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The Asshole’s Final Love SongPoetry

The Asshole’s Final Love Song

Eliot JacobsonSeptember 7, 2021

all the libtards wearing masks that’s how you know who they are fuckers suffocating our kids pandemic’s never existed anyway global elite just want…

Hot Wells Hotel RuinsPoetry

Hot Wells Hotel Ruins

Jennifer WilderAugust 31, 2021

I think Teddy Roosevelt stayed here once after the asylum and before the second fire back in the time of postcards and parasols ostrich…

McDonald’s Sunday night visitation rightsPoetry

McDonald’s Sunday night visitation rights

Daniel J. Flore IIIAugust 27, 2021

it’s Sunday night and I was at my mom’s house for the weekend and we are going through the McDonald’s drive thru as a…

BlanksPoetry

Blanks

Tom SpeaksAugust 24, 2021

I've spent the past week thawing bags of frozen peas, saving our microwave the burden. Now I stand at a clinic counter holding an…

At the corner of something and somethingPoetry

At the corner of something and something

Maria MazzengaAugust 23, 2021

the dirt patch under the power plant has seen some grim fairy tales overlooking dreamstreet the mangiest of mushrooms grow there, spottily, near dessicated…

Hum AlongPoetry

Hum Along

Tom StrongAugust 17, 2021

There’s a hum under all the noise the quiet voice of silence a sound of void filling muted noise like the dark of night…

Visible Memory PunctuationPoetry

Visible Memory Punctuation

Maria MazzengaAugust 16, 2021

An old bar called The Rose Tattoo flew in from the past. The flat blue outline of floret appeared on an imaginary arm, filled…

UnamusedPoetry

Unamused

Mike CasettaAugust 15, 2021

Nothing approaching the soul-on-fire, “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness…” more like tossed potato salad. Still, I don’t put…

This is how the world endsPoetry

This is how the world ends

Eliot JacobsonAugust 14, 2021

Day after day with no entries in my Google calendar. Tell a friend who lives in Philadelphia to move to Idaho. Disable my Facebook…

Fingering out…Poetry

Fingering out…

Michael AshleyAugust 12, 2021

the dirty swill marks of yesterday's wine using bottled water this is crazy it is 36c and 8pm the sweat ring around my titties…

.precious.Poetry

.precious.

Sonja Benskin MesherAugust 11, 2021

i guess you are out on the bike speeding about the tracks whizzing along and i may have found a photo and wonder if…

MY WHOLE DAY IN A STUPID NOTEPADPoetry

MY WHOLE DAY IN A STUPID NOTEPAD

Daniel J. Flore IIIAugust 10, 2021

My whole day today is going to be writing in a notepad that I used to care about I'm going to write about how…