FIVE POEMS

Brian Alan EllisMay 18, 2018

The Pros of Smashing My Phone Right Now   My mom wouldn’t be able to call asking for money and I wouldn’t have to deal with the emotional strai...

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an hour to the show

Bella Esser-MuneraMay 16, 2018

(((it's an hour to the show where are you???))) tonight I'm wearing a hoodie & a tank a man watched me from behind stacks of large rubber tires I w...

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Alexandr Simanduyev

Alex SimandMay 3, 2018

Somewhere in Russia, other me is shaving his head with his friends, hoisting barrels of rusted ball bearings overhead for sport, loitering in concrete courtyard...

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To die at Sears

Joseph QuirozApril 26, 2018

Dying in a Sears would be nice but it will never happen as I don't want to die young I'm 29 and Sears isn't going to last until my old age but why ...

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personality quiz

Shelby PackApril 26, 2018

“What shade of red are you?” the words stare at me from a screen and I wonder why the answer matters at all but it does to the 87 who commented...

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Late – for Brett, 2015

Blake WallinApril 26, 2018

Like a monk without a habit, I steal down bike lanes in snow, bridge the gap between was and where, thread the needle through growing hair. I take country...

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from 8:42 to 10:13 pm

Chris BartonApril 25, 2018

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There Is Only One Color of Betta Fish and It Is Called Alone

Christopher D. DiCiccoApril 23, 2018

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

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nukes, and: the language is hegemonic, and: what if today the daily sun is correct and the world finally ends?

Fargo TbakhiApril 21, 2018

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...

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Counterplay

Megan Denese MealorApril 2, 2018

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

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nine reasons why i dumped my hipster

Grace GilbertMarch 21, 2018

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...

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Four Love Poems

Chuck YoungMarch 19, 2018

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...

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Wednesdays

Grace HandyMarch 15, 2018

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...

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Lauren BenderMarch 15, 2018

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

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Vows

Scott WordsmanMarch 15, 2018

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

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you and i

Adrian SongMarch 12, 2018

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...

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Cool Kids

David M. TaylorMarch 8, 2018

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...

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IF I HAD A GUARANTEED BASIC INCOME …

Andrew BrownMarch 8, 2018

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...

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I’m Afraid

Kat GiordanoFebruary 21, 2018

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 ...

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The Beard

Evan NichollsFebruary 16, 2018

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...

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Missed Connections

Chelsea BunnFebruary 5, 2018

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...

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reasons to date me: 

Maximus AdarveJanuary 31, 2018

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...

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Real Live Balloon Animals

Juliet Cook and j/j hastainJanuary 24, 2018

Bunches of books positioned next to a suitcase like painted fur and the skin underneath. Put on the fur as you head to the protest, then reposition the bo...

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pov

Shannon CawleyJanuary 24, 2018

i was a part of that birdhouse the one that matched the green shutters and fed all of the hummingbirds. do you know the one too? i was a part of tha...

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dish soap

Raina K. PuelsJanuary 15, 2018

love sticks to the tongue like peanut butter.  like orbit-confined earth.  like a dog straining against her leash.  like left swipers’ thumb cramping.  like lea...

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Preview the Sentiment Inside

Jenna CardinaleJanuary 10, 2018

You can rearrange words at the museum. An offering inside standard admission. Not the numbers. Age and stream strength. Shorter. Less. You look go...

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removed

Shea FitzpatrickJanuary 9, 2018

The last time we ate takeout on your bed we watched old Hills episodes before Heidi’s plastic surgery What followed was a summer in which you got really into po...

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13 Things I Have Mistaken For Other Things

Adira BennettJanuary 4, 2018

1. paper bag for dead dog 2. drunk man for dead man 3. kind teacherly gentleman for man who wants to fuck me 4. man who wants to fuck me for kind teacherly gent...

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Alternate Universe

Elizabeth AtheyJanuary 1, 2018

In Which My Sister Understands That My Anxiety Is Real - A Conversation   “It's hard for me to talk to you about this stuff without getting overly emotio...

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The Pall

Ariella CarmellDecember 21, 2017

I was supposed to have been there for you, a specter standing fringe-like in the pall. I am not alone in this absence, yet I still long to be a part, to be a...

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