| 997  4  0   
 | “Your mother enjoyed apples and made you wear unfashionable pants; she was a bitch. From now on we eat only candy bars and we wear only shorts. But first, four hours of video games!” | 
		
		
			| 1157  4  1   
 | Whisper salutations to your irises  | 
		
		
			| 997  4  1   
 | She sat me down naked 
on a kitchen chair and fucked me 
in the dining room, hovering over me, 
then sitting down on top of me 
I was upstanding 
It was outstanding, raw, and exciting 
No children or adults around, or dogs, 
cats or birds, no goldf | 
		
		
			| 797  4  3   
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			| 1650  4  2   
 | There’s a problem with falling for a mostly straight girl. And by mostly straight, I mean, when you and I met at the Christmas cocktail dress-up party a year ago, you in red spandex with white fur trim and me in my straight-from-work black slacks and grey | 
		
		
			| 1214  4  2   
 | Does he pack you a lunch when you're  running late for work? Even when you're not running late? Does he  insist on regular medical check-ups, for which he'll pay because you  don't have insurance?      Will he disapprove of your  objectionable behavior, and not turn the… | 
		
		
			| 128  4  3   
 | Overheard from the back seat of car: | 
		
		
			| 1418  4  3   
 | It is within my nature, and many others I know, to cling to what’s consistent and certain: the battles fought in the war for survival and the organic camaraderie borne in the trenches. Sometimes the quest and the people we commiserate with along the way  | 
		
		
			| 1261  4  4   
 |                                   The young boy woke to the sound  of laughter. He blinked himself out of deep sleep and allowed… | 
		
		
			| 2007  4  2   
 | I watched haunted as my pearl tooth circled the rotten porcelain sink. I could feel my hair thinning and my pale skin suddenly felt too loose. | 
		
		
			| 2228  4  2   
 | The first band I was ever in was called the Coming Cunts. Coming wasn’t spelled with a “u” because we thought the phrase would come off too transgressive.  | 
		
		
			| 1610  4  3   
 | 1. BLAME THE PARENTS    This seems to be the most  popular position on social platforms. Mom and Dad should have been watching  this kid more closely. Period. Because how could any good parent fail to notice  their own child climbing over a… | 
		
		
			| 2423  4  1   
 | "There's a dead mouse in the toilet!" | 
		
		
			| 1679  4  1   
 | I am a dog – four legs, a tail, a carefree enough manner, I do this, I do that, get into fights, sniff the ground and so on | 
		
		
			| 1868  4  2   
 | Dale of the threadbare corduroy blazer and the same two plaid button-down shirts, of the unkempt beard and short-shorn hair and holed ears, the plugs overloose and then lost so that the effect was not a toughening edginess, but deformity, the same self-in | 
		
		
			| 1617  4  5   
 | But the world is smaller when I see it / 
from the crook of your neck. | 
		
		
			| 1361  4  3   
 | Philosophy: a muscular exercise of throat, jaw, tongue, and brain. | 
		
		
			| 975  4  4   
 | I was at the bend in the road 
thinking of Robert Frost 
but there was no fork, 
there was no yellow wood, 
there wasn’t even a horse 
to ask me why or what if 
There was no decision to be made 
just a thousand tourists from Prague 
 | 
		
		
			| 1269  4  2   
 | Depression had Frank in its craw.  | 
		
		
			| 1046  4  4   
 | This is the hole I fell in. I can sort of crawl out of it now, but I must have fallen fastasleep in there. Does it really matter if it was for a long or a short time? Everyone is suddenly gone like a smile and replaced lately by sadly different versions… | 
		
		
			| 1355  4  2   
 | theme songs for concentration camps!? | 
		
		
			| 1215  4  3   
 | YOU cross the park as the evening gathers, the  playground is deserted, streetlights spark up orange beyond the trees that veil  the main road. You feel your journey pushing at your back, the last scraps of  the energy of a train hammering north.    At the  far edge of… | 
		
		
			| 1241  4  4   
 | Robert Frost told me that life goes on, but that’s just not good enough for me and for God’s sake it shouldn’t be good enough for you either, should it? | 
		
		
			| 1680  4  2   
 | He returned to America on the Fourth of July.  Twisting in his cramped window seat miles above the Atlantic, he buckled up before the descent.  “You can handle this,” he muttered.  Hungover, still reeling from the dreamy head-turning experience of… | 
		
		
			| 813  4  4   
 | Amused yet? It doesn't matter and that doesn't meananything. But eternity in hell is just another knifethey use to keep you looking in the wrong direction. We can have fun. Please don't let them break your heart like that. They do their jobs because they no… | 
		
		
			| 1270  4  0   
 | Koo ate the sad, bitter pills just so she wouldn’t have to try and make small talk about La Donna’s deformed, retarded kid. | 
		
		
			| 1069  4  2   
 | I had laid my hand down hard upon a long forgotten shard of an old coke bottle.
The cut is deep. | 
		
		
			| 964  4  4   
 | Hanging out at the
Imaginary Friends Café
with all my imaginary friends,
poets, itinerant musicians, etc.
 
Writing close to nothing.
Can’t finish a thought,
so I’m composing a book called
“Not Quite Haiku,”
 
which is unfini | 
		
		
			| 1362  4  0   
 | I had never seen anyone die.  For first time in my life, I was afraid, even more than when my step-dad got drunk and roughed me up.  When Dale Franklin got shot last year standing on the corner outside the laundry-mat it took the ambulance forty-five minu | 
		
		
			| 2148  4  0   
 | The large black pedals on the red/Tricycle rotate, push along the cracked,/Weedy surface. |