Feb 14
That Big D Mentality “I love my dick,” says the young man sitting with his friend at the bar. They’re both good-looking guys who work for the city’s sanitation department; the bearded kid drives the garbage truck, and the kid who loves his dick, fit and tanned, rides the back, collecting the cans. “I just …
Feb 13
And They March people are hurting. they are lured or hurled from their blond carpeted living rooms into dark cellars made to eat cold slop from a wet bucket with their dirty hands, and our govt’s solution is to take back half of that cold slop to use as compost in their fourth houses’ second …
Feb 12
Mice The poet of beauty sees mice at the table so white, and frail, red-eyed, glowing how frequently through opium eyes, I see only what is on the other side of me. That wall, so dark and dank and locked with moats, only mice can get through. What wall, what mice What eyes gets through …
Feb 11
The Polish Hammer Poetry Corner The Polish Hammer Strikes Again I’ve been doing this for a long time. Writing, that is, with the intention of allowing any number of unknown people to judge me by the bullshit I put down on paper. I started getting my poetry and stories published in the early nineties, right …
Feb 10
The Menace The menace is 26 oz. of smoke at birth. The menace is caged hatreds boiling. The menace is the tips of rattlesnake warnings. The menace is fallen comets dipped in paint. The menace is ugly sex faces in scream. The menace is voodoo bones for dice. The menace is comradery losing the kiddie …
Feb 09
Puma Perl and Joe Sztabnik’s Under Tenement Skies is a masterstroke of raw emotion, storytelling, and sonic atmosphere. This spoken word blues album captures the gritty soul of urban life, blending Perl’s evocative poetry with Sztabnik’s hauntingly resonant musical compositions. Together, they create a vivid tapestry of love, loss, rebellion, and survival, set against the …
Feb 08
I am half a man, a ruined garden, a man without a drum, embroglio of time and failed intent, cross-stitched by wing of predator and treetop, cursed human companion; half a man, half wilderness, introducing myself to a land that has forgotten me, a prodigal, cruel and neglectful, father to none, and alien, mocked by …
Feb 07
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