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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…

What Little I Know About LunacyPoetry

What Little I Know About Lunacy

Mike CasettaAugust 3, 2021

A lunatic in a Tucson Walmart placed a Ben & Jerry’s pint of “Oat of this Swirled” into his shopping cart & unsolicited, he…

Me and FaranelliPoetry

Me and Faranelli

Anthony HughesJuly 30, 2021

He was a celebrated Italian castrato singer of the 18th century. I am a middle-aged-white dude-high school English teacher in full Hail Mary mode,…

Sunday, you rotten bitchPoetry

Sunday, you rotten bitch

Daniel J. Flore IIIJuly 25, 2021

Sunday, you rotten bitch everything is closed and there's nowhere to go even if shit was open Roger's wasted so is Zack some guy…

DoggerelPoetry

Doggerel

Mike CasettaJuly 20, 2021

My dog is a sonofabitch. In his mind I am dog separated from my mother as a puppy when we tug a white sock.…