The life of a depressed housewife

Dayna TroisiJuly 18, 2025

I have done it again– Nothing Being useless Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like nothing I do it so it ...

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Visiting Cebu Through Google Earth

Dawn Angelicca BarcelonaJuly 14, 2025

My city-boy father cut off the data to his iPhone and I wonder: where are all these photos going? His photos turn me into a traveling circus or a zoo, my s...

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Uber Eats Us All

Chris VolaJuly 7, 2025

alone in your hunger contemplating a rainstorm while the last crumb of your cheesy gordita crunch falls from the ottoman you think no one hears i...

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If I could text the Filet-o-Fish

David ColodneyJuly 4, 2025

I’d write this: We’re both past 60 now, and yet you’ve managed to keep your same shape: round on the outside, square in between. I’m just getting rounder. Some ...

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Summer is a pop genre

Lina BuividavičiūtėJune 26, 2025

I am stroking my cat's fur – white with a black tail and ears. I'm lying in a hammock, reading him my latest love novel – My cat is an intellectual who ha...

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THE ROOMBA HAS LOCKED ITSELF IN THE BATHROOM

Benjamin DrevlowJune 25, 2025

The roomba has locked itself in the bathroom and isn’t coming out. Keeps banging from wall to bathtub to cabinet to shitter. I keep waiting to hear vomiting, ...

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Angler

Nicole ShepherdJune 23, 2025

Any woman with fangs knows her flicker resurrects what should stay rotting in the Marianas Trench. Swipe, swipe. Swish. Next. Plenty of fish— and none...

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travolta in narcissus

SHANK3June 20, 2025

shadowed man of many mirrors naked and resonant in the lone shell of disco’s ruin— your shine that stabs, blinds me with glittered contempt, ordained to ...

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The Party Mime Contingent

Robert John MillerJune 13, 2025

Routine   Wave. Do the lean. Sip a drink. Grab a rope. Lasso someone. Now it’s a fishing reel.   Carry your gear up a ladder. Try to catc...

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Ride History

Sophia CarrollJune 11, 2025

after Marie Howe   Sometimes the driver waits for me to buckle my seatbelt. They usually don’t. Sometimes I note the flag hanging from the mirror, ask, “Are...

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Emo Kids Never Die

Justin KarcherJune 9, 2025

When I showed her my poetry for the first time she said I was just like Conor Oberst and my eyes went big like the Midwest. She was from Canada. This one n...

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Vaping

Tim FrankJune 5, 2025

Can you vape books? Sartre? Murakami? Can you vape a river or a cloudless summer sky? Will it taste like fresh mango, Or a wild country flower? Can you vap...

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Ex whose girlfriend’s Instagram was designed specifically to annoy you

Lucia GallipoliMay 29, 2025

if you’re nosy I’m sure you have one too and that you also went out of your way to find it but mine is worse than yours for desire lines apparently lead...

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How I Plan To Explain My Love For Professional Wrestling On The First Date

Gavin GarzaMay 27, 2025

Tenderness is a thing to be beaten into. — Ocean Vuong So basically, professional wrestling is the last bastion of American theater still accessible to the ...

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A Poet’s Guide to Sophist Rules

Hayley StoddardMay 26, 2025

I. Nomos You stand in front of the class shaking to read your first sonnet. They clap, or laugh, or fall still. When they stand, you clap, laugh, or fall ...

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Waterworld

Chelsea FanningMay 23, 2025

Sometimes, I imagine Waterworld reshot from the female gaze. Instead of Kevin Costner’s gilled Mariner, the story focuses on Helen, a hard working woman try...

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review of the los angeles times festival of books

Rory StrongMay 22, 2025

i really did have that panic attack at the c-span 2 tent. they were live taping two men wearing suits and sitting in armchairs. beside them, others were han...

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Medusa as Cassandra

Kara DorrisMay 21, 2025

Goddess, you will be so cute in Clueless. Will play clueless so well everyone overlooks you, dazzled by Cher’s silky hair & keen knee-highs. You won’t k...

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NOT THE BEES

Brandon DiehlMay 20, 2025

When my therapist asks me what’s wrong today, I start to regret even attending this video meeting. She wants to know if it’s the depression or the anxiety or...

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Hemispherical Torsion with Jumprope

Sara FitzpatrickMay 12, 2025

When I was a very small spool I sparked a trigger and became a doll house. I couldn’t see the apple and when it rotted I couldn’t see it even more. I was racked...

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Sorry, but the T. Rex Doesn’t Look Anything Like What You Think It Does 

Abigail RaleyApril 30, 2025

She’s actually skinny. She’s on Ozempic, enduring her small apocalypse: too many jokes about her tiny arms. She’s had a bad day. If you knew anything about...

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It’s only a music video

Dayna TroisiApril 16, 2025

I set the strip mall on fire The nail salon was the first to go Up in smoke Acetone and gel, powdered blood It rained Lincoln Park After Dark nail polish F...

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notes app apology but i wrote the shit in wingdings so you know i am fr fr (translated)

Travis ShosaApril 15, 2025

What do you mean you’re deferring the Palestinian rapper feature because it’s not the right time?   I’m sorry for thinking you had a backbone &nbs...

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Anthropomorphism

Lina BuividavičiūtėApril 10, 2025

My Facebook page is flooded with animated Cat paintings – mother cats walking on The two legs. Their bulging bellies are reminiscent of womanhood. Moth...

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Marvel movies weren’t meant to inspire martyrs but—

Maia Brown-JacksonApril 9, 2025

I'm looking for dynamite, I think. When I go, I'm not drowning; no long, slow pulls of oxygen out of me— just a quick boom! and it’s done. That’s how I’...

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Oh god oh fuck

Lucas RestivoApril 8, 2025

Lately I've been thinking of getting into humiliation rituals. Most of what I say amounts to sharpie on a QR code. I just can’t help that Cyber Trucks look ki...

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Garish Decorations in the Graveyard

Ewen GlassApril 7, 2025

Ron&Esther complained to the council; just look at all the balloons and tacky teddy-bears! They didn’t know it was the children’s section, and when they wer...

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Twitter DM Death Threat I Sent to Jesus Christ Last Night

Grant FrazierApril 5, 2025

YOU prince of cold, of peace, of stones and lobbing long-thrown venom writhing wriggling: I am rumbling raging brush and you are my animal sibling grunting &a...

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Fade into You

David ColodneyApril 3, 2025

          Ok, readers, between us, I joined & canceled Columbia House record club memberships & picked 12 CDs...

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A Buffy revival series is in the works at Hulu & you have so many questions

Victoria NordlundApril 2, 2025

like, how can it be 22 years since Buffy last aired? If you claim this is your favorite show, why haven’t you seen it since 2003? Was it really as good as yo...

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