Most read stories

Woman at the Bar

13971397 views1010 comments11 fav

I saw a woman / at the bar tonight

Drowning By The Pool(2nd Revised Version)

13971397 views66 comments66 favs

The entire room seems waiting for me like an octopus behind a closed, chained door. The monk of the lamp knows he will get his daily turn-on if he prays loudly and just enough for it. The favorite chair has my blue dent in its punched…

A Small Piece of the Night Life

13961396 views22 comments11 fav

It made him feel better to imagine she was someone else, someone he didn't know. This comfort bothered him

The Edge

13961396 views44 comments11 fav

You're riding on the edge The edge of life and death Popping pills Shooting thrills Snorting coke and meth Running fast from it all Heading for a fall Needle in your arm What do you care Who does it harm Looks change at will With each and every pill …

On The Way To Shabriz

13961396 views00 comments00 favs

these dead letters for you... and then they withdrew... something happened on the way to shabriz... my fingertips fell on their knees.

Metropolitan

13961396 views22 comments11 fav

Metropolitan I. Atlantic harbinger of this our swaddled dawn: Mistaking moon's sea sweep for this the frown The sky's plain-countenanced creatures maytimes weep Upon the surface-sundown of our lawn, When gaily surfaced for…

Black Friday Crime Scene

13961396 views55 comments33 favs

Her name was Christine and she was nailed to the cross of their lust and their greed, and their vengeance

MARTIAL LAW - LOCK DOWN IN PARADISE

13961396 views00 comments00 favs

Six just left to drive 8 hours thru the jungle. They’ll emerge in a year in military guerilla uniforms. One guy threw up getting in. A friend writes, “I started a Free Mike Todaro Campaign. Hope to raise a couple of hundred dollars. We will, of co

Small Boat Row Told Through a Roughed Out Dungeon Window

13961396 views55 comments55 favs

The princess knew exactly where to find the annoying gurgling frog of her childhood, but she wasn't wearing the right shoes to step onto lily pads with, so she decided there and then to take a stolen boat out onto that soft mission, all by herself instead. It was a…

In Which Mad Dog Kicks French Women's Bony Butts

13961396 views11 comment00 favs

If Mad Dog were interrogated by female U.S. forces in a combat-riven no-woman’s-land to see if he was really an American, he couldn’t name the most recent WNBA champion.

77 Words - Barfly(s)

13961396 views22 comments11 fav

Things that happened, were said, acted upon at twilight or later.

Blue Crabs

13961396 views22 comments00 favs

The perfect murder, and it’s not even murder.

Alice in Hell: 13 slithy variations

13951395 views22 comments22 favs

1. Having made Alice from one of the Mad Hatter's ribs, Humpty Dumpty told her she could do anything, except speak. “How bothersome!” she said.2. In the church, Alice was horrified to be presented with a talking lamb. “EAT ME!” it bleated and, as the…

A Harsh Pep Talk

13951395 views55 comments33 favs

You are nothing but a generic white man with average looks and intelligence, trapped in an indie romantic comedy. You sit in your overstuffed coffeeshop chair, drinking an impossibly befoamed cappuccino, the sleeves of your flannel rolled up to your elbows, mellow synth…

Getaway

13951395 views33 comments00 favs

She’d picked him up at a party freshman year, calling him Danny. Until then he had always been Daniel. He’d said nothing and his name was changed.

(children, children)

13951395 views55 comments55 favs

Her name was Carrie. And yes, it was love at first sight. Yes, she was a client, and you were supposed to keep your hands off the clients. Everyone in real estate knew that. She came into my office and took a seat in the reception area. I had a listing on Cedar…

The Condescending Skies of June

13951395 views22 comments22 favs

I have become a prisoner of my own fractured mind/ A paranoid weirdo behind the horizontal bars of window shades

Delusions Well-Hid from Myself

13951395 views33 comments33 favs

Today, I am almost entirely self-coincidental, though I still feel a lag lurking somewhere.

Dramarama and Acid Wash Jeans

13951395 views00 comments22 favs

Looking down you wonder, when did I eat pineapple? and Am I really this awesome or am I a facsimile of something that really sucks, even if it's that 'it's so bad it's good' kind of thing? Nope, it's just bad.

pink sizzle rizzle

13951395 views00 comments00 favs

if you have a key fob, you are fired. If you have a real set of keys, you can stay

Golden Dawn

13951395 views22 comments00 favs

Rose would have preferred to survey the wreckage alone, between sips of her earl grey, but the morning light drew her attention to blonde and jet black curls weaving into folds of fabric.

The Glassblower

13951395 views66 comments44 favs

His beloved are paper-thin when he blows into the free end. Green tint from copper.

The Class of '61

13951395 views66 comments44 favs

My head is nailed to yesterday.

Lullaby for a Dragon Baby (for Josephina TuTu Waring)

13951395 views77 comments33 favs

Lullaby for a dragon baby who breaks the bough with bottled fists escapes the armored cradle stealing swords from terra cotta men to slash the Ming canopy and loose the butterflies that will free Ho Chi Minh from the fire.

"you: the size of"

13951395 views44 comments44 favs

The face is made of cracks that move with and from what it witnesses. When I let a thought out, your face cracks too, kind of dramatically. I didn't mean to share it, you press about it though. I think of everyone else who has cracked or cracked someone else and it doesn't…

Not Writing

13951395 views55 comments33 favs

I don't look like other poets. / People hardly believe it when I say / "I write poetry, sometimes. / During lonely evenings."

What He Delivered

13951395 views55 comments44 favs

On Learning a Lover Died a Suicide

13951395 views44 comments33 favs

I got the news that you had died as I was eating American chop suey, watching the Celtics.

Third Shift

13941394 views44 comments22 favs

Some great, doubtless precious; some hollow, likely empty; some only shards, but you never know...

Shovels and Honeysuckles

13941394 views22 comments11 fav

When she would leave my pillows still smelled like her. I would just inhale her for hours afterwards, sex and honeysuckles.