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Last Days and Testament

It all ends like this. It’s 10 p.m. I’m on Greene Street in SoHo; it’s starting to rain, or it’s just stopped raining. I can’t tell. I go to a…


“The Bigger World,” “Anvil,” “Regret,” and Other Poems

the bigger world strummer dead and all of the tortured in el salvador and the way that nothing is beautiful in the first grey light of morning the…


The Story of Pec

Pec arose. The burden of the blankets didn't seem copious. Not enough for the movement of the blankets off of his body to cause his brain to respond…


“Springtime,” “Bored vs. Bored,” and “Demented”

Springtime Drifts of rain cascade lightly over shoulders Of the strolling eco-romanticists; When in smogging London Everything is melting Smog on…


Race Relations

A couple days later, my car won’t start. AutoZone tells me that my battery is bad. My boss had said that a cold front was coming, but I had ignored…


The Islands Tell of It

I paced restlessly around my apartment, not able to eat dinner or relax with a good DVD. My mind was racing, as well as my pumping heart. It was 7…


The Companion

translated by Karina Simakova I. The phone rang very quietly and seemingly reluctantly. I was surprised, but nonetheless picked up the phone.…


The Rock Shaped Like a Piano

One day, Tommy found a rock shaped like a piano. He was digging with a hand rake in the dirt of his garden. At first, the rock looked like a rock. It…


Letters from a Heartbroken Pervert: Nostalgia, Regret, Libido

Right after I finish writing this, I am going to call you---fuck texting. You will pick up and I will tell you how badly I want to fuck you. You will…


The Day I Wanted to Give Humanity a Hand

Here comes the bus at last. It eases to a stop, makes that sound as if it, too, is just plain exhausted and can’t go on another foot. The door folds…