OPEN FIFTHS

By Ariana Reines - Apr 30, 2017

I just watched a Tony Robbins video
You may judge this a counterrevolutionary gesture
Thinking about the people I forgot to write back to
I ate as much peanut butter as I could
Listening to I CAN’T HELP FALLING IN LOVE WITH YOU

(Pats the boot of his gun affectionately) a kind of bug
As siphoner sucking up the purple world thru its straw
Whorling hurricanes out from the backs of beetles, diaper rashes
Heavy tits heavy eyes of a heavy lady, a lady with fibroids
A lady who suffers migraines, I wanna fuck a woman who knows pain

Father John Misty’s “Pure Comedy”

By Zachary Lipez - Apr 28, 2017

I want to defend the new Father John Misty album, “That’s Entertainment” or “All That Jazz” or “Misty ...

Keeps You Sharp

By Sam Pink - Apr 24, 2017

I was walking home through downtown St. Pete, sweating badly.

This older guy crossed paths with me near a concrete ledge overlooking an area of creek.

‘Man, goddamn it,’ he said, stopping by me as though we’d already been talking.

I stopped too.

‘This motherfucker….’ he said, gesturing out somewhere.

He had faded tattoos and big, raw pock marks all over his arms.

Skevanston, Illinois

By Drew Gamble - Apr 24, 2017

In 1977, my parents bought a house on a busy street. The home fell inside of a half-square mile oddity of land and bureaucratic mishap that the locals called Skevanston. This real estate snafu allowed people like my parents to buy a better valued home in the city of Evanston’s school district while paying the town of Skokie’s lower property taxes.

excerpts from Person/a

By Elizabeth Ellen - Apr 21, 2017

Lately I have been wondering how many accidental car crashes are misdiagnosed suicides. It seems that if your intent is to kill yourself without afterward being thought an asshole by your friends and family, running your car into a tree or telephone pole would be the way to do it. Nobody gets hurt and everyone chalks it up as a “freak occurrence.” Of course now that I’ve posed the question in this form, I have eliminated it as a possibility for myself.

I AM YOUNG IN MY LOVE FOR THE MOON

By Leopoldine Core - Apr 19, 2017

I wanted to write a love poem

the most impossible thing

and I did
and it wasn’t hard

and afterward I took a walk
and nothing seemed hard.

Five Poems

By Sam Cooke - Apr 15, 2017

Time poem

If time is money

and I don’t have money

then I don’t have time

for your bullshit

I Know About Micrograms Now

By Tao Lin - Apr 12, 2017

In 2012 I didn’t know much about micrograms.
Drugs I used then were measured mostly in milligrams.
2 milligrams of Xanax, 30 milligrams of Adderall.

WET HAIR

By Ben Fama - Apr 9, 2017

Yesterday you went to the desert I put on Brahms channel and washed the tub my fur stood up seeing your ...

Tupac Dies in the End

By Noah Cicero - Apr 7, 2017

Tupac sits among the thousands of people at the Seldon vs. Tyson fight. Tupac feels calm. He loves Tyson, and he wants to watch a man get destroyed. He wants to experience victory. Suge Knight is sitting next to him – his best friend, his boss, the owner of Death Row Records. As Tupac looks around, he thinks that he has never felt like one of them. He has always felt, deep in his chest, that his life was an emergency, that he could never quit for even one second. Everyone around him lived in mimicry, and this mimicry killed him.

Chicken

By Brandon Hobson - Apr 4, 2017

Back when I was doing cocaine, we found a chicken in our yard. We weren’t sure how it got there, but it wouldn’t leave. My wife made me take a broom outside to try to scare it away.
     “It’s just a chicken,” I said.
     “You’re a chicken,” she said.

Interview for the Position of Grand Inquisitor

By Ken Baumann - Apr 3, 2017

1. The ability of language to comfort has eroded entirely. Words spoken now serve only to point. You’re given the material means to craft a language free of the dead weight of history. Describe its grammar.

APRIL TYRANT: JORDAN CASTRO

By JORDAN CASTRO - Apr 1, 2017

Hi everyone, The function of this post is to provide an easily accessible, organized list of everything I publish ...