Poetry

In the smallest glass bowl offered in the largest pet store, a red betta   fish swims like a goddamn king beside the other smallest ...

blowing smoke like mushroom clouds and i can't help it!! it just keeps coming out that way any time i smoke a cigareeeeeeeeeeette out comes a plume of camel smo...

the office slut            (sand-dollar skin          electric cor...

1. your name crawls arrogantly over both itself & half-finished stacks of half-assed art amassing in the narrow hallways of your father’s home. 2. your p...

the life & death of an arborist  a nectarine hyperaware of its pit worried that the bites i’ve taken have already been much too big that my jaw is sti...

How are you today? How’s your self care? Shut the fuck up you fucking bureaucrat Even if you did give a shit I wouldn’t give a shit that you give a shit Don...

After two weeks of thinking minimalist, talking minimalist, breathing   minimalist(!) I dream of buying groceries   in a superstore, cart loaded beyond c...

Flip through a thousand prefabricated ideologies. Pick one, kiss. ...

preferably able to be summed up with some sort of  dramatic metaphor. something like - falling in love with you was like being hit by an ambulance - or somethin...

Having anxiety isn’t cool like being bipolar, and you don’t get bumper sticker slogans scribbled with advice about life.   You don’t get to wri...

I would glue magnets to the back of beer bottle caps and give them away as gifts. I would make every recipe in Gutes Essen: Good Eating in German-Russian Co...

it’s 1:05 am on a work night and i’m afraid to write a poem. i’m afraid of finding out the version of me who worries about it being 1:05 am on a work night ...

My wife wears a beard made of goat hair. She is only putting the false one on until she can grow a beard herself. When we walk to the twenty-four-seven, she twi...

Waiting for the downtown 6 at 5 o’clock, my other life comes rushing back in waves. A man straps an accordion to his chest, opens and closes its bellows, d...

I dropped out of college because I couldn’t handle the routine  now I work at a shoe store,  and I spend every day I’m not working in bed watching YouTube vid...