Most read stories

The Runaway Train

10251025 views11 comment11 fav

Me? I was a runaway.

Pigeons Have Copied Your Brain

10251025 views44 comments22 favs

The Pope is too busy shopping for clothes to control your brain.

Drunken Terrorists Act

10251025 views99 comments44 favs

They asked each other at Court-suggested AA meetings: What can Texas do but throw us in jails already packed with low-life scum?

Broward County Love Song (flaxen from the sun)

10251025 views00 comments00 favs

If the little buildings had hair the hair was as if sleeked back some and also flaxen from the sun. Men walked past there and of course women also all in the requisite wear of the world. We dashed felt pens on curb-sides writing our names in the world and way in behind…

Navigating Iota

10251025 views00 comments00 favs

I never thought that I would be here

The Pit and Philip Guston

10251025 views44 comments22 favs

Above the chasm of life burn two fires at either side of the framed painting that stands on the pink and red plain. And inside the painting itself an orange rain falls, accumulating in a sea of red. Rocks can’t stand their small shadows anymore

The Progeny

10251025 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…

A speck on the wall

10251025 views22 comments11 fav

I’m leaning into my freedom and will have you take your portable prison with you and you can set those four walls across town.

1978 What I Wanted

10251025 views33 comments22 favs

What I wanted was to rewind the film

The Love She Can't Find Pt. 1

10251025 views11 comment00 favs

She's a woman who travels often. Maybe for work. Maybe for mischief. She's a "free spirit" trapped by her desire for love. But she numbs it with the warmth of a new man's touch. She leaves herself reminders that often fail her or remain inconsistent. She wants to…

ruination rumination

10251025 views44 comments33 favs

a ruminating marsupial? if so,/ I guess I’d be a kangaroo, the cud soured/ and pasted to the tongue . . .

Can You Imagine?

10251025 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…

Let the Fat Man Sing

10251025 views00 comments00 favs

For every Ruben Studdard, there are ten Mick Jaggers and, considered merely in terms of avoirdupois, the two sides of that scale would probably balance.

Shots Below the Brow

10251025 views1010 comments77 favs

His self-assurance says/ he’s practiced in the art/ of self-deception

The Silent Service

10251025 views00 comments00 favs

Anxiety masked.

Europa Sonnets - 5-8

10251025 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…

86.

10241024 views99 comments00 favs

It was late and Manhattan wasn't going to wait for us to wake up. We stumbled off the train — a few puffs of smoke left in our lungs and perfectly disheveled hair that made us look like we were comfortable with our anxiety.Steps weren't getting any easier…

Ten For The Devil

10241024 views00 comments00 favs

Horses pulled carts loaded with valuables at backbreaking speed. King Street was one of the steepest in the city making the steeds’ task most difficult in deed. Their chest covered in foam and their eyes wild with fear. Their clattering hoofs gripped

Grateful

10241024 views66 comments55 favs

What I had liked about Harvard before it showed itself in psychocareerist TV appearances and lid-down disingenuous printed psychotopical drills for maintaining crass privilege was the description online of its linguistics department.

Caleb

10241024 views22 comments11 fav

CALEBHe'd get up every day,don his clothes and tendto rote ablutions. He tried not to think too much.Because he knew what that would bring --the tethers he lost; failed causes,the last lover, who knew some things.Instead, he kept his eyes straight ahead,marked time,…

Event Particle (8)

10241024 views11 comment11 fav

Forgetting fractures her body into a vast flower of fragments

Vertigo

10241024 views00 comments00 favs

Manicured to a T

Wait room

10231023 views44 comments22 favs

It was Saturday morning."The coffee maker is not ready yet," said one of the old men. Like the present company, his form was swollen with mismatched layers of cold weather wear.It was a white room with a dozen men, three couches, and a large screen television flickering…

Indestructible

10231023 views88 comments22 favs

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

"Happy Birthday Marty"

10231023 views44 comments33 favs

The bum had abandoned More than half of his rich Chocolate cake In the bottom of the shopping cart The wording on the top of the cake read "Happy Birthday Doug" But it also read "From Doug" Either he was too full To eat his own words

I'll find you - A Dedication to Mathew Paust

10231023 views1717 comments1212 favs

Matt was among those rare creatures; an ideal kind of reader ...

One Night Stand Before Finals

10231023 views33 comments00 favs

There was one girl from Ireland, with her thick Irish brogue, who came into my bedroom early on the morning before my final exam for my Master’s degree in the writing program at U.C Irvine. She knew I was so nervous about taking the exam that I hadn’t sle

The Depth of the Dust

10231023 views99 comments33 favs

Can anyone remember what the Great American dream was?

3 Briefs

10231023 views66 comments66 favs

Everything is on Time’s menu

Can I Get a New To-Do List

10231023 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