Most read stories

Shouting the Muse Down

13091309 views00 comments00 favs

In the tumbled-down now there's too much material, culled from pretty boys that don't notice me and tattooed ones that do, and I'm certain there's at least one dreamer soaking eyes into me who knows all the twisted lyrics invoking pretty little horses.

I Don't Know Why People Still Read These Things

13081308 views55 comments33 favs

POETRY IS DEGENERACY / IS A DISGUSTING HABIT

Sarah Nell

13081308 views1616 comments33 favs

There are two, though, that stayed for more than just a little while: Marvin and Oscar. Marvin was married and that's all I have to say about that. Oscar wasn't and it seemed as though he wasn't planning on getting married either. What a petty man he was.

Botanical Garden

13081308 views00 comments11 fav

It looks like Arizona, like a desert with secrets. The bed unfolded and she was being good today. She would be good, no matter how he moved and laughed she would be a lady. The names of the flowers escaped her, flowers she'd always known. All she saw were waterlilies.…

Millard Fillmore, Dolphin Flayer

13081308 views00 comments00 favs

Last week I heard that there is a new horror movie out about Abe Lincoln, with the plot of the film involving the tallest of presidents hunting down vampire bats with his axe while suspending habeas corpus, writing lame speeches about the freedom of man, restoring the…

The Grand Inn

13081308 views22 comments11 fav

I saw blood. The walls of the bar were completely covered in red shag carpeting. Had I been thrown back in time to the Seventies? It felt as if I had entered Hell itself. No, this was not Hell. This was the Aryan-Brotherhood's version of the movie Shaft. I…

The Tall Man’s Secret

13081308 views33 comments00 favs

I turn the corner and come face to face with Ed, who's stark naked at the kitchen sink. He chugs a glass of hot tap water from a measuring cup and belches loudly. “Good morning,” he says, as he pisses in the sink. “I drink 6 cups of hot tap…

only connect

13081308 views55 comments22 favs

lift my love and be lifted

The Fourth Prague Defenestration: 1

13081308 views22 comments22 favs

Defenestration - the act of throwing someone out of a window. I went to Prague recently to visit my family’s castle, which is called Krivoklat. I’m not even going to attempt to explain to you how to pronounce that. It’s outside Prague, about an hour t

The Black Hole Cometh

13081308 views00 comments00 favs

A few months back, Bob Delaney, the old Black Hole’s man with the plan (and more importantly, the check-signing authority), hired a young new guy named Gary — who had the unfortunate last name, Indiana — as a geriatric nurse at Bufordsville Retirement Com

Flower Power

13081308 views66 comments55 favs

"Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels."--William Carlos WilliamsThere is something beautiful I want to say to you that doesn't seem to make much more sense in a box of clever words like this one. It feels closer to…

The Lonely White Elephant in Rome

13081308 views00 comments00 favs

the gambling priest stands in the morning fog/red moon hangs in the sky/the army of seven houses marches over the hill

The First of Many to Fade into the Now We Go Marching Down the Lane for Love Side Street

13081308 views22 comments22 favs

for Tracy ThornYou don't need a song about fixed stars, you needa reason to be glad stars are here. Themoon's always been around, but not always like the friend you want,until now. Don't throw it all away becauseyou are too sad to care. You've come into your own. Allthings…

Tea Time

13081308 views33 comments11 fav

But I sense a tremor in your soul as well, young friend, a yearning of some sorts.

Proud Mary

13081308 views11 comment00 favs

Mary had no shoes. She told me they were stolen by someone at the shelter and I believed her because she stood there outside the Arlington T stop in a pair of tube socks. She told me she wasn't asking for money. She told me the shelter was serving seafood today so her…

Micromanaged Truth

13081308 views22 comments22 favs

Let your father stay through that dinner when his mistress needed him, while your mother was on the verge.

During My Daily Commute

13081308 views44 comments44 favs

in moving cars i am small; in moving cars i am invisible.

First Things Go First And End Up Being Last (the Big Enough Picture)

13081308 views55 comments44 favs

I don't have to show you how to fly. I don't even know who you are still possibly trying to be in this crazy grounded world. But the words make us family. I can't help that or what you might do with that public tweet tweet…

Something Wrong

13081308 views11 comment00 favs

Her questions apparently had their desired effect.

An Angel at Christmas

13071307 views00 comments00 favs

Call it what you may but misfortune, bad luck, disaster, adversity and trials of different calibers can hit us at any time.We are human. We experience the ups and downs of life everyday. Out of a job, lack of money, health insurance and other luxuries that some people…

Beggars Banquet

13071307 views11 comment00 favs

When I was a boy and just out of seminary school, I went to a Doors concert and heard Jim Morrison sing his song ‘Soft Parade’ – it changed my life.

Edward Ogle the Andy

13071307 views44 comments22 favs

Concrete coffeecake drumbeat gyrate Andy Rooney ran a meter.

A Noir Celebration

13071307 views33 comments00 favs

A kind of sucking darkness into A kind of noir celebration of despair

Island Numbers

13071307 views00 comments00 favs

an island hidden in the sound holds treasure

To The Guy Who Sat Next To Me On The Flight Home From Amsterdam

13071307 views33 comments00 favs

I guess you felt more comfortable holding your Moby Dick

Worst. Party. Ever.

13071307 views33 comments11 fav

"The food tastes kind of...off."

Five Million Yen: Chapter 13

13071307 views00 comments00 favs

-That’s more like it. He released Ben and holstered his gun under his leather jacket.

In Dubai III

13071307 views22 comments22 favs

The boy in the elevator with round glasses, / who carried a newly-purchased broom, / was tall and burdened with clothes

Weld (St. Petersburg Blues)

13071307 views11 comment00 favs

There's one graveyard for the part-timers and another for the full-timers. Ours is a little nicer, but we're still all going to hell. Do you remember St. Petersburg? No, you're memory's not that good.

Orslan

13071307 views00 comments00 favs

After going to the garage and moving at least 4000 boxes of junk we found the coat rack. We wrestled it up the stairs to my room. I wasn't much help, but Dad was cool about it. I think he was just happy I liked the suit.