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
Read More >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.
Office Day
By Sarah Rose Etter - Apr 10, 2017
What do I do in the evenings? I take off the mask. I stare into the eyes of a man in a photograph. I hum. The humming is based on ancient chants I read about in a book. Lately, my concern has been with wholeness: Am I whole? Should I be completed? What will do the legwork of this completion?
Read More >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 ...
Read More >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.
Read More >Three Poems
By Rachel B. Glaser - Apr 5, 2017
I wanna b a mountain does a mountain still get her period? I wanna b a racoon but still date Donny H. like I ...
Read More >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.
Read More >Some Dogs I Know
By Bud Smith - Apr 2, 2017
German Shepherd – Narc. Hates fun. Fascist. Bred to fight crime, so don’t buy if you’re a criminal. Sharp teeth. Loud ass bark. My parents had one that they named Cybil. Cybil Shepherd, haha. My parents got caught growing pot in between their tomato plants down in south Jersey. I think Cybil Shepard reported them to the cops.
Read More >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 ...
Read More >Your Freedom Country
By Emily May - Mar 27, 2017
October in Bangkok is hot and rainy. I stared out into the city from the back of a pink cab in gridlock, the windows streaked with my own breath. I’d arrived in the capital after a ten-hour bus ride, and I had twelve hours to kill as I waited for another bus to take me further south, to the beach where my friends awaited.
Read More >Cocaine Barbara Plays Whack-a-Mole with Her Heart
By Anaïs Duplan - Mar 24, 2017
Much to her surprise, Barbara in the city. Teaching some children about poetry. “What is there to know?” she says, poised on all fours on the desk at the front of the room, “What is there to know about Donne? You tell me.” Cocaine Barbara belching chicken bones all over the room. Everyone aces the class, ascends the ranks, becomes the lecturer at here-or-there. So, Barbara in her eighties, still in the city, living with Michael in some god-awful hole, making eyes at rats, licking and being licked.
Read More >CRUISE
By LA Warman - Mar 22, 2017
I. earlier i saw the first openly gay couple in weeks and if you ask me what ...
Read More >EMPIRE
By Richard Wehrenberg Jr. - Mar 20, 2017
Stop signs have proven
to cause incorrigible and abstract frustrations
enduring for hours & transferred
unconsciously to others
Energy continues long after it
The stars are dead their light still traveling
Read More >Two Poems
By Elaine Kahn - Mar 15, 2017
ROMANCE
I have heard it said
that love
turns people
soft
but I have
never been
more
brutal
Read More >DOLLAR TREE
By Jae Choi - Mar 13, 2017
american dollar store
california dollar store
super dollar store
only dollar store
un dollar store #1
mighty dollar store
Read More >Two Poems
By Jon-Michael Frank - Mar 10, 2017
I
there’s a crude bloom to the pear trees
I feel guilty about not being
a loud pee humming from the next stall
Read More >Don’t tell my mother if they kill me
By Angel Dominguez - Mar 8, 2017
Let her think they hid me in the void
Let her think I avoided hot lead
Let her think I avalanched east
Let her think I’ve become forest
Read More >Two from “Nature Poem”
By Tommy Pico - Mar 6, 2017
My singing teacher tells me find your center
Tornado fucking is a natural phenomenon
wherein you start on your stomach,
get flipped to the right side,
then he slides under you slams
Read More >Objects of Desire
By Stacey Tran - Mar 3, 2017
Animal eye contact. A bouncy ball in the palm of the hand. The crust of the earth is a place to pray ...
Read More >September
By Jos Charles - Mar 1, 2017
i. The rain distributes within the world This implies a grammar The map maker ...
Read More >Form N-400 Erasures
By Niina Pollari - Feb 23, 2017
Form N-400, Application for Naturalization, is an application to become a naturalized U.S. ...
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