The Coat Room Dialogues

The Coat Room Dialogues

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Latest — 25 Sep 2025

The Delilah Gospels

I’d been staying in this rotting motel for a week or two just north of Pontiac. Too long, really. I was starting to peel like the wallpaper and the week was due. It had a sheen of tobacco yellow and peeled off the wall like onion skin, revealing a

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I am a tree

I am a tree that grew too close to the path. I didn’t mean to. I just reached for the light. Isn’t that what all living things do? They came, one after another, hands like brief storms carving initials, dates, declarations, forgetting that permanence lives in wood. Years

Jack and Jill

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, But Jack couldnt stop When Jill found Jack’s candlestick. Jill didn’t hesitate, Her hands knew what to do, A flick of the wrist, And Jack... well, he knew too. She grinned as she leaned, And Jack couldn’t resist, The flame flickered

Smudge Mark

I stand, a ghost, Trapped in your mirror. I see your room, Where you are bare. You step to me, And glare through me, Like I’m your mask. You fix your hair, But you can’t see The haunt of me. I feel you breathe, And fog my glass

Breath Sand

Eyes glance, then pass, Words fade, they crash. Fingers reach, then pull, I fade, I dull. Eyes close, I'm full. They speak, I fade, I break, I trade. No warmth, no sound, I sink, unbound. No mask, no lie, No truth, no try. I stand, I break, I

The Gospel of Mack

I ran into Mack just outside a truck stop off Route 24, the kind of place that wasn’t really alive anymore, just too stubborn to die. The neon sign above the diner read 24-Hour Service, but half the letters had gone dark, and the ones still shining pulsed like

Contaminated

Wish there was something I could say Or something to rid your taste away Drone on about your insecurities Feel the pressure as it builds within Disgusted but you consume on me And found a way under my skin Sporadic and combustible Now watch me burn away and Radiate the