Ten Million Flies

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 out bad news no one...

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 up dogshit and their screaming,...

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 much about what has happened or...

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

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 I should be doing something...

 

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 chance my Tiparillo cigar smashed into...

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 bath water to clean up...

I’m smoking and drinking more— it’s almost the holidaysI need to be as numb as possiblelast year Santa broke his neck falling off my roof  into a...

The wind has brought its army of rowdy ghosts to the windows and doorsof the house, tonight; "We know you're in there," the wind is saying, pushingand tugging...

Cows doze along one side of the barb-wire, tombstones on the other,a few ragged leaves and a cigarette wrapper scurry across the highway,a skittish breeze is...

I never had to spend Christmas at the mental hospital I imagine it’s exactly like it sounds 

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 stares from others the death...

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 the background they are there...

"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 dad up in Scotland used to...

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

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 I didn’t concede being born...

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 god, she said i just...

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

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

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 hanes I said plain but she...

Her motivation was simple enough. "Why should the kids get all the presents?" a red-clad woman said as Milford police handcuffed and escorted her...

X-ray technician holds film to light, whispers aloud: “My God you're constipated...”

Boxes seem to dent the floor their placement, a weight that sucks the future in.So long I’ve waited to wait for...

My body lies, tells the truth, but lies again. Sweet discharge, then inflammation. You on top,breathing as I receive. Delivery insistent as vines. Once you climb inside, those...

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 god, she said i just...

Her stage name was Cupcake. It’s not often that you meet a woman when her crotch is already in your lap. But fortuitous. As...

X, as in X-rated. That’s how it starts. X, as in stupefied, tongues hanging from our mouths. X, as in two rivers, meeting head-on and fighting...

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 tasted her juicy taunt.

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

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 no matter how hard I...

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 different version watching Popeye on...

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 despiseyou tune me a broken...

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

My virginity is still lost somewhere in Athens, Greece. After serving my hippie time for marijuana possession I admit I was happy that prisons exist. I didn’t need...

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

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 Boners," "Still More Boners" & "Prize...

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

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 it makes a noise I...

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

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 number of cruises before one which...

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 stone & attend to your...

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

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 Third Reich’s home movies and a...

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 bold script Hot Stuffhe looked...

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 wants to do the...

‘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 other barbers says ‘Oh fuck...

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 he is going to stop...

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

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

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 news.Social media has been...

If you stand away from me & I stand away from you & you & you & you many of us will need to walk on water &...

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 west to eastnotes of...

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 always did best— just talk,...

Ten minutes into this interview, and my frayed sleeve is on full display, but not in a good way definitely not a hey, sailor-ish way, more, she has...

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 she said that she loved...

blue jays build a nest in the pine, swallows migrate overhead, wren in and out of the compost, centipede in beakbehind the fence children screech, entitled neighbours don’t distance from...

—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 submit. ​

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 my sperm in the...

"I need something positive," I said."I farted 5 times," she replied.I had no idea marriage would be like this.

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 hell and I don't...

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 think bumbling down the highway heart...

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 try to apologize for...

"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 his joint and collect at...

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

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 hash on the dryer i have...

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

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

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

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

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 course...Dick. I understand you're a...

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 is, yes it is...I...

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 to say”pass your sample...

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