To make ideas solid, follow these steps

Step 1 Stop Thinking
Step 2 Unpack your piece and pack your mind
Step 3 Find inspiration
Step 4 Write about it
Step 5 Repeat the above steps until your ink runs out.

Nuclear Jersey

I live in nuclear Jersey, where atoms collide like billiard balls on New Brunswick exit 9
I live in nuclear Jersey,
where people are raised on converted farm fields, six lane highways, and Romanian barber shops
my state glows in the dark, like Ramada
in nuclear Jersey, fiber optics replace arteries
our polluted sub-urban over-populated strip-mall-shopping blood flows through congested jughandle-turning veins
up there in our stratosphere ozone molecules are dying from second hand smoke
and down here people don't breathe, they puff puff choke
because I live in nuclear Jersey
we built a garden with a heartbeat
we create a steady state of constant evolution
check the pulse
you can feel it in the air, like cardiac arrest suddenly
except your body goes comfortably numb painlessly
nuclear Jersey is perfectly stable but powerful like a meltdown
so buy a fallout shelter and enjoy your stay.

twin

every poem has a twin
every poet has an inverse vertebrae to convey
every imaginable thought, halfway
every poem makes sense until the halfway point, when you find yourself stopped on the solid double line,
paralyzed by the poet's double vision
unreal precision unpacks truth on the page
but you have to flip to finish

[flip page]

this sentence
after sentence, after sentence until all sense is lost, like the famous Frost poem
except both paths lead to the same destination

a light bulb
goes off
while floating
on top
of your head

every poem has a twin
every poet has a dark side.