2017—2025
75 pieces from the years before we started pretending these were annuals.
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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, and I told everyone in my creative writing class. You did, too—right?” “I did.” Eduardo…
Read →so anyway the students were hoping the prof would be stoned he was julie waznowski? “here” julie, do you write poetry while smoking pot? “I don’t know what to say” pass your sample poems to the…
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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,…
Read →I a good talking to a man sees his reflection in the still water this is how you look to others a…
Read →Always live in regret. The past is ever present. There are no new days; you are the same person you were before.…
Read →my refrigerator makes an all doom sound once in a while it used to really bother me when I was crazy I…
Read →this woman on the radio was just talking about the glory of God she said heaven opened up and she could hear…
Read →it’s 5.00 pm still no luck out in the cold the apartment dreary teenage boys cutting in front of me to do…
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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 like that. I started reading a thread, which is poetry forum lingo for a poem followed…
Read →“yeah, i don’t know why they don’t legalize this stuff,” karsten said. i watched the thick plume of smoke snake up out…
Read →Worrying about doing a poetry reading at Barnes & Noble I don’t know if the guy sitting next to me heard…
Read →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…
Read →That’s what I learned on TV. The first fish to crawl from the muck became me. These hands were fins; lungs, once…
Read →—for DJFIII What 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…
Read →blue jays build a nest in the pine, swallows migrate overhead, wren in and out of the compost, centipede in beak behind…
Read →After waking up from a four day binge of alcohol, hash, pills, I found myself lying next to a woman I didn’t…
Read →Ten minutes into this interview, and my frayed sleeve is on full display, but not in a good way definitely not a…
Read →reading Leonard Cohen by candlelight, visualizing bonfire night, your birthday were you still alive under that streetlamp, we could walk together to…
Read →the thin film of my mouth on your cunt in a half-mile high toilet just to keep us going through an invisible…
Read →If you stand away from me & I stand away from you & you & you & you many of us will…
Read →I’m gonna tell everyone my Facebook got hacked. It isn’t true. It’s easier when trying to surgically remove family members and fake…
Read →the neighbors are setting off fireworks the sky is farting national pride only it’s like the civil war it looks and feels…
Read →Today I found them by chance and re-read them: he tells me it’s because of the drink that he is in jail…
Read →‘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…
Read →Everything shines brighter in Heather’s hell with piercing visions of uncomfortable truths. Old MacDonald still has a farm because society requires sustenance.…
Read →while I waited for a connecting flight in the Lisbon airport I found myself seated opposite an elderly man in a red…
Read →The fret’s returned soon the windows will need to be cleaned again to wash off all the limescale and bird shit We’ve…
Read →My mother and her husband are talking to a married couple from Wisconsin probably the same age They describe themselves as nice…
Read →I once tried to kick in the screen of a 21” color tv wearing my Tony Lama shit kickers. The boot’s heel…
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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…
Read →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 and I would like it to go away. Rubbing only agitates.…
Read →Dr. Seuss’ 1st book, “A Pocket Book of Boners,” published in 1941, was a collection of 4 books, the first 3 copyrighted…
Read →alotta writers say they write for themselves if they are then why am I reading their shit?
Read →My virginity is still lost somewhere in Athens, Greece. After serving my hippie time for marijuana possession I admit I was happy…
Read →always question the avatar if it is actually a representation it is likely modified no one really likes how they look and…
Read →I start the day like the last one ended head in hand on pillow words fighting their way out— all sterile-sentiment-sap love…
Read →It was a strange sermon. Most adults were nodding in deference, some with fatigue. I didn’t get it, until I got home…
Read →after losing too much money gambling I play Sinatra singing Send in the Clowns lying on my stupid ass with my pants falling…
Read →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 his eyes rolled back into his head, he dreamed of rescuing her…
Read →it was another late morning mid week i was rolling a skinny joint with some leftovers from the table when my lady…
Read →My body lies, tells the truth, but lies again. Sweet discharge, then inflammation. You on top, breathing as I receive. Delivery insistent…
Read →Boxes seem to dent the floor their placement, a weight that sucks the future in. So long I’ve waited to wait for…
Read →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 out of the annual outdoor Santa celebration, where parents and kids gather…
Read →when my wife gave me shit for the poop in my underwear I had, had enough of it I can’t help the…
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it was another late morning mid week i was rolling a skinny joint with some leftovers from the table when my lady…
Read →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.…
Read →I wrote this for you, asshole because you parked and took up two spaces so I am taking this opportunity to write this to you, asshole because I never got the chance to call you an…
Read →“Some cunts stole my shoes!” said Danny I looked at his socks soggy and soaked stepping in puddles “I was asleep in…
Read →and listen to the silence which isn’t really silence but a collection of many subtle sounds similar to a television or radio…
Read →life is a 72 year old hangover and I am tired tired of the endless meetings tired of the cordial conversations the…
Read →I never had to spend Christmas at the mental hospital I imagine it’s exactly like it sounds
Read →Cows doze along one side of the barb-wire, tombstones on the other, a few ragged leaves and a cigarette wrapper scurry across…
Read →The wind has brought its army of rowdy ghosts to the windows and doors of the house, tonight; “We know you’re in…
Read →I’m smoking and drinking more— it’s almost the holidays I need to be as numb as possible last year Santa broke his…
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I take the razor all the way down my leg a thin line of blood arcs over my thigh it looks like…
Read →In a park near my home some big fucker who didn’t like my face took a swing at me. I blocked his…
Read →it’s 75 degrees the first real nice day since winter I’m staring at a patch of grass with a confused look on…
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it’s 11 o’clock at night & i’m striking the bong standing at my window, staring at the lights, pondering the universe &…
Read →no I don’t wanna go for a walk you fuck you want me to walk around this park and enjoy what? these…
Read →The couple at the next table arguing about politics. The guy at the bar telling a story like he’s Hemingway reborn. The…
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