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Shuffling Deck Chairs on the Titanic

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He said he'd searched in vain for his wife, Mary, before abandoning hope and the ship in one of the last row boats. He was allowed in because of his experience fishing.

Snuggie your Life Away

19971997 views77 comments00 favs

Who is the moron that invented the Snuggie?

untitled

19961996 views55 comments44 favs

I am a sunflower. I turn my yellow and black face, bruised, to the sun, hoping its light will heal me. With my eyes closed I can see my stamen, veins in my eyelids, bulbous where they intersect. The sun feeds…

The Beat of Sorrow

19961996 views00 comments00 favs

See a girl like Lily sitting offstage in a wooden chair in a fourth-rate club somewhere, crying, holding on so hard to so little, and as it breaks your heart to watch; forgive me. Understand me. You can’t rescue us. We all deserve more.

The bridge

19961996 views1919 comments1515 favs

as long as you have some snacks up there I can be brave

Wind Drinks Time Like Wine

19961996 views1818 comments99 favs

but let's stop and take another look at things could it be through our closed eyes that we didn't really know what we were talking about that there never was a surprise

The Company's Sprinkler Heads

19961996 views22 comments00 favs

I am alive, and I am hungry. Angry, I want more. I am not content with what you're offering me. Forty hours a week, two weeks vacation. A mortgage and car payments. Wife and kids, a dog in the suburbs. It's all incredibly unexciting, unsatisfying.

One A.M. at the Beau Rivage

19961996 views1212 comments66 favs

After the show they talked at the famous comedian, reaching the way they do, with their arms. Their arms are curved a good way, a better way than the older white planes of my own.

Clay Women

19961996 views99 comments77 favs

"... I knew Willie had gone— out the back door or out the side window. I knew he probably slipped over the fence behind my house into Lou C.’s backyard..."

Please

19951995 views1414 comments44 favs

"What I need to wear the ring for," I said to myself, "I already got his last name..."

Those (Beckoning) Lights

19951995 views99 comments1111 favs

The understanding we made was neatly wrapped up in its own blue tissue cocoon like a neatly rolled joint and dumped unceremoniously into the forgotten past like a plate of leftover digitized lies. The lid was slammed shut. Time passes too tightly. And you …

Hold Your Shield, Front Guard

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Casting nets like Jesus to a metaphor sea Admittedly as weak as me But I need the hike, Like we still like Ike To tell us about the Military Industrial Complex Though he never told us what came next

My Affair With Tiger

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Face it girls, you want to claw my eyes out, don’t you? Or whack me across my 36 DD’s with a golf club, am I right? Well don’t blame me if I’m young, gorgeous, full-breasted and obviously the cat’s meow.

Brother Dream

19951995 views22 comments11 fav

It’s always daylight there My brother comes running down the sidewalk holding out his arms and calling my name He’s wearing suspenders. He’s gotten thinner in heaven He embraces me warmly wanting us to be friends I give up trying to re

Old Salty

19951995 views66 comments33 favs

Cap'n Pepper tries and tries but Old Salty is never happy.

Ingrid Bergman Answers the Call

19951995 views33 comments44 favs

Out the window is an empty birdbath, dry flaky concrete ring, no birds.

The Intercom

19941994 views33 comments11 fav

I have never met Joe’s brother, of course.

To Live It Again

19941994 views77 comments44 favs

She began guiding Penny’s arms, whispering movements through her body. Memory and experience sang through every fiber of their being. The song had become her life.

The Loss of a Child

19941994 views2424 comments77 favs

I watched as the light fled from your eyes, No slowly dimming lamp,

Still Life with a Bottle of Olives

19941994 views88 comments55 favs

On the table the image is by Chardin but the puzzle is by someone else and that is what he has dumped out of the box.

Time

19941994 views2121 comments1616 favs

Tell Bono I want my seventy bucks back.

Variation on a Variation of a Mode

19941994 views2727 comments1212 favs

Borges must be so proud somewhere

Woman

19941994 views1717 comments1414 favs

When you move to the music of a woman

The Field Guide: Olivetti

19941994 views88 comments33 favs

When you last produced writing on a manual typewriter, was it before or after your first sexual experience, or maybe during? Manual or otherwise. Which do you recall with more enthusiasm...

The Invisible Corpse Candle

19931993 views1616 comments55 favs

Her eyes stared wide with panic, her teeth chattered intermittently with impressive intensity, and with her ineffectual stabs at the air she completed the portrait of distracted mania.

Bedbugs

19931993 views00 comments00 favs

I'm in awe of her frankness, how she takes my breath away, how I wish to rush off with her to a splendid hideaway where only the two of us touch the grape-stained mountains and the cerulean sea, wild blades of grass quivering with the breeze. Sometimes th

Lule of Raw

19931993 views1919 comments88 favs

A discussion at the homeless colony under the expressway overpass crossing the river:

Bogdan

19921992 views1919 comments1818 favs

He was a tenth grade / messiah, famous for acts of attrition.

Veins Of Crazy Water

19921992 views55 comments44 favs

People tell me my personality is a drug. Could be. My shadow is a spine. And I have the current density of copper. A welcoming face. Opium eyes opium thumbs. The piccolo is parenthetical. …

Arcana Magi Memorial Vol.2 - c.1

19921992 views00 comments00 favs

No matter the guidance and support she received from her parents, her psychiatrist, and her friend; no matter how hard they tried to remind her of her humanity, Azure believes this chimera form is her true body now.