Most read stories

Man on the Moon

12571257 views22 comments33 favs

I even listen to the Ugly Kid Joe version. I fall asleep perplexed and disheartened.

the genes of Edouard Manet

12571257 views33 comments33 favs

was entering into a new phase of its existence, a peculiar paradigm of the wider world where, presaged by science, economic and political ideologies were conspiring to displace the old verities of religion and aesthetics, but where…

Some Things Can't Be Fixed

12571257 views88 comments77 favs

Orchids strewn over the floor...

She mentioned prayer in the Øilslick.xxx ZipperPoems

12571257 views00 comments00 favs

We transplant helix° splices and shoot back to meet our former selves, zip the scrolls, and save the world. Then you said spin so I twisted my jumper over and over in endless folds like lips, like vaginas, like seacreatures

A Man

12571257 views00 comments00 favs

He was lit up faintly.Standing in a room of golden proportions (which is not saying a lot), he was one stood man (which is). The only lamp, a seemingly old neon, hanging short from its chains, shone darkly above none. None but a five-feeted glass plane, upon which glossy…

exile on and off the road

12571257 views33 comments33 favs

had I gotten home without knowing it? well . . .

The Fourth Prague Defenestration: 18

12571257 views11 comment11 fav

I went back to the Charles Bridge over the Vltava River and felt the plaque of the Wall of Gropers, and that was where we hatched our plan, in front of my ancestors. I could just feel their presence there. They would be with me, the Gropers of Prague.

Three Questions on Distance Running

12571257 views99 comments55 favs

Do you see the hot coals of doing? The way time sizzles or wilts…eat those coals.

My Life on Discord

12571257 views99 comments77 favs

I’m on Discord but I don’t know how to do anything.

Lady Gaga Via Richard Cory

12571257 views00 comments00 favs

Whenever Lady Gaga took the stage, We peons on the benches cheered for her: She dripped of jewels and paint, and blessed sage, Wore meat as the antithesis to fur.

The Buddhist

12571257 views33 comments22 favs

She is not centered, but she finds her way.

Edward Ogle the Dickinson

12571257 views33 comments22 favs

Hope is the thing playing checkers

Edward Ogle the fourth

12571257 views44 comments44 favs

Charted stars by the dozens / with a side of frizzle onions / dawn showers us with glitter.

afternoons

12571257 views99 comments22 favs

i think god composed afternoons with crayons

The Second Confession

12561256 views33 comments11 fav

Most people come to dislike me because of the things I say.

The Madness of Mass Dance

12561256 views44 comments22 favs

Outbreaks of mass communal dancing—sometimes referred to as “choreomania”—occurred in Europe with some frequency in Europe between the 14th and the 18th centuries.

Tidbit

12561256 views22 comments22 favs

By dawn, she is ready to hunt.

Poem before Video Store

12561256 views77 comments44 favs

Last night was full of little fists

Message

12561256 views00 comments11 fav

When the telephone rang the fallow fields we lay in years ago became distant countries, filled with falling stars. The distant country into which you had disappeared became a pistol with a single bullet in the chamber.

Dust to Dust

12561256 views44 comments33 favs

He began to chop the powdery substance and separate it into segments.

Zum is one instance of "um" herein

12561256 views1010 comments66 favs

Millennium jumped strumming lithium gum cumulative outnumber humiliated résumé jumpy instruments

My Daughter On Wolf Hill Farm

12561256 views11 comment11 fav

I survived as a brave thought,

The Script Sucks But the Special Effects Are Killer

12551255 views11 comment00 favs

Victor didn't want to be alone, so he phoned Sophie.

Five Million Yen: Chapter 17

12551255 views00 comments00 favs

-Someone could have boosted this easy as pie, Ben said to himself.

Myra's Cigarettes

12551255 views55 comments00 favs

I know from the experience of too many odd sideways glances that folks are seldom interested in my brand of observation. No one else seems to wonder how many commas there are in the library or how many other people own that exact shirt.

Retinue

12551255 views44 comments44 favs

the view is breathtaking here.

Widow Walk

12551255 views99 comments66 favs

She heads toward the end of the island and doesn't look back.

Downbound A

12551255 views22 comments22 favs

Fall came early that year. The edge in the air wasn't just the cold, raw wind cutting down the street — the unity and collective embrace briefly shared after September 11th had faded. The weight from…

A Girl You Couldn't Hurt

12551255 views00 comments00 favs

He started to concentrate on the music again. It was the album with the crazy picture of Monk on the cover, with a machine gun over his shoulder, a tied-up Gestapo officer and a female resistance fighter standing next to—a cow.

An Elevator Door Opens

12551255 views44 comments44 favs

What’s your favorite emotion? Mine is ripping the sky apart and standing on a star outside of time.