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Thank Christ For The Bomb
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I’ll Book That Therapy Appointment Soon
Anaphylaxis
Just So
Dancing with the protocols of chance
Staying
Shoot
77 Words About Last Night
Walt's Frozen Head
At a loss
grocery list
Confession
Cool Gray Redemption
Happiness
Frozen Chicken
The Problem with Pretty Girls
I Saw God in a Wheelchair
On Writing about Velveeta
University of X
The Murder of Crows
The First Soliloquy of the Interior Zombie
Biggus Bangus
Banana Creme Pies for Sixty Percents
No More Dogs
Cuss
You Wear Camo?
funereal boredom
Conch Shell
وكان فريق البيتلز جدا جدا جدا جيد جدا
Uncle Remus is Not Racist
Rewind
Milkshake And Fries
The Modern Man
Sickness
untitled
Dealing with Sudden Melancholy
A Kohlhaas international lass of stupidity at your service humanity!
The scientific structures and their material implications of post-cosmological existentialism, or nihilism goes on to an existen
The Loss of a Stitch
When I Was Young In the Suburbs
Horowitch and Twaddle
Executive sweet
Solution
My Grandmother's Wedding Ring
Cavity
12.22.12
A Definitive Saga Falls Upon Deaf Ears
The not so great Popsicle caper
Dogs
Tradition and the Individual Talent
In Swag We Trust
Black Eyes, Blue Tears, and Dark Thoughts
Erase Her
Manhattan
The seasons, it is said...
They Didn't Make It Ghazal
The Gruden
Dog Medicine
1,400 Degrees
Trailblazer Meets His Match [Card #20: Judgment]
What Remains
Contained
Ted Nugent Style-Wild, Part 2: So Much for the After Glow; Regression Towards the Mean is the National Standard
My Father Teaches Me To Drink Straight Shots
13 fragments of a somniloquy, overheard by a burglar lost in the basement complex on midsummer night
Empty or Too Full?
Adventures at an orgy
The Waves
Time and the Toolbox
Some Day Mars! or Bee Thankful
Crazy Later
Exes of All Sorts: A Punk Rock (and Stems of Punk Rock) Compilation
How to MC Your Niece's Wedding In Front Of A Four-Poster Bed On A Raft When All The Guests Have Given Names That Start With Z
Becoming an Author
Congratulations On Your New Diagnosis! (Greeting Cards for People With Mental Problems)
Almonds
Manfred Mann
At the Number Party
(or she)
A Dozen Rehab Knock Knock Jokes
The Watchers
Georgia on my mind...
TO MYSELF
Exasperation Management
Two Different Worlds
You Have Big, Gaping Holes in Your Life . . . But You're Trying to Work, Anyway [#5 of 10]
THE WEDDING
The King's Largesse
Bread
Brother
66 W
Lamenting Lexiconical Loss
My VaJayJay, The Homing Pigeon
A Fracas in the Memory Palace
Bird
Hard Ass Ghazal
Islander
A Bum and His Shopping Cart, Giving Up His Ways
COSMOGONY
Lines Written in a Honda Civic
You Have Big, Gaping Holes in Your Life . . . But You're Trying to Work, Anyway [#8 of 10]
Murder in the Fookin Bushes: A Tony Blair Mystery
Skype's Not for Losers. Really.
Coast to Coast
The Big Door Prize
HOW TO TELL PEOPLE WE SHOULD EVACUATE THE PLANET BECAUSE, APPARENTLY, YOU'VE BEEN INSANE ALL ALONG by Stephen Hawking
flash poem
Samosely
'MINESWEEPER': MY REASON FOR LIVING by Office Guy
This is our final rejection of your submissions.
Voice of the Century
Wired
SHARPEI! by Tao™ Lin®
Small Budget Poems
Liz@Phil
Running in the Rain
Obligations
Sit Down, Here.
Excerpt from 'Leanna Writes to Emma Forrest'
Secondhand: Four Inscriptions
The End of My Second Life
Milford the Tabby Cat
Cheerful but Awful
The Abduction
SKELETON SEX
Perfect Victim
A Well-Behaved Skeptic
Mitch
A Triple Moan of Descending Pitch
Pretending Veracity, History Winks
Wednesdays They Pay Us, But Now It's Thursday
Seventh Floor Ward
Perdition
A grocery list found in a pocket at the end of another story
October’s 13
Bands, Again?
Books and Mysterious Experiences
Parts
Staving-Off Active Inertia [Card #6: The Lovers (WORK-IN-PROGRESS — v.6)]
Brown Paper Bag.
Biograph 2
Staving-Off Active Inertia [Card #6: The Lovers (WORK-IN-PROGRESS — v.7)]
Security Notes to the Museum of Winter
Biograph 3
An Interview With Pere Ubu
Don't Leave Me Alone!
Swoon
Faces of Death Revisited
The Twentieth Floor
Prisoners (edited)
What the Dark Matter Says
If The Fire Is Not In Your Apartment
When Words Won't Wait
Memoir 2.1
Biograph 5
Apollinaire's Trepanned Skull
In a Quiet Place
Arrival
Incompetent Translation: Le Bateau ivre
Doin' Double-Time for Dead Weight [Card #3: The Empress (WORK-IN-PROGRESS — v.1)]
Modulus of Elasticity
20 Things I Learned about Norman Rockwell from "American Mirror, The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell"
MC of the SS
TWO STEPS
Regarding Bill Yarrow’s Assertion that Herrick Was a Voyeur (Poor Julia: Violated, but Immortal)
Luck
Floating Away
Charlemagne
The Midnight Stars of Flashback Recollection
Jorge Curioso Flies a Plane
Dick Cheney Confessionals
Prime cut
The Beatle Suite:7 Beatle Inspired Poems
Teenage Wasteland
Seed Toss
Dirt
Grace for Mao
Tell Me, Kind Sir
Take Your Gun to Work Day
Phantom Limb
Plan B
Cup of Trembling
holding it down
Notes for a Life. In a Swing. No Wind to Speak of.
How to Have a Fulfilling Sexual Relationship with Your Own Parents (Part One)
"Take twenty. Smoke 'em if y'got'em."
my first racist joke
Loose
The Tide
Cryptsville USA
Heart of Hearts
There Is Still Some Old Magic Bean Dip
Out of the Loop
1970
Chalk (Sunflowers) on a Sidewalk
Funhouse
The Birds
April, 1956
The balloon of you
Will Someone Please Put Dan Savage, Camille Paglia, Quentin Tarantino, and Marshall Mathers on an Island, Away from Us?
Being Old is No Place for Sissies
Death by Subtext (revised)
A Manual for Readers
Down on the Street
Who Will Wed This Woman?
LA Blues
Car Alarm
The Nudist Camp at the End of the Rainbow
Ten Little Indians
BUTT MEAT
Your Tits Make My Feathers Fall Off
Phenomenology as Snapshots
50
The Gypsies
For the young couple in the stairwell passed on my way to teaching Medieval World Literature
Ms. Pac-Man, on Posing Nude for Playboy™
Modern Teleology
The Tiger I Shot
The Mirror Tires of Looking at Itself
Mercurius' Hipster [Card #1: The Magician (WORK-IN-PROGRESS — v.1)]
you're a james now. here's what to expect:
Who Loves the Sun?
Brace
The Model
Right of Spring
once upon a time in Sumeria
After Drinking At McSorley’s
Return Trip
Relic
some precursors of Mantegna
To Do Reminders
A Satisfied Customer
Nightmare
Space
Drive-by Neighborhood Fiction Flash
Make Music, Not Love
A Night Ride With the Conservative Poetry Enforcers
The 14
Help Support My Attempt at Being Funny
Long Sticks Are Often Useful
A Whole Forest Full of Leaves
In the Stream of Space Expanding, Eddies
First Shot (36)
Crystal-Blue Persuasion [Card #2: The High Priestess (WORK-IN-PROGRESS — v.3)]
Pretty Face
Vigil and Prayer
The Innocence of Age
Lips of an Angel
How To Break A Toe In One Easy Step
19.
Unknowns
Life as a Porno
Moments of Movement
Drought
Note To Self
If "1984" Had A More Upbeat Ending.....
Old Vibrations
Awaiting What the Afternoon May Bring
Brief Studies of Doomed Females
Moving On
Something Horrible Has Happened
1957: Kathleen Eulalie, Widow
Europe
Polite Grafitti
Ten Books That Have Stuck with Me Off the Top of My Head as I Make Them Up, #2
Angels in the Margins
Decided
John Ruskin doing a Swan Dive
take
Human Kind Can’t Bear Very Much Reality
Honey
Father Dunne's School for Wayward Boys #4
Safe
Funny Jokes
Ronald Reagan Loves Astrology.
Pox Americana [Card #4: The Emperor (WORK-IN-PROGRESS — v.5)]
Source Code
First Shot (57)
The Shop Girl
The First Heart Attack, or What Happens to Your Daughter When You Die for a Little While
Rwanda Suite: Slim
Dilemma
Head Over Feet.
I've Got a Secret
Bus Ride Through SF
Hank and Nettie
Dog Days
The Light After Equinox
Protein Transfer
Damned Writers
Apartments
Déjà Vu Sur l’Herbe
Three Micros
Stranger than Paralyzed [Card #10: The Wheel of Fortune (WORK-IN-PROGRESS — v.4)]
The Blue of Milk
How the Body Prepares Itself
Bacon's Blood (3)
Then, But Not Now
Philip Guston Painting of the Courtroom
When Birds Do Not Fly
Teleprompts
3 short poems
The Story of the Wendigo
Two Little Fictions
Lip
Stupidest. Film Director. EVER!
Love Tracer
Oblique in an Acute New Century
Ineluctable
G.
Office Visit
Sausages
Night Moves
Z Machine
U R Doomed
Elevator to the Angels
The Mayor
Sleep Soak
Pandermonium [Card #15: The Devil (WORK-IN-PROGRESS — v.1)]
Ballerina
War Stories...
Pandermonium [Card #15: The Devil (WORK-IN-PROGRESS — v.2)]
Very Short Stories And Pictures Of Ducks
Bacon's Blood (18)
Dumb Luck and the Fall of Empires
Glad the Moon Worked the Night Shift
Little Tech Puppies In the Artisan Beer Hall
Pharaoh
Vitamin D
Three Stanzas Ending with a Line from R. Crumb
Crumbling Stones Crush Our Self Esteem
[Noon. A, b, C & D.]
Republican Presidential Candidates Haiku
Bacon's Blood [24]
The Nude Pianist: A Novel: Chapter 8
Baby Carrot
The bridge
Remedy
Just Stopped In For A Raspberry Slushie
Handy in a Denny's Parking Lot
Note from the wilderness
It's the New Age of Bullshit
Kimchi Hatchet
He Brings Things Closer
chicken coup
Honey & Darling
Not Good Enough
Of Roses and Hyacinths
Suicide Consulting Hotline
Peterson Park
77 Words About Saturday
Poem for the Poet
The Kept Man
A Sometimes Niggling Notion
Wallflower
Granny's Reform School Weekend Intensive Workshop, Session One
Swim for It! [Card #18: The Moon (v.1)]
Fear in a Handful of Dust / National Poetry Month 2015 30 Poems
Saga of the Sugar Ants
After Watching Zardoz
Bacon's Blood (32)
American Triptych
Uninscribed Tablet
LUPUS
Reversal
I Did Not Write This
The Flintstone Variations
Optical Delusion
Help Me Rhonda
Curse at Your Smoking Gun
When you were nine
Ancestry.comedy
Pretty as a Pictogram [Card #17: The Star]
My Relationship With Reading
The Road
In Tongues
Ennui of Wings
The secret meaning of celebrity
Span
No Alternative
Our Story in Ten Photographs
Postcard from the Asylum of the Nameless
The Cosmos as Gerunds
Making Conversation in a Bar Making Soap Into a Bar
Vain Boasts and Confessions in Descending Mode
Chinese Whispers (or Telephone)
Begettings
A Red We Hope Is Not Of Earth
Mother Died Tomorrow
3 Kids
Berlin Terror
Shadow Self, Schmadow Self [Card #5: The Pope (v.2)]
Fun Times at the Memorial Park
All Of These Eyes.....
Bacon's Blood (47)
Reds and Blues
Inspiration at the Edge
Bacon's Blood (49)
Love Song Number 277
One Man Caught in a Multitude of Self
a face made of glass
October
Glen Beck: Limp-Dick Detective [Ch. 4]
Scene One
Chocolate Diamonds
A Language in Decay or the Progress of a New World Vernacular
The Dead in Paris, Complete
Fucking Origami
That One Time We Were on NPR...
Naming the Beauties
One Dead in Violent Crash
Relative
a poem by Darryl Price restructured by Samuel Derrick Rosen
Central Washington State On Five Dollars A Day
Rain (a sense of her)
Confetti Bomb
The Seagulls of Sauchiehall Street
From the discovery of fire to a crypt slash restaurant
One Finger
To The Audience Members Who Chatted During The Recording Of Bill Evans Trio Live At The Village Vanguard, June 25, 1961
There is no such thing as stillness
Something Else
You are not Medusa
Sinking in Half-empty Glasses
wild gesticulations below a jasmine moon
The Mythology of Rooms
...love is just a sundog...
Snatch (XIV)
City Chambers Masquerade
The technological Judas delivers no kiss
Something's Wrong
What I took to be God
Do not speak of love or death
Suddenly Jonathan Franzen
Stockholm Syndrome in Glasgow
Because
Death's Honesty (Ch-2)
Suicide Machines
Mindspeak
Where is Vincent Price when you need him?
The Laughing Buddha is Stuck Inside a Time Capsule
Seven Haiku for Sad and Scary Times
Danger Above, Danger Below
Seven Things I Learned About David Letterman from Jason Zinoman's "Letterman: The Last Giant of Late Night."
Love?
Snarket
the ethics of graffiti
I Took Part in 5 Orgies, Which I Liked, and Got Pounded into Shit
Honoring Heritage
The Karaoke Girls
Face to Face
Lucky Strike
Because...
Regarding Viet Nam
Neediness, Incarnate
She's Up a Level
Starry Night
'MY DICK IS SO HARD FOR JESUS!' by Christofascist Jones
15 Minutes of Sordid Fame, Stretched to Infinity: Introducing My Net Stalker, Uri Tenpo (creative non-fiction)
far beyond
Hard Times
An Interlude of Stephen Miller Thought
George Martian (psych eval)
Sorting It All Out
Voices of the Dying
Not Making Heads or Tales
The Year of the Horse
Washing
The dream diary of Anna Perez - page 63
Yesterday
The 4 Stages of Life
Old Man in the Tub with MacGyver
My Life on Discord
Popeye
A Measure of How Far Behind We Are + Anecdotes from Recent Rambles
a good ending
I'll find you - A Dedication to Mathew Paust
Appearance
Signs
Tiny Window
Lingering Over Language
Colors of the Last Bright Morning
Maybe there’s something on my glasses
Working at a Truck Stop Outside Charlotte
Transformations
Late July
Waste
Being Generic.
Tangled Up in Glue
Fungi light/ Fungi Language
R.I.P. Ann Bogle
Trees and Strangers
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