Sudden Onset Cyclops (SOC)
I woke up one morning cyclops The cheesebus came for me I hid I didn’t want to eat the other children & be someone they didn’t want to play with Went went went Found a cave Lived in it Ate...
View Articleeveryone is laughing because everything is amazing
we talk about empires as if they’re all gone now. those rise-and-fall dynasties, vast and toppling and vast again. look at all of this. look at this grass where you are not allowed to tread. look at...
View Articlei found all my copper coins in the dishwasher
i write ectoplasmic kissing scenes and substitute our names like a secret i am the only one to know. i am standing at the arcade penny-pushing but i have run out of copper coins. out of all the things...
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here we are standing very close to each other but in fact very far away like stars seen from my house. here we are our hands are almost touching you are saying everything in exclamation marks you are...
View Articlestrawberry yoghurt girl
the gendered body emerges from the womb. it cries, it breathes, jaundiced, destined to juxtapose and tumble and graze. she says oh my god, what a girl. the glass tends the copy, he brushes hair and...
View Articlei don’t want your sun in here
my skin does not want to be skin and i know i have said this before but my fingers do not want to be fingers and my eyes are itching and itching and saying, stars stars & stars & stars my...
View ArticleT.S. ELIOT GOES ON A DUCK TOUR
T.S. Eliot has this face he makes as if to say he is not angry at the world just disappointed He regards the surplus amphibious truck from World War II, now full of tourists. He...
View ArticleI’VE GOT A REGRET RIGHT NOW
feeling feel like tackling u in a loving way then feeling bad crying into ur shoulder blades then feeling better kissing u then hiding in a shirt kidnapping u and keeping u hidden in a large shirt...
View ArticleMortal, Like Reincarnation, Like On The Television, Like Don’t You Know, Like...
to accept it, to stand in front of it is a feeling i almost have, sitting behind my throat like a memory that may be true, may be empathy. i am distracted by the tragedy of your blues in your greens. i...
View ArticleI Promise You It Is The Acid In My Stomach, Coursing Through
there is the part of me that wants to bite you until yr blood paints my lips (no no no you nvr hurt me no i can’t be hurt no not by you no no), as if i am showing you something, as if you will...
View ArticleSometimes It Is Taken And Not Given You Know
I am spoiled milk I know it I know it but you taste me anyway and seem not to notice and I’m not trying to say that I am smaller than I am or that I am broken, but only that I see myself today and know...
View ArticleCAN YOU FEEL MY STATIC??
my hair is green until it falls on my desk with a coarse brown tip, but i guess that’s how it always is, really. everything feels like wading through snow right now, and my toes are cold but i can’t...
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Skin to skin I am neither here nor there Too close is still distant, nonexistent for now My hands know your anatomy so well When I trace my nails lightly against your skin, it is an act of mental...
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I am thirteen years old when my aunt sits me down and tells me that we all have demons, but that someday, someone’s will play well with mine I didn’t think she was right, but it’s been years, and while...
View Articlewhere we go
once i told you “the only thing i know for certain is that everything dies. everything ends” but you said “no the only thing that is really true is that everything changes”. we go away to a desert with...
View Articlewhat i got when i slept w/u:
two green parakeets perched on a chandelier, the best trumpet player in the high school band (scales on scales on scales), life on a boat, a map of the subway, a fifteen-year-old boy losing his...
View ArticleIt seems a time has come
I smell the fire before I see it, memory captured in burning hair once calmly collected metal bodies spit-slick cocoon their makers, encasing these flesh forms once alone, together two columns of...
View Articlefan letter #377
there is a pipe dripping in my bedroom. tell me, is this significant I think it has something to do with the development of mold (I think you would understand) once I thought I had a type, as though I...
View Articlea voice in my head said “YOLO” and I lost all my ice cream
what should be happening never is what’s happening so instead of writing ‘snow falls silently’ indicating that snow falls from the sky without making a sound I write ‘silence falls over the snow’ and...
View Articlewhat do you call a bear with no teeth?
I hear the parking services guy try to flirt with a member of the women’s basketball team. I never hear the answer but I’m pretty sure it’s a gummy bear it’s a who the hell cares bear it’s a luckless...
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