Most read stories

On the Anniversary of My Grandfather's Passing

14451445 views22 comments00 favs

What I remember about my grandfather were his fart jokes. When he wasn't telling us kids about how young David defeated the mighty Goliath or how Saul the pharisee humbled himself to become Paul the Apostle, he was telling us about the baby burp that begg

Magnetic Soup Wagon

14451445 views11 comment11 fav

We may sniff a gush of something in the rush of heat round a petrol bomb. Or reap a gift from the cracked head of a hero.

Star Light, Star Bright

14451445 views1616 comments1212 favs

I am experience and information// at a small but irredeemable remove.

Jeans

14451445 views44 comments11 fav

Jeans. You passed yours along to me with some helpful tips.

EXHALE

14451445 views44 comments33 favs

An excited state with undiscovered borders, the almost space -

The Memory

14451445 views1414 comments88 favs

The old lady is losing her memory. She forgets people's names yet so familiar to her. A little sheepish, she takes her basket and walks to the village. Just like when her legs were young, suntanned, shapely and attractive. Along the footpath, by the shop windows, over the…

Molotov Cocktail Poems

14451445 views1010 comments66 favs

The new theaters require C-4 poems

Five Million Yen: Chapter 54

14451445 views22 comments11 fav

Ben was cheered to see Monique in good spirits again.

Mercury Unbound - 2

14441444 views88 comments44 favs

An infested, indifferent universe . . .

Luminous Nights, 2

14441444 views22 comments22 favs

The house where my brother lived up in the hills above Hollywood, looked like any other suburban house on any normal street Anywhere USA, except that once you got inside the house — spread out at your feet was a panoramic view over a canyon that was act

"they call me the midnight gambler"

14441444 views22 comments22 favs

That night I came as close to getting laid as I had ever come in my life, without actually getting laid, after two and a half hours of intense petting, begging her to go down in the front seat of my car, with her asking: Why? Why, Jerry? Why? That was a

Pros and Cons of Wildflower Collection

14441444 views00 comments00 favs

If it was truly new territory of the mind, he thought he might find some place that resembled the world as his dad envisioned it, having already decided that his father could never turn back across the frontier to the old world of youth

The Thrill of a Lifetime

14441444 views00 comments00 favs

I honestly can’t say, with Lynda, who cheated first. More than likely Lynda did, because I know she was pregnant when I came home from college for the summer (this was 1963) and we had to go out and find a doctor who would give her some pills to get rid

Finger Lost Finger Found

14441444 views33 comments11 fav

Little Roy Farrell'd taken a bite of his fourth grade teacher's ear as she bent close to help him sound out the word “grace.” Doc Felter had sewn most of teacher's ear back on, but by seventh grade Roy still couldn't read and never understood that he'd in

Goodbye

14441444 views22 comments22 favs

In the end, he knew he wasn’t going home.

I'll take anyone

14441444 views33 comments00 favs

Plus women can be really sexy when their horny and plump with baby envy. If I could make a hard-on I’d like to be around for that.

Landmarks

14441444 views33 comments33 favs

Play somethin’ solemn, they told me, or somethin’ that sounds like home or the mountains in summer.

Ready to Surface in All Respects

14441444 views55 comments55 favs

Our realtor is worried about selling our apartment. He believes it is a submarine. We cannot convince him otherwise. I agree that our apartment is a little small and more than a little cluttered. We have a lot of books. The sensation of standing or sitting in our…

It's really not the same

14441444 views1010 comments99 favs

It wasn't the same as taking a course with Ginsberg. Everyone knew Ginsberg. Nick Cave, too, everyone knew him. Waiting lists were full months in advance for those classes, everyone sent in resumes and writing samples, praying, begging to be included. Lish was just an…

Every Mirror with Two Sides

14441444 views22 comments22 favs

She was gazing down at her two hands holding the peach seersucker top, but without blinking she saw four hands—ahh, idiot, the mirror! But in the next moment no, it was four hands . . .

Odysseus Remembered

14441444 views55 comments55 favs

Years later Polyphemus still remembers the wine-soaked taste of Odysseus’s men. The barley and garlic-flavored Greeks. Their flesh a fibrous, blood-hued hummus. Their crunched bones releasing sweet marrow.

I'm a Clown in His Circus

14431443 views00 comments00 favs

He called me Jay. I called him Dr Corvid. Until the very end, we lived alone. We had no use for any other companionship. I was Dr Corvid's finest achievement until he perfected his Disintegration Ray. I was the first working prototype of Project Novus.Dr Corvid created me…

Billing Notice

14431443 views55 comments55 favs

Due to recent enhancements to our billing system, the rate per unit for your basic service can no longer be determined.

Five Million Yen: Chapter 59

14431443 views44 comments22 favs

Girolamo Dente was nodding off in his studio at Découvrir Art when he heard the alarm.

It's not heavenly light, b!*&#.

14431443 views55 comments44 favs

He stopped believing in God when he learned how balls worked. Spermatocytes turned into spermatids and spermatids turned into spermatozoa, the transition taking place in tiny loop de loops called the seminiferous tubules which contain at least three…

Me and Coleridge Take a Spin in the Phlegethon

14431443 views11 comment11 fav

Like so many high school drugheads I warmed up to Coleridge because he was an dope fiend. If you want to get young men interested in poetry it helps if you lure them to the art through controlled substances.

twelve tines

14431443 views22 comments22 favs

till the tiny death may we remain true, me and you, to our flesh and blood and sinew, the springs and silver in our tiny hearts with vicious teeth and a hard bone need to fuck

In the Air Tonight

14431443 views44 comments00 favs

But that last night in Europe, getting ready to fly out of Amsterdam back to the States, I heard this Phil Collins song, “In the Air Tonight,” which expressed some of the turmoil and confusion and whole-life hysteria I was feeling inside. Waves of fru

Airline Passengers! Is There A Right To Recline?

14431443 views11 comment11 fav

It's called the Knee Defender. But I prefer to think of it as the Schmuck Identifier.

2

14431443 views55 comments55 favs

Then I am in Washington DC impersonating an accountant.