Chris Cortese - Writings

1. Bottles
2. Questions
3. Difference
4. Talking to Colorful People
5. Last Breath
6. Traffic
7. Canadian Whiskey
8. Radar Detector
9. Breaking Squirrels
10. Concise Comment on the Educational Process
11. Tears
12. 21
13. Earth Girls
14. Bird
15. Party
16. Wet Inspiration
17. Safe Cooking
18. In Hiding
19. Blackout
20. Drinking
21. the Devil
22. Mexican Beauty
23. Spill
24. Driving in a hotel room in Chicago
25. Mara
26. Any Change
27. Indecision
28. What to call a poem about the loss of a friend?
29. Confrontation
30. Time Management
31. Conclusion
32. Desert Daydream
33. Near Death

Any Change

these words
from a sick heart
and right now
that seems to be
enough.
I would kill
to make something
happen,
and they would kill
me
for this.
infinity is hard
to conceptualize
but most people don't
even recognize the finite nature
of life.
I don't mean pretty offspring
I don't mean ugly resumes
I don't mean barbed-wire politics
calendars
expectations

shake something.

I let you go about wasting
so let me rape
the options