Sometimes inner peace is a punk rock bar in Anaheim. Dedicated to all the homies I’ve had the pleasure to meet, watch perform, and perform in front of at The Doll Hut in Anaheim, CA. Keep crushin’ it. The world needs what you have to offer. Read this and more in Cable-Knit Sweater. Get the […]

Anxiety has been a bit bad lately. Depression, too. I’m trying to find a thought or an idea worth caring about enough to write something from it. I really want to work. But I also really want to curl up and sleep until this shit passes. Read this and more in Cable-Knit Sweater. Get the […]

I’ve been listening to a lot of doo-wop and rock n’ roll lately. I’ve always loved the songs I grew up listening to on the oldies station, the way it influenced and evolved over the decades. And it always feels as if a certain degree of fun and innocence–and a fair degree of creativity–of craftsmanship […]

I’m an utter mess of a man. But I’m only the somewhat restricted or restrained mess that I am due to a constant need to self-evaluate. I’m not perfect. I never will be. But I’m trying to be better. Read this and more in Cable-Knit Sweater, an on-going poetry collection on Wattpad. Get the free mp3. […]

I’m admittedly a sentimental, love-dovey type with my wife. But I often struggle to find the words to write something, anything about the way I feel for and about her. So here’s a long-overdue attempt. Read this and more in Cable-Knit Sweater. Available on Wattpad. Get the free mp3. She’s the aloe growin’ in the […]

I’d rather someone give me the finger than wave at me when they cut me off in traffic. Because at least then, they’re being honest. Not just with me, but themselves. Read this and more in Cable-Knit Sweater, an on-going poetry collection on Wattpad. Get the free mp3. If you cut me off in traffic and […]

I was totally going to write poems for each hero in Overwatch, rotating through each class a hero at a time. Started with Mei (Damage), then followed up with D.Va (Tank). Today should have gone to a Support hero, but I’ve been sitting on this Tracer poem an extra week because I just had to […]

For me, there’s a haunting middle-ground between my anxiety and my depression. A sort of psychological, emotional DMZ that I can almost see roll in over everything. Where all feeling is lost and time has little meaning. And it’s not as if I don’t care, or have no desire to care. In fact, all I […]

There will always be more people eager to tell you how, when, where, and why you fucked up than there are those willing to acknowledge accomplishments and contributions. That’s why it’s important to cherish those few moments when someone decides to act differently, even if all you want to do is listen to all the […]

A mind like a steel trap ain’t so great when all you catch are heffalumps and woozles. Read this and more in Cable-Knit Sweater, a poetry collection available on Wattpad. Get the free mp3. I’m not a man with all the answers, just a soul in search of solutions to my questions and my problems, a lost […]

I love punk rock–the sound, the spirit, the catharsis. Raw, unashamed of what it is. This rebellious rejection of norms and expectations. To have my stand-up compared to such things by a band I sincerely love for their classic sound and style (and the personal and professional respect I have for the members) means the […]

Sometimes, for the life of me, I actually have nothing of value to say. Of course, this is a problem when I’m trying to keep this shit flowin’ on the daily. Available in Cable-Knit Sweater, a poetry collection available on Wattpad. Get the free mp3. The silence that exists in the void of my mind deafens me with […]

“I’m a dreamer stuck in the real world.” — Sir Sly, Fun Read this and more in Cable-Knit Sweater, an on-going poetry collection available on Wattpad. Get the free mp3. I live in a land of broken dreams, hiking, crawling barefoot through shattered reflections, kaleidoscopes of endless possibilities carving, tearing, rending, stained in the blood and tears trailing […]

Every single day. Read this and more in Cable-Knit Sweater, an on-going poetry collection available on Wattpad. Get the free mp3. There are still mornings I turn to that place beneath the avocado tree, hoping to find you there. — Maybe One Day. Steve Arviso. 2018.

It’s said the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. So maybe, just maybe, we shouldn’t be too surprised where we end up if we also fail to consider we might be a wee bit lost. Available in Cable-Knit Sweater, a poetry collection available on Wattpad. Get the free mp3. It’s not in me to trust the […]