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Reverse Rumi
Always live in regret.
The past is ever present.There are no new days; you are the same person you were before.Believe...
He Did It His Way
I once tried to kick in the screen
of a 21” color tv wearing
my Tony Lama shit kickers.The boot’s heel &...
Drag Your Tape Gun Across the Night
Boxes seem to dent the floor their placement,
a weight that sucks the future in.So long I’ve...
you take what you can get
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...
Exodus 3:14
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...
Could you please shut the fuck up?
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...
Hollywood
Shopping for a new penis
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...
I wrote this for you, asshole
I wrote this for you, asshole
because you parked and took up two spacesso I am taking this opportunity
to write this...
you take what you can get
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...
Poison Sumac
My body lies, tells the truth,
but lies again. Sweet discharge,
then inflammation. You on top,breathing as I receive. Delivery
insistent as vines....
creative writing 101
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...
a man gives himself
Ia good talking toa man sees his reflection
in the still waterthis is how you look
to othersa fish jumpsthis is how...
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Could you please shut the fuck up?
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
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
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...
I GUESS I SHOULD PLAY FRISBEE OR BUY AN ICE CREAM
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...
Phoenix, 1965
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...
Shaving my legs
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...
Rudolph’s red nose looks like a big zit
I’m smoking
and drinking more—
it’s almost the holidaysI need to be as numb as possiblelast year Santa broke his neck falling...
SPIRIT AND / OR WIND
The wind has brought its
army of rowdy ghosts to
the windows and doorsof the house, tonight;
"We know you're in there," the...
Night Comes Down
Cows doze along one side of the barb-wire,
tombstones on the other,a few ragged leaves and a cigarette wrapper
scurry across the...
CHRISTMAS AT THE MENTAL HOSPITAL
I never had to
spend
Christmas
at the
mental hospital
I imagine it’s
exactly like
it sounds
The Death of Everything
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...
Sometimes I sit in a room
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...
DANNY AND THE GIANT PASTY
"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
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
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...
you take what you can get
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...
There’s poop in my underwear
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...
Woman arrested for selling adult toys at Santa gathering
Her motivation was simple enough. "Why should the kids get all the presents?" a red-clad woman said as Milford police...
Drag Your Tape Gun Across the Night
Boxes seem to dent the floor their placement,
a weight that sucks the future in.So long I’ve...
Poison Sumac
My body lies, tells the truth,
but lies again. Sweet discharge,
then inflammation. You on top,breathing as I receive. Delivery
insistent as vines....
you take what you can get
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...
Mighty Fine Stripper from Portland
Her stage name was Cupcake. It’s not often that you meet a woman when her crotch is already in your...
Dumbass cashes out
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
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!
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
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
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
alotta
writers
say
they
write
for
themselves
if
they
are
then
why
am
I
reading
their
shit?
Silly Facts
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
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
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
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
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...
Shopping for a new penis
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
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
‘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
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...
It’s the 4th of July and I don’t feel free having to listen to...
the neighbors are setting off fireworks
the sky is farting national pride
only it’s like the civil war
it looks and feels like...
Dermoid Cyst
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
If you stand away from me
& I stand away from you
& you & you & you
many of us will need...
200Kmph and Nineteen, Berlin
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
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
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
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
—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
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...
14,000 energy drinks
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
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
"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
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
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
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
my refrigerator makes an all doom sound once in a while
it used to really bother me when I was crazy
I...
Reverse Rumi
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
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
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...
creative writing 101
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
“So how do we get their attention?” said Eduardo.“I’m not sure,” said Darrius. “We tacked up fliers at the university,...