Monthly Archives: October 2020

You v. The Spigot You’re normally truculent and foul-breathed in the morning, but even the ubangi bangi car sputtering down the street can’t spoil a morning like this: a pastel yellow, peach and powder blue sky, and the world is … Continue reading →

A Madhouse It was this Charlton Heston thing. The Romans are meeting at the Forum — more like the Colosseum — deciding the fate of the legions off at war; and somehow, I, a hero, am embroiled in the decision. … Continue reading →

“Hot on the Heels of Love” I think Satina had enough the day I slagged her student film. It’d been a difficult year between us. She was so independent so different than the Cuban girls I knew from home. Clingers. … Continue reading →

“Dear Neighbors, I have a relative who is chronically ill. Long-term antibiotic use has left him with severe indigestion, brain fog, and fatigue. As you may know, we have friendly gut microbes (called the “microbiome”) that help our metabolism, immune … Continue reading →

concern 124 your office for blood my name is 78 theres too much pressure its got to stop its got to stop too much pressure last week dated i added a letter i added an addled letter i couldnt use … Continue reading →

Anoles We made snares from long grasses, We caught one in ten; then We prodded a bite and We wore them as earrings. I pinched their their necks for dewlaps — Their red-ringed and speckled yellow arcs. You, transfixed, favored … Continue reading →

(your subconscious) your subconscious sublunary the moth for the star your subconscious font of sedition and secession irrefragable and heretical be on your way dripping devil demoniacal the way is full of obstacles there is no such thing as herd … Continue reading →

Blood Sport Pretend you’re traveling on a business trip … (All I can say is… stop. Stop!) Convinced you’re lost, laying there in that Amazonian outpost — covered by a mosquito net — the masses of mosquitos, a deluge through … Continue reading →

cross-wired the morality of it doesn’t enter in to any of this we can hold two mutually contradictory ideas in mind at the same time fritillary herbaceous & compromised as a corpus callosum that no longer holds a mind together … Continue reading →

Market Futures The ad above the seats reads — Intrusive thoughts… Appearance … Causing Significant Stress? She reads the sign and immediately hates how the man sitting below the sign acts — a loud in the cellphone talker She sees … Continue reading →