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Could you please shut the fuck up?

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The couple at the next table arguing about politics. The guy at the bar telling a story like he’s Hemingway reborn. The TV spitting...

SOME BIPOLAR TYPE SHIT AT THE PArK

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no I don’t wanna go for a walk you fuckyou want me to walk around this park and enjoy what?these fucking trees? and people picking...

Holding the bong

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it's 11 o'clock at night & i'm striking the bongstanding at my window, staring at the lights, pondering the universe & the pasti can't explain...

VOMIT

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at this party smoking a cigarette with sun in my eyes my face flushed out of breath I just threw up and only the fly in it cares
Photo of Man Leaning on Wooden Table

I GUESS I SHOULD PLAY FRISBEE OR BUY AN ICE CREAM

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it’s 75 degrees the first real nice day since winterI’m staring at a patch of grass with a confused look on my face like...
man with mask

Phoenix, 1965

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In a park near my home some big fuckerwho didn’t like my face took a swing at me.I blocked his right hand with my left& by...
bathtub with water and flowers

Shaving my legs

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I take the razor all the way down my lega thin line of blood arcs over my thighit looks like the first color of a rainbow at nightI keep staring at itthen I use...
Man in Santa Claus Costume Sitting on Wooden Chair

Rudolph’s red nose looks like a big zit

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I’m smoking and drinking more— it’s almost the holidaysI need to be as numb as possiblelast year Santa broke his neck falling...
trees with wind photo

SPIRIT AND / OR WIND

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The wind has brought its army of rowdy ghosts to the windows and doorsof the house, tonight; "We know you're in there," the...
silhouette of person standing beside bare tree under stary sky

Night Comes Down

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Cows doze along one side of the barb-wire, tombstones on the other,a few ragged leaves and a cigarette wrapper scurry across the...
men's white top

CHRISTMAS AT THE MENTAL HOSPITAL

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I never had to spend Christmas at the mental hospital I imagine it’s exactly like it sounds 
A Close-up Shot of an Elderly Man Smoking Cigarette

The Death of Everything

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life is a 72 year old hangover and I am tired tired of the endless meetings tired of the cordial conversations the unfriendly faces the...
Person Looking Out The Window

Sometimes I sit in a room

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and listen to the silence which isn't really silence but a collection of many subtle sounds similar to a television or radio playing in...
woman in black jacket riding red and silver shopping cart

DANNY AND THE GIANT PASTY

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"Some cunts stole my shoes!" said Danny I looked at his socks soggy and soaked stepping in puddles "I was asleep in the park minding me own business and the cunts stole my shoes!" Danny’s...

I wrote this for you, asshole

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I wrote this for you, asshole because you parked and took up two spacesso I am taking this opportunity to write this...

Shame On Me

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I didn’t get the job cuz I wasn’t who they expected.I didn’t sell the painting cuz it didn’t fit their frames.I wasn’t promised heaven cuz...
A Couple Smoking Weed Together

you take what you can get

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it was another late morning mid weeki was rolling a skinny joint with some leftovers from the tablewhen my lady walked out of the bathroomoh my...

SHIT

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looking at the enormous dump I just took I say to myselfyou’ve been carrying that around all day?! no wonder you felt like shit
photo of man fishing on lake

Lure

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I’m that fly fisherman way upstream where I’ve never beenwaist deep in quiet water catching myself trying too hard.
water splashing on two running people

There’s poop in my underwear

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https://soundcloud.com/user-674857679/theres-poop-in-my-underwearwhen my wife gave me shit for the poop in my underwear I had, had enough of it I can't help the crap on my...
bokeh photography of Santa Claus

Woman arrested for selling adult toys at Santa gathering

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Her motivation was simple enough. "Why should the kids get all the presents?" a red-clad woman said as Milford police...
person holding black tablet computer

Back Exam

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X-ray technician holds film to light, whispers aloud: “My God you're constipated...”
black cat in brown cardboard box

Drag Your Tape Gun Across the Night

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Boxes seem to dent the floor their placement, a weight that sucks the future in.So long I’ve...
close photo of woman's back

Poison Sumac

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My body lies, tells the truth, but lies again. Sweet discharge, then inflammation. You on top,breathing as I receive. Delivery insistent as vines....
white toilet paper roll on white toilet bowl

you take what you can get

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it was another late morning mid weeki was rolling a skinny joint with some leftovers from the tablewhen my lady walked out of the bathroomoh my...
woman in gray platform stilettos

Mighty Fine Stripper from Portland

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Her stage name was Cupcake. It’s not often that you meet a woman when her crotch is already in your...
left human hand with x mark

X-Lover

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X, as in X-rated. That’s how it starts. X, as in stupefied, tongues hanging from our mouths. X, as in two rivers,...
person holding red sliced fruit

If only

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she had said, “A talking snake tried to tempt meinto eating the no-no fruit but I didn’t listen”instead of, “I know something you don’t know”I’d never have...

Pfizered

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2 shots of Pfizer and I’m hung overI walk like I’m in waves in the ocean that are swaying me all aroundthis...

Dumbass cashes out

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after losing too much money gambling I play Sinatra singing Send in the Clowns lying on my stupid ass with my pants falling down knowing...

Exodus 3:14

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It was a strange sermon. Most adults were nodding in deference, some with fatigue.I didn’t get it, until I got home and heard a...

fucking poets!

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I start the day like the last one ended head in hand on pillow words fighting their way out— all sterile-sentiment-sap love and longing more or less everything you...

don’t trust anyone

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always question the avatar if it is actually a representation it is likely modified no one really likes how they look and if they...

This is me not exaggerating

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My virginity is still lost somewhere in Athens, Greece. After serving my hippie time for marijuana possession I admit I was happy that...

Bullshit Writers

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alotta​ writers​ say​ they​ write​ for​ themselves​​ if​ they​ are​ then​ why​ am​ I​ reading​ their​ shit? 

Silly Facts

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Dr. Seuss' 1st book, "A Pocket Book of Boners," published in 1941, was a collection of 4 books, the first 3 copyrighted in 1931: "Boners," "More...

In protest of morning

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Dear Sir or Madam,I would like to protest the morning. I am smoking too many cigarettes. (cough, cough-spit.) There is...

For Seth Guy

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A pig sits on my bookshelf a question mark branded on its flank Sometimes when the mood compels me I pick it up without protest give it a squeeze and...

He Did It His Way

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I once tried to kick in the screen of a 21” color tv wearing my Tony Lama shit kickers.The boot’s heel &...

A £1,000 TIP

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My mother and her husband are talking to a married couple from Wisconsin probably the same age They describe themselves as nice but very stupid and have been on a...

OkCupid

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Longhaired strongman divorced weary of seeing the horrors in the world has hung up his jaw-bone-of-an-ass seeks a Delilah for fun & bondage will gladly turn your grind...

Father

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I am ashamed of my schism, my contortionist brain and tongue. Told status is a ticket to love.Take hurried notes on how to...

Shopping for a new penis

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The fret’s returned soon the windows will need to be cleaned again to wash off all the limescale and bird shit We’ve ended up flicking from channel to channel avoiding the...

sorting old photographs: Lisbon

while I waited for a connecting flight in the Lisbon airport I found myself seated opposite an elderly man in a red hat bearing, in...

Everything Shines Brighter in Her Hell

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Everything shines brighter in Heather’s hell with piercing visions of uncomfortable truths.Old MacDonald still has a farm because society requires sustenance. No one...

Penile Sphincter

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‘Number three all over my friend’ for which he’ll charge me £9.50 It’s been a few months since the last haircut One of the...

My Father’s Prison Letters

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Today I found them by chance and re-read them: he tells me it’s because of the drink that he is in jail and that...
short-coated brown dog biting American flag

It’s the 4th of July and I don’t feel free having to listen to...

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the neighbors are setting off fireworks the sky is farting national pride only it’s like the civil war it looks and feels like...

Robert

My husband had no idea that he’d proposed. Nor I. We just suddenly found people turning upoutside our home with salads....

Dermoid Cyst

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I’m gonna tell everyone my Facebook got hacked. It isn’t true. It’s easierwhen trying to surgically remove family members and fake friends like fake...

covid-culture

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If you stand away from me & I stand away from you & you & you & you many of us will need...

200Kmph and Nineteen, Berlin

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the thin film of my mouth on your cunt in a half-mile high toilet just to keep us going through an invisible security corridor from...

saying goodbye

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reading Leonard Cohen by candlelight, visualizing bonfire night, your birthdaywere you still alive under that streetlamp, we could walk together to your bench and talk awhileit’s what we...

I Keep My Hand Here to Hide the Hole in My Sleeve

Ten minutes into this interview, and my frayed sleeve is on full display, but not in a good way definitely not a hey,...

WAKING UP ONE TIME

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After waking up from a four day binge of alcohol, hash, pills, I found myself lying next to a woman I didn’t love, though...

from a seat in the garden

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blue jays build a nest in the pine, swallows migrate overhead, wren in and out of the compost, centipede in beakbehind the fence children...

A Lot of Mice

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—for DJFIIIWhat will we do when an electro- magnetic pulse from space voids our I-need-it-now! lifestyle? We'll find a lot of mice with eyes aimed low ready to...

I’m a Freaking Salamander

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That's what I learned on TV. The first fish to crawl from the muck became me. These hands were fins; lungs, once gills. I shot...

Surprise!

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"I need something positive," I said."I farted 5 times," she replied.I had no idea marriage would be like this.
woman in white tank top wearing face mask

Pandemica

I can't take this stuck, covid 19 not a store open to buy something inessential (which are the best things to buy)I've gone to corona...
Monster Punch can

14,000 energy drinks

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14,000 energy drinks can't be wrong the taste is mutant fruit by the 14,000th one today it's like drinking a flat soda can't...

Worrying about doing a poetry reading at Barnes & Noble

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9MH6c3h2k4 Worrying about doing a poetry reading at Barnes & NobleI don't know if the guy sitting next to me heard me...

some evening in March at the coffee shop

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"yeah, i don't know why they don't legalize this stuff," karsten said.i watched the thick plume of smoke snake up out of...

I was thinking about starting an internet poetry forum

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So i went online to study the one that says it's "the web's most active poetry forum" or some shit...

A moth in the park

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it’s 5.00 pm still no luck out in the cold the apartment dreary teenage boys cutting in front of me to do their laundry and smoke...

The toilet water is tears

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this woman on the radio was just talking about the glory of God she said heaven opened up and she could hear...

My refrigerator said I was going to die

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my refrigerator makes an all doom sound once in a while it used to really bother me when I was crazy I...

Reverse Rumi

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Always live in regret. The past is ever present.There are no new days; you are the same person you were before.Believe...

a man gives himself

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Ia good talking toa man sees his reflection in the still waterthis is how you look to othersa fish jumpsthis is how...

So Much Dick

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Lance, I'd like you to meet Dick Dick. Ah...pleasure to meet you, Mr. Dick. The pleasure is mine. Call me Dick. Dick...yes, of...

fitbitch

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https://soundcloud.com/user-673577468-435000874/fitbitchCome on we both know that's not sweat, they sprayed you down to make it look like it. Yes it...

creative writing 101

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so anyway the students were hoping the prof would be stonedhe wasjulie waznowski?“here”julie, do you write poetry while smoking pot?“I don’t know what...

Writers’ Camp

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“So how do we get their attention?” said Eduardo.“I’m not sure,” said Darrius. “We tacked up fliers at the university,...