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November 21, 2018
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…
November 20, 2018
“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…
November 20, 2018
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…
November 19, 2018
“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…
November 19, 2018
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…
November 18, 2018
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…
November 17, 2018
The Companion
translated by Karina Simakova I. The phone rang very quietly and seemingly reluctantly. I was surprised, but nonetheless picked up the phone.…
November 16, 2018
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…
November 16, 2018
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…
November 15, 2018
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…