There was no silver here, nor gold, nor copper. There was little more than the occasional trickle of dank, green liquid oozing down the walls or across the uneven floor of the mineshaft. Still, they were sent down to dig.
Read MoreGeryon & Daedalus: A Conversation
Dear Orenda,
You subvert me at every twist of your head. Your dreamers lie prone in wait for salvation while the gusts beneath my wings torture their cheating hearts. The sheen of the scales on my back match the notches on their grimy tongues.
Read MoreBorn
Into a ballot box of pre-existing candidates / into an endless series of unlucky paychecks / into a Left of costume parties and facebook pages
Read MoreI Live an Hour From My Body
I went to visit my body to see how it was doing; it was not very responsive. It pretended I wasn’t there. That’s acknowledgment, a response, isn’t it? A step forward. You wouldn’t pretend if nobody was there. You’d just be you. Your normal, non-observed you. It was definitely pretending.
Read MoreAmerican Orthodontics
Each mouth a wound or weapon.
If weapon, then the trigger is tongue
some men dispense for spectacle
for unfair light, teeth a crowding
Bagwood
your legs, a mess of wooden spears / to spindle-stomp a landlord
Read MoreReach For the Dead
“Can you hear that?” Agent Lightfoot couldn’t hear much over the sound of the engine and the churning spray. Her partner, Deputy Frost, was adamant though. “Can’t you hear that…?” Lightfoot cupped her ear. She could. “It sounds like… singing” said Agent Frost. Lightfoot frowned and listened harder. There was something tonal going on.
Read MoreMemoires de la Guillotine
we animate the damned / we wave our flags / we march / and / chant / “solidarity”
Read MoreTwo Minutes Past Midnight
Hitched a ride from a limousine / fueled by festered gout, / traveled every wrecked highway / until the fumes ran out.
Read MoreMike, the UPS Guy, Gives Birth to the New People, But Now the Moon is a Cartoon Bomb
Billie kept a jar of fire in her backpack / for cooking in parking lots / and a scimitar for cleaning gutter fish
Read MoreWhat I Did With My $600 At the End of the World
I invested in three cans of pepper spray / from the army surplus, / passed them out and bought ten more / to watch the masked kids / choke the air
Read MoreEnd of the World
Or, to quote Marilyn Monroe: / “Its good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal”
A Love Poem For Socialists
often / I have loved love / as a stranger // but not this hour // you are the witness / of my life
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