I get a hundred e-mails a day that have nothing
to do with my life—they’re for things I might
buy but haven’t, places I could go but
most likely will not
...
we watched a guy build a volcano from an onion. this seems to be going well, i thought. turns out, i actually do like sake. we watched a guy make fire by lighti...
Why do you return to the gravesite after strands
of words read wrong draw circle around your
feet After the stone has been rolled away?
and nothing found ...
The days that just fly by are the best and worst. What happens in them? Where did they go?
For the most part I would say that to the largest degree these ar...
We spent the night performing blood transfusions
pumping alcohol into each other’s veins to displace the sadness
Drunk enough to grow, but
not drunk enough ...
God damn. God damn. God damn.
I sink beneath the hands in surrender
Obliteration pleasure
In the miasma of winter
Things look binary
And all my nerves are ...
In 1804, Ignaz Troxler made the discovery that rigidly fixating one’s gaze on some element in the visual field can cause surrounding stationary images to seem t...
mascara doesn’t drip down your cheeks / you can’t even have this / an accepted expression of sadness / tears won’t come / they take effort / breath / breath / b...
If you can suppress
the symptoms for three years
we might agree
that you no longer have it
and may freely regress
to the hard-hearted
world of the healt...
What was it you said about revenge while we watched cadmium flames turn black-tile at midnight? That revenge is an unshouldered recoil, a fatal ricochet? No, th...
Don't you hate it when your imaginary boyfriend is mean to you? I've really built up a lot of resentment toward him. I found out he slept with an escort. Yes, i...
last night I dreamed about your fingers on my flesh
my body too small to take your words anymore,
I am not your handpuppet, mister last night I
screamed mysel...
He wanders up to fast food windows hoping someone will hear his confession. A seagull flaps over his head and he rises in bed almost hitting the ceiling fan. He...
there are a few men who i know
only in the biblical
sense. they have never taken me
to coffee, and i have never
met their mothers over thanks-
giving dinner....
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LET’S SAY I AM A FAMOUS AUTHOR
AND I TYPE FAST
LET’S SAY I AM A FAMOUS DRIVER
AND I RACE FAST
THERE’S NO SHAME IN IT,
YOU ARE A VEGETARIAN
AND I’M H...
my job? refill your addiction
slam it out
of storage into the office
refrigerator
the mountain stream
having peaked at an earlier age
you say it gives no ...
Icebox Plum : This zinfandel is sinful, sunny. It’s so round it’s about to bounce away—be careful! It’ll hit you on the nose with its licorice and clove, except...
While we are sitting in front of the TV
watching GIRLS, we take a pause. My
wife walks into the kitchen. There is
a mouse on the oven roaming around
in sear...
I love to be with people
But I hate the noise
My ideal would be a crowded bar
Clicked to watch on mute
Smiles, frowns, glasses overturned
A pint thrown a...
The benefits of being neurotic
The broken glass on repeat
A selfish gene slipping through the blood stream
All the strangest points coming to a headache
A...
I am made of deoxyribonucleic acid.
My fingertips are made of me.
I am made of hydrogen.
My tongue is made of me.
I am made of myoblasts.
My blood is made ...