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Humor, Poetryan interesting night in the emergency room
i was halfway into a pint of ben & jerry’s and halfway through a bowl of blue dream when my sister called voice like…
PoetryExplosions
I am not sure if the hushed noises above my thin-walled condo are real or porn. The unit across mine is now vacant after…
Poetrybig nose (for Spark)
________________________________________________________________________ Pigma Micron Pens on Smooth Bristol paper, 18x24 inches.
Poetry, PoetryTrain
quiet joy always makes me curious so do yesterday afternoons recently purchased peeking out the top of a tote bag carried around with a…
Poetryhow to be a great professor
at one time in my foolish past i cared. i really did. i marked up papers with comments like “awkward phrasing” and “what exactly…
Poetrybottom of the glass
“you ever seen a man drink himself backwards?” i asked the barkeep, who looked like regret in a vest, polishing his way toward minimum…
PoetryAn Old Dog Reads Keats
An Old Dog Reads Keats I read Keats’ biography. Muse naps. We're both “old dogs”, nagged with illnesses. He naps as the 5:20 express…
Poetrytime travel with karsten
“fuck off,” the old man said as he heaved a black trash bag into the dumpster behind the Safeway. karsten blinked. “well damn. i…
PoetryCoins in the Canal
In Manila, I watched them toss coins into a canal slick with waste— sailors and Marines laughing, like children on leave from war. The…
Poetry, Poetrygood guys
“you ever wonder,” i said, “why we get to have nukes but if anyone else even looks interested, we call it a threat?” karsten…
Humor, Poetrybillionaires gone bitchmode: the final tweetdown
one says "without me, you'd have lost." the other says "epstein files, bro." and just like that two assholes who once held hands under…