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PoetryFrom the Retirement Home, Emailing Love Letters to My Dead Wife
I wish I could rub a genie’s lamp the way I tenderly rubbed your feet after a long day of work— then I would…
PoetryNew Orleans Airport Chapel
Tiny, claustrophobic room, stained Hopi carpet, folded-up prayer rugs, assorted scriptures, brass band in the distance. Sign: NO Alcohol NO Incense Sticks NO Cell…
PoetryHow Do You Know When You’re Dead
how do you know when you’re dead I would expect someone pokes you maybe with a stick say excuse me sir but your rotting…
PoetryGray is the Only Color Containing All Colors (and it’s also very much a Philosophy)
Dear Vacuum.This channel is glad you exist. Together we wait.The new sailor just got back.Fuck I loathe a society that accepts advertisement.And there’s something…
Poetry, PoetryIT’S CHRISTMAS AND I’M THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS THE BALLS TO HANG FROM THE TREE
at first I was pissed when the cat knocked over the Christmas tree then I was delighted our cat basically said fuck the stress…
PoetryCandy Box Kazoos
It wasn't always this way it used to be when bad guys always lost and paid for their sins there were cowboy heroes and…
PoetryClock Radio #2: The Bukowski Issue
From 1984–1987, I published the little magazine Clock Radio. Like many small ("little") literary magazines of the day, this one was produced on a shoestring,…
Poetry, Showcasealong the stream that fell from clouds & other poems
along the stream that fell from clouds he came upon a pile of bones recognized the glaze and angles as his own kicked them…
PoetryThe Final Love Poem
No chance for love poems now. Maybe we'll find another way to say it. I'll be so glad when it's over, when he finally…
