On Reading ‘A Government of Wolves’
Close your eyes. Imagine you are George Winston. It is 1984. You are concerned about Big Brother watching you. The…
Category: Poetry
Guns Talk: A Parody of “Little Talks” by Of Monsters and Men
Hey! Hey! Hey! She was just walking down the street, and they come blasting, chased by the heat. The kid…
Kerouac Torch
Tom walked in with the bouquet of blazing sacrosanct truths the first sermons he could ever really get behind. he…
Abandoning a Warlord for Dummies
One of the car bombs peeled the lawn, then the smog cleared up Anton stood palmin' a beer mug, molotov…
Snellen Chart
The patient came to the museum of objects caressed the pieces she could not see. The docent supplied words of…
America in 4013
Is that lava or simply mud dripping from the cheeks of this old woman asking me why this library has…
Meth Free Tennessee
I love you more in Meth Free Tennessee as the night fell rough on the loping hills, rough as the…
No Hero to Emulate
We are outliving ourselves faster than we can resurrect ourselves. We do not have time to wait, but we have…
Childproof Boxes
You argue with me like we’re underwater; If I don’t drown you’ll ask me to try harder. I’m Icarus after…
The Future is For Ghosts
The future is for ghosts. Breeding placidly behind screens. Electronic doubles, dead echoes, Hollow shells of familiarity. My mind is…