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PoetryI think of you, I shake
Listen I don't care if you're unreliable and obsessed the bad has to go somewhere I've dodgy perspective and since I virtue rescued again…
PoetryFor the Next 19 Children
I don’t want to be numb. Crying, screaming, pleading- for-their-barely-begun-lives little kids bleeding out, shot to death in supposed safe places where they go…
PoetryWhen We Were Poets
Last time you arrived at the airport I came drunk to pick you up fringed jacket ripped jeans biker boots some beat this time please…
Contributor Blogs, Poetry10 TIPS FOR WRITING POETRY
* Be an asshole (they're interesting). * Spill a drink on the page. * Eat shit for breakfast. Write about it by dinner. *…
Poetryhis nails trimmed short
he said no fisting friday gotta keep that pussy in top shape— long weekend ahead baby girl middle of the night again at dawn…
PoetryIf you let me I’ll change my room into woods
He helps me to pronounce Anne Hedge and calls me kid—that old Casablanca dream. He has a lot of women who love him: his…
PoetryDesiderata
All night while the rain fell you turned the words over in silence The wet grass did not know your brother was asleep across…
Poetryhe read
his poems from his phone, standing there, hunched over the microphone, needy, expectant... the crowd, such as it was, not even listening, bent over…
PoetryNETFLIX
Our son gifted us Roku & his Netflix password. Now Connie & I binge every night from 7 until 2 a.m., watching murder mysteries…
PoetryPost Op for Richard Brautigan
How much of my colon did you cut out, doc? The distance between his two index fingers the last trout I caught in a…
PoetrySmall Talk
This morning I walked past your tree and told you after 36 years they are paving the road in front of your house. In…