Most read stories

woke up in 2010//an exercise four years ago

12421242 views33 comments33 favs

I am from slow diagnoses, impatience and parents skeptical of New York City doctors. I am from tall buildings, yogurt shakes, and envy for my brother's asthma machine. I am from here, stay away from there, don't get too close, be careful at the edge, the…

No Dogs! No Dogs Allowed!

12421242 views22 comments22 favs

the impression I had gotten of him was that he was fifty percent yuppie and fifty percent drug dealer from Marin.

Release My Pajamas

12421242 views33 comments22 favs

And then I heard “Yea, for I have seen the Father The Son, and the Holy Toast” Okay now, something up was weird

Stop Sign

12421242 views00 comments00 favs

Made sense then, should have written it down - But I fell back to sleep instead

Meet Your Happy-Go-Lucky Poet

12421242 views66 comments55 favs

"Time is an ocean, but it ends at the shore. You may not see me tomorrow."--Bob DylanThey're writing poems, but not for me. Guess I'll write one for my own. For nobody that I know now. It's a pretty lonely world for someone who sings, not you, not with…

Superheroes

12421242 views55 comments11 fav

I change things without notice for himto make sure he's ready for the corporate world. It's no longer our goal to watch cartoonswe must now focus on breakfastthenaction figures. "But Daddy," he says. "I likecartoons." "I know it hurts," I say."But…

A Good Provider

12421242 views11 comment11 fav

She looked over from the passenger seat at her husband and smiled. It had been twenty years. She hadn't expected him to remember. She leaned over and kissed him on the cheek, placed her hand on his thigh.“We'll be home soon enough,” he said. He was not…

Stinking oil

12411241 views1111 comments44 favs

When were you flash frozen?

Why I Gave Up on Math and Began My Big Fat Writing Career

12411241 views88 comments22 favs

I’d met this crowd of drunken poets from San Francisco Even though this was smack dab in the middle of winter Smack dab in the middle of the flattened Illinois plains Why they all left San Francisco I’ll never completely understand But there we we

For the Record

12411241 views22 comments22 favs

As being ebbs it deepens. The mind grows truant. We inhabit a permanent Saturday.

Deep Pond

12411241 views11 comment00 favs

It wasn't the sun sparkling Or the dog of the neighbor Barking.

And then we... Part 2

12411241 views44 comments33 favs

The way I figure it, mom wasn't worth a shit. I'd cry when she hit me but she'd just keep pounding. When I was seven, she burned a hole in my back. It happened one day at the fair. We were walking around. She didn't have any money so all we could do was walk. I had…

Minneapolis

12411241 views22 comments00 favs

He will later claim he knows nothing of the girl’s disappearance and that I was the last one seen with her, which will unfortunately be true but not the real story…

Christ's Fingertips

12411241 views00 comments00 favs

they could be barefoot bastard children for somebody else to clothe

Bands

12411241 views44 comments55 favs

Soccer Tease Nerdvana Ballsa Wood Pulp Friction Spam Folder Fetal Position Wayne Newton’s Yacht Late Bloomers Sir Real Geese

Ben Clarone: Prologue Part 3

12411241 views22 comments22 favs

The urban-abused Chevy looked older than its seven years.

The Figured Surface

12411241 views77 comments88 favs

Number the herd. Number/ the baskets after harvest./ Note the reappearance of the moon/ after its short absence.

A Few Images Illuminating the Difficulty of Being a Young, Talentless Writer in Manila

12401240 views22 comments11 fav

A ten-ton bus with ill-manners going slow

Lunch, daily.

12401240 views11 comment00 favs

She’s not settling. She can learn to like this.

Her Sunday Story

12401240 views33 comments00 favs

She turned on the television. The newscaster was her husband. She changed the channel. Her husband interviewing her husband. She changed the channel. A baseball game. Her husband pitched to her husband who popped a fly ball which was caught by her husband

Dongs

12401240 views33 comments22 favs

[YOU BETTER BE READY FOR THIS!]

Sea of indifference

12401240 views00 comments00 favs

Sea of indifference Coming and going Never committing Like a fickle lover that erodes a hopeful heart

Orbital Mechanics/ National Poetry Month 2014/ 30 poems

12401240 views99 comments66 favs

Captain Nemo never died./ He cruises all the seven seas/ below the waves in Nautilus 2,

Now

12401240 views44 comments33 favs

I'm looking for the perfect/passage, a safe, sound/jettison to now.

Mr. Townsend Wakes Up

12401240 views11 comment00 favs

Mr. Townsend is a normal guy. He's been on auto pilot a while. When he finally snaps out of it, he's surprised at what he finds.

Coal Mine Pickle Jar

12401240 views00 comments00 favs

I can’t move - I try to move my arms - I try to move my legs - If I can scream then that will wake me up - I scream

BORDER JUSTICE

12401240 views00 comments00 favs

CHAPTER ONE About nine-thirty P.M. on Friday night, Mary Fowler pushed her grocery cart through the double sliding glass doors. It was three weeks before Christmas. The sun had set and the temperature had begun to cool rapidly in…

For You

12401240 views22 comments22 favs

Why should you go through that for me?

Mamba

12401240 views22 comments11 fav

How does Bandie feel about snakes? This is my thought. What good is a serpent without venom?

China

12401240 views11 comment00 favs

Your words broke meLike a china vase dropped to the floorAnd though the pieces were recoveredStuck together with love and compassionThe cracks are there for those who lookI was happy to be there, content in that placeYou wanting to be somewhere elseNever telling me where…