Nov 19
The Queen of Texas When my maternal grandmother was still relevant she fried porkchops. She fried chicken. She fried okra. She fried bacon. She fried sausage. She dunked cookies in coffee. She burned trash in a barrel. She answered phones. She tickled backs. She told stories. She sang songs. She broke fevers with cold wash …
Nov 12
A Witch’s Promise To My Christian Cousin you’ve inherited some money & married well two or three times a true Capricorn you have scrambled your way to the top of the garbage heap you tell anyone who will listen that you are favored by God you owe it all to a man named Jesus dying …
Oct 31
Tallest Man I’ve Ever Known Daddy was a monster was a god was a tree was a mountain. I guess I was some kind of doll. Six feet seven inches. He stood over me his blue eyes shining rage his belt swinging his words reducing me to so much ash. This is common. He was …
Oct 15
You Are Infinite, Baby, Infinite Fox News and Tik Tok will tell you different but you are money you are bars of gold you are a billion times better than that you are energy you are surplus you are thrum you are purpose you are shiny new truck that never breaks down on the way …
Oct 06
How I Start My Day I piss but let’s not show that on the YouTube camera. I wake up hot because even though I’m naked beneath a fan I’m 52 and fat and female. I started bleeding when I was 14 and all these decades later I still identify as Sissy Spacek as Carrie. I …
Sep 29
Basic Bitch Economy Actually no you’re wrong about that you’re wrong about most things so sit your ass down in the hot seat and I’ll tell you why. My pussy ain’t none of your business and instant pussy is an inside joke but nobody lately is laughing. I can sell my pussy on Rodeo Drive, …
Sep 22
Super Cherry Extra This is what I have this super sexy old school gas station in the desert coldest Coca-Cola hottest hot dogs for six hundred miles in any direction usual suspects on the jukebox humming near the girlie mag section the neon is cherry and there are no bugs no snakes no puddles of …
Sep 15
it’s Monday morning my ass is sore & I KNOW why I didn’t know then but I know now. I can’t believe it’s not butter. Gee your hair smells terrific. All I ever wanted to be was Bobby’s girl but it was never my party my prom my sock hop my goddamn cotillion. I wasn’t …
Sep 08
Most Likely To Recede PBS PSA: when you grow up learnin’ songs such as The B-I-B-L-E yes that’s the book for me and if The Devil Doesn’t Like it He Can Sit On A Tack (OUCH!) it’s unlikely you’ll become a Rhodes scholar, let alone America’s Next Top Model. Cheated from the start. I’m still …
