Steen Rasmussen YOU ARE You are the symptom And the disease You are the reason And the excuse Nothing makes sense When you’re not around Yet, it does us no good You hanging about And you’re just hanging about now Babies are born And old people die Accidents happen Disasters destroy You give me an […]
Read more "Steen Rasmussen ~ YOU ARE"FLYING FIRST CLASS ON A PLANE Cashed in pointsso I could do it once in my life.Lots of leg room.Comfortable back.Room at the sides.And attendant alwaysat the ready.Hid my facewhen the economy passengerstrudged slowlythrough the first-class cabinon their wayto the cramped seatsin the back.Couldn’t find the right expressionfor someone who wastaking a couple of hours […]
Read more "John Grey ~ FLYING FIRST CLASS ON A PLANE"Over The Edge I’m standing on the edge, at the very end, I’m at the very end as far as I can go without falling and I’m not sure where I’m looking, outwards over the horizon or inwards to some inner depth, the inside of something unclear. If I let myself fall where will I […]
Read more "Lynn White ~ Over the Edge"MODERN DAY GLADIATORS:A MODEST PROPOSAL Hey fans, I’m sick of these barnburners.heart-attack endings, last shot nightmares,even if your team wins, blood pressure rises,hearts palpitate, way too much stress.All you have to look forward to is the next game.Two hours of agony till the last second shot.Enough. Let’s do it like the gladiators of old,mano a […]
Read more "Vern Fein ~ MODERN DAY GLADIATORS:A MODEST PROPOSAL"Something to Lose Unlike the cars colliding head-on in the other lane, I still have something to lose. Silence in the snowy woods. Cats mingling in graceful curves. Dogs smiling like celebrities. Still, I must attend to the crash. Both drivers look deceased but raise their eyebrows when I ask if they feel like skin-bags […]
Read more "Something to Lose ~ William Doreski"AS MY PHONE LAY DYING My phone lay in its cradle breathing its last Breath as it slowly dies in front of my very Eyes. The incessant little beep enough to drive Some out of their sad little minds but for me I Count the moments until they stop or I just put The damn […]
Read more "5 POEMS ~ Bradford Middleton"Newsie He would come to the door ever so slowDeep into dotage and well past prime timeI waited amid discomforts shadeEager to collect and be on… I liked the design of my routeAll customers were conveniently located next to each exceptfor one lone house down the street a ways which was a drag on Sunday […]
Read more "NEWSIE ~ Tom Pennacchini"Metered Billing Even the moon rues its union with the Earth. Inch by inch, at the rate of a fingernail’s growth, it’s creating ways to glide away the same way we would when someone sneezes around our space. But can you find that object’s decision objectionable? It gave us turning tides, romantic nights, mythos, poems, […]
Read more "BOB MCNEIL – Metered Billing"Cost of life I live life at a costThat don’t nobody wanna paythe debt collector comeCause everybody got they dayThey probably find a cure to deathOne the 32nd of MayI could never rest in peaceMicheal said that heaven can wait aint y’all seeing all of this shit going onIts too realCant you see the shit […]
Read more "COST OF LIFE ~ JAYNA MARKS"2024 Election Poem I’m just writing this poem instead of eating highlighters, chewing gum foil, raisins, or Sylvia’s halloween candy. This afternoon I wrote “environment”, “change”, and “open border” on a piece of scratch paper in a column labeled BIG. I wrote in pen so it’s permanent. Most Americans vote for their team, despite this […]
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