinking About It
- If My Feet Were Spears
- Have Yourself a Melancholy Christmas
- And to think I spent twenty years thinking art films and shoegaze rock were the meaning of life.
- Sea of Ice
- Harrisburg, December
- You Vanish
- My Favorite Music of 2016
- Throwing Copper, Tenty-Went, H-Burg Gem, Ashcan Love Puck
- In Gratitude
- Favorites, 2016
- Sounds Like a Train. Not a Train.
- Eating Apples in a Blanket Fort
- The Morning After
- Be a Bright Blue
- We’re Cutting the Cord
- You Don’t Like Winter
- Why I’m Vegan
- Badass Harrisburg, Media vs. Trump, Eraser, Alexander Supertramp
- Baltimore, 1998
- Why We All Need the Cubs to Lose the World Series
- (no title)
- Things Sweep You Up
- (no title)
- First Date
- Attendance
- I Loved Smoking Cigarettes
- Howard Bryant for President (of MLB)
- The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
- The One About the Cup, and the Runnething Over
- President of What?
- Gravity Works
- No Greater Purpose
- Everything Is the Same Everywhere
- Some Things I Like
- Sun Up
- The Moon is Down
- Origin Story, or: Where I Started
- Can It Be True? I’m Getting Rid of My DVDs.
- In Flemington
- Thirteen Years Sober, Plus a Ton of Love
- I Am Henceforth No Longer Paying Attention to Professional Football*
- I’m All-In For a Trump Nomination
- Jeremy, Where Have You Gone?
- Let’s Slow Dance in the Living Room Tonight After Dinner, Honey
- Protected: The Will is Good and Great
- You Aint Free
- Our Own Cause and Effect
- (no title)
- The Power that Drives the Universe
- The Floating World
- Batmen
- My Favorite Music of 2015
- Protected: The Will Remains Good
- Something About Something I Just Read
- Amber, You Died
- For Who?
- She Drank
- Protected: The Will, It Is Good
- The Theme Was Hotels, the Theme Was the Absence of Worry
- Just ‘Cause You Feel It
- My Father, the Green Boy
- Everything That Was Broken
- Jamboree
- Protected: Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
- where the light gets in
- You’re Not Connected
- How You Can Tell You Are Being Controlled
- My Life in the Church of Nobody
- Visiting Ado
- Some Stuff I Want
- I’m Only Giving the NFL Two More Years
- Dead People
- Every Direction is North
- Karla
- Summer’s Elbow
- Chaos in Capitol Heights
- These Secrets Are Being Recorded
- Spoiler Alert
- The Past is a Melted Glacier
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- Why I Haven’t Eaten Meat in a Month
- Patterns Appearing
- Awake Atop Awake
- We’re the Sexiest of All Primates!
- Scenes From My Sojourn
- Something About Airplanes
- A Comprehensive List of Everything I Hate More Than Winter
- Dance
- Big Spring
- They Move on Shafts of Ever-Lasting Light
- The Oatmeal Version of a Moist Harry Potter
- My Favorite Music of 2014
- A Letter to a Future Version of My Girlfriend’s Son
- Winter Songs, #4
- On Nerves
- Last-Minute Christmas Gifts You Could Get Me That Would (probably) Not Enrage Me
- Snow Angels in the High Grass
- Winter Song #3
- Penn’s Landing, Philadelphia, 11/20/14
- It’s Still Like a Secret
- Winter Song #2
- Stop Harshing My Groove
- Offering
- Winter Songs #1
- I am Afraid of Food
- Orbit
- I’m Not Me
- My Estuary
- Sack Races Can Blank My Blank
- Catching One
- This Is What Is Invisible
- Some nicknames I wouldn’t mind being known as:
- Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
- Funeral Procession on the Banks of the Yangtze
- Love and Forgetting
- Sideland Five
- Juggler, Fairmount Park
- Sideland Four
- The Foxes
- Philly Journal, 7/24/14
- Sideland 3
- Sideland: Two
- Philly Journal, 7/15/14
- Sideland
- The Lock Just Keeps Spinning
- Kingdom of Rust
- Robin’s Egg Blue
- Drawing E.T. at the Kitchen Table
- Philly Journal, 6/4/14
- Spring Morning at the Philadelphia Amtrak Station
- Fizzy Waterfalls & the Haircut Bigots
- The Foxes
- the opposite of loneliness
- Where Did You Go, Where Have You Been?
- Some video of a bike ride from Pennsport to Center City
- The Scent of Bitter Almonds, and etc, etc.
- Do Not Enter
- City Solstice
- Speed Dial
- Sports!
- When Time Glides Up Next To You
- So Long, Lonesome
- Eleventh Sobriety Anniversary
- Protected: Philly Journal, 3/27/14
- First Spring Morning
- We Forgot All The Names, the Names We Used to Know
- Everything All At Once
- The Soundtrack of My Skinny Jeans
- JEEPERS
- Philly Journal, 3/9/14
- Someday You Won’t Feel Anything At All About Anything
- What I Think About Myself
- In a Box of Trash on the Side of the Road
- Remembering the Hotel Stay
- Selfie of the Year
- You Can’t Buy Me Happiness, but You Can Buy Me Fraggle Rock
- Let’s laugh at the clock on the wall.
- Hoffman Film Fest, Day Six
- Hoffman Film Fest, Day Five
- Hoffman Film Fest, Day Four
- It rained on top of snow on top of snow. Winter’s spindly elbow. Everything slows.
- Hoffman Film Fest, Day Three
- Hoffman Film Fest, Day Two
- Hoffman Film Fest, Day One
- Philip Seymour Hoffman was important to me.
- Dead Folks in Old Photographs
- Wherein I attempt to read you a poem, but am interrupted by Time, Death, the Cosmos, and Wailing Guitars
- Who Needs You to Shovel
- 37 of the Worst Oatmeal Beers
- I’m a Kind of Portion, I Guess
- I Wear My Heartburn at Night
- Not Here, Not Now
- Well Up In the Blessings
- Philly Journal, 1/9/14
- Polar Vortex, Schmolar Schmortex
- Philly Journal, 1/6/14
- The Light From Everywhere
- Some Things I Like
- Philly Journal, 12/31/13
- Philly Journal, 12/29/13
- My Favorite Music of 2013
- Philly Journal, 12/5/13
- That Old One About the Tree
- Philly Journal, 11/26/13
- Philly Journal, 11/19/14
- Philly Journal, 11/18/13
- Philly Journal, 11/14/13
- Philly Journal, 11/12/13
- Application to be my girlfriend
- Philly Journal, 11/6/13
- Soon, Again
- I don’t understand why you’re angry in November.
- Philly Journal, 11/3/13
- Philly Journal, 11/2/13
- Some day no longer will you doubt me
- Lady
- Behemoth
- Young Blood
- Birthday Greetings, 1910
- Wants
- The Love Letter I Got Today
- Pictures of Strangers on the Plaza Area of Philadelphia’s Historic Waterworks
- I Almost Died Once
- The Moon is a Mountain
- Self-Portraits in Cities
- It’s My Thought That Counts
- Protected: The Siren’s Eye
- All This Extraness
- Get Out of the Kitchen
- I Never Knew Soap Made You Taller
- Pennsylvania’s Beginnings
- Night
- The Echo of an Axe
- Hot Dog Soup
- Even
- Near
- Underneath Philadelphia
- Umps, Bananas, Walruses, Oh My!
- I’ve Spent My Whole Life in a Dream, But I Don’t Give Two Shits
- My 100 Favorite Songs of All-Time
- Longwood Gardens, 4/19
- My Favorite Song of All-Time
- My Second Favorite Song of All-Time
- The Rip
- Open When I Get There (Tenth Sobriety Anniversary entry, part two)
- Open When I Get There (Tenth Sobriety Anniversary Entry, part one)
- More Camden video, with apologies to my dad!
- (no title)
- My Third Favorite Song of All-Time
- Self-Portraits in Cities
- My Fourth Favorite Song of All-Time
- (no title)
- My 5th Favorite Song of All-Time
- Traveler
- And the blood rushes
- Only Air is Perfect
- My 6th Favorite Song of All-Time
- The Woods Behind My Mother’s House
- My 7th Favorite Song of All-Time
- Let’s Extinguish the Fire Without Water
- My 8th Favorite Song of All-Time
- Liar, Liar
- My 9th Favorite Song of All-Time
- Woodbury, New Jersey
- My 10th Favorite Song of All-Time
- Washington and Lafayette
- My 11th Favorite Song of All-Time
- My 12th Favorite Song of All-Time
- There Aint Gonna Be Any Middle Anymore!
- My 13th Favorite Song of All-Time
- Why don’t you get mail from me?
- My 14th Favorite Song of All-Time
- Past and Present
- My 15th Favorite Song of All-Time
- Snow Angels in the High Grass
- My 16th Favorite Song of All-Time
- How It Doesn’t Happen
- My 17th Favorite Song of All-Time
- (no title)
- My 18th Favorite Song of All Time
- Camden
- My 19th Favorite Song of All-Time
- I Am Not Great
- My Favorite Music of 2012
- The First Snow
- The Gods in Oranges
- My 20th Favorite Song of All-Time
- Hydrologic Cycle
- Everything’s Gonna Be Undone, part 2
- Everything’s Gonna Be Undone
- My 21st Favorite Song of All-Time
- My 22nd Favorite Song of All-Time
- Eleanor Keeps Running Around
- My 23rd Favorite Song of All-Time
- Jovian Space
- Great song titles by the band Stars
- My 24th Favorite Song of All-Time
- Jeremy, Where Have You Gone?
- Overcast on Top of Overcast
- Philly Journal, 10/30
- Flemington, Again
- My 25th Favorite Song of All-Time
- In Flemington
- My 26th Favorite Song of All-Time
- My 27th Favorite Song of All-Time
- My 28th Favorite Song of All-Time
- My 29th Favorite Song of All-Time
- My 30th Favorite Song of All-Time
- My 31st Favorite Song of All-Time
- My 32nd Favorite Song of All-Time
- My 33rd Favorite Song of All-Time
- Making Up Words
- My 34th Favorite Song of All-Time
- My 35th Favorite Song of All-Time
- Lists
- My 36th Favorite Song of All-Time
- Mom’s Jail Cell #2
- Mom’s Jail Cell
- My 37th Favorite Song of All-Time
- My 38th Favorite Song of All-Time
Notes From the Fire 