We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough

I was recently approached by the very talented young poet/writer

Mike Young. He was nice enough to include my illustration "The Defiance of Physics" as the front and back cover of his newly released book, "We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough," which is available to purchase over at Publishing Genius Press out of Baltimore. It is a book of short poetry:

below is a sampling of one of his great poems.

All of These Parties Outside the Microwave

MIKE YOUNG

My friend, I went to your stupid mine,

carried in obligation's very hot mitten.

Everything was ticked as Gift, Scar, or Luck.
The new parasail made you look post-history,

as we do feel, or feel-ish, long enough to
fuck up. I did that eyebrows thing like good job.

Then we stood on the roof, years of stilt training
between us. We chewed Sudafeds and ham, chuckled at

by all: all that passes for beloved these days.
Why is cake in the shape of a rocket not

you? Someone wants to draw your face and I say
ransom. When my friend makes a good joke,

my other friends are in the shower distantly,
as the minutes of the sun left wait to be

picked for the dodgeball of sentiment.
Half the time I feel like U.S.S. Bitchface,

and all the people line up to pet me. Other-
wise, I cut burritos with a pizza slicer and you

laugh and I think "if that is your real laugh,
go to sleep. I want to steal it. Don't go."