Mar 04
The Polish Hammer Poetry Corner Beards Back in my day, a beard was a woman you’d agree to marry when too many people began questioning your need for such an extensive Barbie collection and your fixation with drinking Rose wine with your brunch. Nowadays, everyone has a beard. Seriously, I can’t remember the last time …
Mar 03
Apathy A knock at the door startled the family. They were playing with firetrucks, a toy dalmatian and seeing which of the little people could climb up the truck’s ladder to douse a conflagration. Candy leapt up and peeked out the window. The front porch was empty. She looked to her husband, Geoff, who shrugged …
Mar 02
Bitter Bites So what the fuck do we do now? Where do we grasp for power when it feels that there is none? No leverage with madmen clasping at their dreams of supremacy and unvalidated intellect, unjustifiable harshness in an already ugly world. We dangle the carrot of hope half-assedly these past few years as …
Mar 02
My Body Rescues Me When my mind is heavy as rain clouds, when I have lost my way in a paralytic depression, my legs come to rescue me. Block after block, mile after mile, my feet flying across pavement, my worries grow light and lighter. Automatic as a wind-up toy, my legs carry me away …
Mar 01
Election Night —November 7, 2000 I do my best to ignore the U.S. government but I was listening to the results coming in through my car radio as I made the drive from Oakland to Arizona the exit polls were saying Democrat and then it was too close to call and then Republican maybe and …
Feb 28
The Dance pull the roof off knock the walls down touch the forest climb those mountains and smell the sea again. watch how life decomposes in death going back to land to reform and be reborn as something and someone else. there’s no great secret to it all. no need to overthink it through food …
Feb 28
Night Science Day science is what they tell us we want and what we should want for maximum productivity and manifested potential and to be certain of all outcomes before we even start to enhance gut biomes, clear brain fog and grow hair exactly where we want it. As if a deck of cards could …
Feb 27
DayGlo Dice Roll #1: Synthwave Blue The Rev. Shaw Moore, that uptight preacher from Footloose happens to run into Andie from Pretty in Pink and things don’t go well because he can’t deal with a woman who knows herself because you can’t give a baby Jolt Cola because sycamores don’t grow upside down because a …
Feb 26
Tesla In A McDonald’s Parking Lot (A History Lesson From Walking The Dog} There’s a Tesla in the McDonald’s parking lot I guess rich people need food too I guess Tesla never wanted an elitist status symbol Named after him No, Nicola Tesla was a man of the people He wasn’t a right wing, snob …
Feb 26
Human A mail carrier, age 45, divorced, living in the midwest, enjoys contemporary folk rock, has a dog, smokes cigarettes, doesn’t drink, susceptible to hypnotic suggestion, full head of hair, blue eyes, 6 foot tall, a bit overweight, kind of jumpy, preoccupied with the fear that he is subconsciously driven by deep seated racial bias, …
