Sunshine Depresso
I played Barbie’s on my bed with friends named Eileen and Jolene. An age of innocence and monsters underneath. Singing along to a Mentos commercial In a full moon we started smoking cigarettes talking...
View ArticleHow I Write A Poem
I am eating Nutella in bed. I am reading messages from men OkCupid. I am not responding to them because in this poem, playing hard to get online is easier than IRL but it’s still good practice. I am...
View ArticleWhole Life Unrequited
whole life summarized as “half of a banana left in the fridge for two days; a little brown but i’ll still eat it” whole life spent pouring Kix on the kitchen floor and watch- ing them race for the...
View ArticleUnsent Apology in my Gmail Drafts
it’s okay to dream about a person and hope she dreams about you or at least cyberstalks you daily so that your profile pic flashes in that liquid space between her closed eyes and falling asleep with...
View ArticleTHUNDER
sorry I cannot forgive the dog for abandoning us when sound took his mind to a quieter place by Terry Abrahams
View ArticleDear Ethan
The most overused word in English poetry is ghost but I’ve already used it once so far in this poem, thousands of times in this life of mine, an exit wound that never follows its own advice. So I refer...
View ArticleTo Pop Pills with a Mockingbird
Harper Lee is penning a new great American novel and all I can manage each day is scooping peanut butter into grapefruit halves because we’re out of clean bowls & write poems about how writing...
View ArticleI Wanna Eat Cheetos Right Before The Dentist And Tell You I Havent Flossed In...
i want you to keep breaking my heart please no dont stop it dont end being mad as a joke just because there are things wrong dont you leave dont you stop sitting here with me not talking and ignoring...
View ArticleOne of Every Eight Red Spider Feet Thinks Nasty Thoughts About Red...
In a pinch- With eyes always on The hands, she’s checking me For marks of the ‘real world’, me saying, I know I haven’t changed These pieces since August But don’t Tell me I’m being lazy with it, It...
View ArticleI Bought a Skateboard to Smoke One Cigarette On
I pray for nothing too visible, too ugly, something red-puckered and deep-looking. Waiting for father sleep I was Young-thinking of the perfect place— Ment for a shark-bite scar I could funeral-show—...
View Articleprose poems by gustavo rivera
Transcendence stems from being rooted, my body has been harvesting this tumor for centuries, poor kids isolated from everyone, the world is more peaceful according to the numbers, the most amount of...
View Articlerain or no rain
say we never transcend anxiety. are we any less heavenly for it? what if the curtains we draw upon our days remain white blinds for always? what if the night opens too wide and swallows the bicycle...
View Articleas gone as gone can be
in some dreams, you can know what year it is without anyone having to say. think: something about a white station wagon in the middle of a field; something about a cream-colored interior torn up by...
View ArticleSUBURBAN SCUMLORDS
Dwayne used to be my brother him and his alligator hair access points areas of soft space...
View ArticleDemolition site
here I am arms crossed tightly against my chest chin resting between my wrists marveling at the demolition site wondering how so much emptiness could be possible how a structure could still stand after...
View ArticleAffirmations
I told myself everything was fine over and over as I walked across the street against the light and the flow of traffic. I was halfway across the intersection before I realized anything was wrong. by...
View Articlewithout every moment
a cold rabbit is sitting down the sun is shining just through the clouds lately ive been walking real good i opened a black door do you know what time it isnt the president is alive the grocery store...
View Articlepoem to read on a fire
tomorrow all the people are replaced with tigers & they don’t need coats & there is more understanding, or less & they are good at stringing music down their spines & they breathe in...
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i am aperaham lincoln, i am unable to speak i meditate and thoughts crop up like weeds email dad, email rachael, email amanda i cried today while meditating, thinking, i am a bad son not that i think...
View Articlemixed nuts
i wish there was some way for me to change right now ?????????????????????????????????????????? there’s a girl in the newest american pie movie who is at one point topless i feel like there’s a fog...
View Articlespawn ashberry
while i was hanging out w angie she told me i could tweet her idea for a tweet, which was, “the best bigge smalls lyric is ‘linens and things'” i enjoy, while going somewhere w/ someone, stopping for a...
View ArticleNAVIGATE ME
Today I went to watch the water and wondered why I made everything so complicated. Maybe I can come back as a boat lapping on sunlit water on the first Spring day, waiting...
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walked outside and sang to myself “i dont recognize myself or my life anymoreeee” thought im not doing anything constructive self hatred all that shit THAT SHIT i drank a lot of juice i ate healthy...
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clean clean clean clean dont get rid of it cats hit things cats are hitters this is the part where we start punching each other so many bruises what happened it looks like i got beat up dont invite him...
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there is nothing to say im here frowning, floating biking, walking dogs showering, you’ve been gone for a week i am alone clean in bed always in bed feeding shrimps out of my fried rice to the kitties...
View ArticleLET’S PARTY TIL THE YARD SALES OPEN
people tell me all the time you could work @ party city people beg me @ least once a week wash away my iniquity, cleanse me of my sin we have been talking...
View Articleyoko ono
paul rudd is at IHOP explaining that his ex-girlfriend is ‘so goth-military’ while on a date with sarah jessica parker and his parents sarah jessica parker is wearing a green bra and you know what, I...
View Articleclarifying neutrality to salesmen
I am looking back at myself and that self is looking back at its self via my tangible self and the self that resides in my facebook profile picture two of which are definitely equal selves and each of...
View Articleanne sexton
today at work a woman offered me free chicken and I felt a sensation close to the reverberation someone might experience if they heard a large sound through their leg I am in bed now; this room is at...
View ArticleoK>
my mom and I discuss lena dunham and then browse the mace bottles on amazon, also a set of finger knives that look like a cat I think ‘this is so gorgeous-symbolic’ I say ‘I am so buying a yoko ono...
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Chapter 1 The universe started. Things were done. you look out your window trying to find likeness you can only find images. Everywhere. And the colors are nice. Chapter 2 You march unto the arms of...
View ArticleWHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU
A body becomes a prison like that. Certain chemicals cast spells in correct quantities. You don’t believe in ghosts – Well, you’ve never met my dad. A bad idea is blossoming somewhere under your skull....
View ArticleONE FOR BLAIR WALDORF
what a pretty pretty face what a convincing facsimile of a heart i grieve in the backseat and choke on the lights burning red white green kissing the concrete teeth of the stranger with his hand up my...
View ArticleMONSTER MOVIE
I have no mother I have no father I have no face My heart is an immaculate machine I love you so much I will knock over buildings I will eat you alive Look at my scales my wings Look at my shiny shiny...
View ArticleIn Getting to Know Your Skin
I mean, there was the deer, but of course there’s always the deer. Then when we stood in front of the trees in the back of my house for probably 30 seconds. I wasn’t counting but really it felt like 30...
View ArticleHarvest
I. When I am standing in this open field (with these open mountains and cows with their open tongues) it is like I can feel my brother in the corner of my left eye, like we are sharing a motel bed...
View Articlea study in the cautious medium
it’s night & the deer don’t sound. we are waiting for the slight tremble of a curtain, a flash of red bird, that flash of: we are both real & in the same precise bed, limbs touching like...
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I Will Always Be In Love (Day 1)
I don’t make out with dead boys anymore because they don’t kiss back. What am I even saying. What does it mean when smiles turn into the ones with hearts for eyes. Like context clues. Like one of the...
View ArticleI Will Always Be In Love (Day 2)
I can’t take a hint. Blind for nonsense, and eyes vulcanic. Feverish cheeks swell and my face illuminates yours. I want it to unfold but I won’t make it this time. Oily glaciers swirl, and burning air,...
View ArticleI Will Always Be In Love (Day 3)
Sexting via pataphor. Can you handle my allegory? Get your dictionary out babe, I’m flirting with you. by Alexandra Naughton
View ArticleI Will Always Be In Love (Day 4)
Feeling like the finest nun in the convent. Feeling like everything is god, like I want to marry everything. by Alexandra Naughton
View ArticleI Will Always Be In Love (Day 5)
I got dressed up and walked around Oakland with no purpose. I got dressed up and thought I am giving this coat a test drive. I got dressed up and walked alone and then finished a novel while sitting in...
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i refuse to wear the shoes i wore to the hospital to eat non-organic berries to piss in bars i won’t make decisions on the full moon anyway when my bed is red with my dizzy eyes i refuse to wear the...
View ArticlePORCH LIGHT POEM II
no, not prelude prelude prelude then: the brief mention of light no, not threshold after threshold then: the crossing over no, not silence cusping song but singing! everywhere! (the heart,...
View ArticlePORCH LIGHT POEM I
prelude prelude prelude then: the brief mention of light by Maya Owen
View Articlei’m afraid to leave my mind unwatched
i feel like the shadows will shift on my face any minute prompting the slow reveal of oh you don’t belong here by Caitlin Bosko
View Articlewhole thing
have i parsed the dark unacceptable planes of my identity effectively on all my social media accounts? or is it as clear to everyone as it is to me that even backed out of or clicked into or...
View Article@theoooeooo: selected tweets
Drugs in the morning lol I love that sleeping is free. I want to write a lot about sleeping I love it i love it I dont like doing things laughing so hard im so entertained by how much of an asshole i...
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