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"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 […]
Read more "2 election poems ~ Tim Staley"When The Patriarch Asked the Family Thread “I think I’ve asked this before; do any of you have the Apple credit card? What is your frank opinion of its utility vs cards like AMEX (air miles) or Costco VISA (membership at Costco and minor cash back)? For their watch, deposited on the back of Now […]
Read more "When The Patriarch Asked the Family Thread… ~ Q Staley, T Staley & Dada"Light So many postcards. So much to say. “Dear Elaine,” she writes to herself. “Almost Christmas. Can you tell? It’s the reindeer. They’re everywhere. Their antlers rising from car windows. Tiny Christmas trees. Those too. On these windows. These cars. Antlers and Christmas trees sprouting from the same window sometimes. Insane, I know. And wreaths. […]
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Read more "SUBMIT YOUR POEMS TO CACTI FUR"Within This Tree Within this tree another tree inhabits the same body: within this stone another stone rests, its many shades of grey the same, its identical surface and weight. And within my body, another body, whose history, waiting, sings: there is no other body, it sings, there is no other world. This poem was […]
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