Most read stories

Fungi light/ Fungi Language

10501050 views77 comments55 favs

I'm sitting in the dark of my own kitchen, because it is dark outside, not from night but from clouds. I guess that's where I'll start talking from. This isn't about you. I'm not sure it's even about me. It's probably about the…

Slightly Broken Sonnet

10501050 views00 comments00 favs

It's late it's early love youfuck me the difference isin the garage boxes sitbehind me in the trunklike passengers beside melike pedestrians in frontof me I choose our directionwhat stays what comes whatis what and how did I end upin the garage in the first placein the…

Mischief

10501050 views00 comments00 favs

If you don't want to die, go fetch me a pie

Blind Spots

10501050 views11 comment00 favs

He was twisted...

A Friend To Outlive

10501050 views00 comments00 favs

I didn't much care for the graveyard anymore now that so many people I knew where layin' in it.

how to find the gold-capped ocean

10491049 views33 comments11 fav

I didn’t know how to find the gold-capped ocean. How was I supposed to know where it was? I only knew you did not want or expect me to follow you there, where the orifice to everything withers, including my heart. Openings from the rivers drying in the

The Progeny

10491049 views00 comments00 favs

1I looked through the window of the drive-thru into the customers vehicle. There, encased in a ton of metal and plastic, sat a balding, rotund man in his mid-forties with flesh that resembled cookie dough sprinkled with beads of sweat. Not only did he defy physics by…

We The Kings

10491049 views22 comments00 favs

when the jewels weren't on his head; they were in his eyes.

Vertigo

10491049 views00 comments00 favs

Manicured to a T

A Small White Cloud

10481048 views44 comments00 favs

Has anyone reached inside your eyes lately? Has anyone searched for your soul as it floated near the ceiling of the past? Has anyone told you they needed you to touch them, to lie down beside them and breathe, just breathe, and live wherever it is that ma

Summer Party Advice, From Father to Son

10481048 views33 comments11 fav

“Madras shorts with those candy-ass Brooks Brothers shirts? If you wear stripes with plaids, you’ll look like a TV test pattern.”

Can You Imagine?

10481048 views00 comments00 favs

“Can you imagine what we could have accomplished, if we would have just gotten all the fuckin out of the way?” says Doug Stanhope, one of my favorite comedians, and one of the most brilliant, harsh straight to point utterances, I've heard from anyoneWe…

gravelortian part 19

10481048 views00 comments00 favs

Uproot everything, a muddy hole when done

Hysteria

10481048 views1313 comments55 favs

My sacred boxes contained this information.

Market Day

10481048 views1717 comments88 favs

I'd rather slit my wrists with a Triscuit...

“Kait” the homo sapien

10471047 views33 comments33 favs

I am an animal on display in an old fashioned zoo - trapped & violent, violent, violent

Holiday

10471047 views00 comments00 favs

My guy was Croatian. I sought an Italian.

Indestructible

10471047 views88 comments22 favs

With furrowed brow, he took the plastic stems and began to beat the blossom ends against the black brick wall.

again that summer

10471047 views44 comments11 fav

And there was Kathi R in the summer of 1969. She was from Wheaton. We had tons of unprotected sex that summer. She was short, almost no breasts, but man, she could reach down behind me somehow and grab my balls at precisely the right moment, and bam, ba

The Depth of the Dust

10471047 views99 comments33 favs

Can anyone remember what the Great American dream was?

This Is Really Living, She Said

10471047 views22 comments11 fav

She bought herself her own apartment That was when she told me I have a hard time getting out Unless it’s really important like work I told myself wake up early Get some coffee, but I oversleep I had a massage therapist come to my house

Europa Sonnets - 5-8

10471047 views44 comments11 fav

5. To hate one's race is always overrated;We built fair cities where there were no huts.The Frankfurt School should all have been castrated,And strung up by a noose made of their guts.Marcuse, you have caused the death of Europe,With Gramsci, Adorno, Freud and all…

One Brief Moment

10461046 views00 comments00 favs

I have sat aside and entertained the coveted feelings of what was not in my hands. Only briefly, a moment shared of hidden secrets and joy. But of and between us, I cannot say that this moment is a considerable spur-still I desire…

What She Left

10461046 views00 comments00 favs

I'm on Cloud 9.

Camelot

10461046 views22 comments22 favs

“Oh, where are you going to, O tow-haired rover?” Though my sight turns nowhere homeward, and my mouth's run numb, I can hear a leaflet sifting through the walls of clover; Though I stay, I ‘m going forth and o'er to Camelot, come- On a four…

The Affair

10461046 views00 comments00 favs

Mine lasted 90 days. But don't they all? After we made love the first time, it was early November, I remember, some internal part of me shot upward with a laughter that would not stop. Something…

Going Home: 1937

10461046 views99 comments55 favs

yeah time travel

The Lies You Tell Yourself

10461046 views22 comments00 favs

I am skinniest in the morning. My belly forgets the previous day’s sins, and I wake up looking taut like a model. Then it starts.

cheap idol of possession

10461046 views00 comments00 favs

And how the stars in your eyes exploited you. And the pollen-bearing moon shows its sex, and the years open their cards and splay them out on the table for all to see. And you come home from all the nipples of your Trojan Wars like Ulysses, and lie down

Can I Get a New To-Do List

10461046 views33 comments11 fav

I got a male bouffant hairdo like Trump I can’t wait to develop patience And the next time I have a ringing in my head I’m not going to answer it Can I Get a New To-Do List? I tried changing my name to Richard Vixen Until the State Dept. too