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Spirits
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Poetry
joke’s on me
i was gonna quit smoking weed today. i had it all planned out. drank some coffee, took a walk, got serious about life. then i…
Poetry
Dead & gone
it’s strange this bottle of wine how it makes me want you again last time, you just pumped me, no foreplay no thought of how…
Poetry
THE DEFENSE PLEADS NOT GUILTY
don’t make a film in black and white they’ll say you’re trying to be artsy even though you were only trying to hide the color…
Poetry
ELEVATOR MUSIC
the guy standing next to me in the elevator got a hard on I would have liked to have grabbed his crotch feeling the stiffness…
Poetry
Sharks
i told my boyfriend to fuck off so he went on this dating site called plenty of fish he started looking for older women apparently…
Poetry
Dark Roast
pour-over coffee carafe at dawn watching grounds rise and fall before tipping the kettle again every ten seconds time enough to think how in a…
Poetry
he
knew his poems weren’t going to change anything or move anyone, but he kept on writing, even when the bills came due, his friends gave…
Poetry
Insomnia Chases Sleep
Insomnia chases sleep out the window. Sleep boomerangs off the moon, and hides under a bridge I’ve never seen. Insomnia is relentless. It chases sleep…
Poetry
Italy
I’m not sure what we’re doing here waiting for life to begin saving money writing poems that no one reads going to school taking jobs…
Poetry
BULLSHIT MONEY
Tim says they don’t pay him enough at the gas station he spends most of his time there talking to everybody he’s right though they…
Poetry
Barbara and St. Francis
Barbara sits under elms by the fountain in the park where St. Francis feeds the birds, in the park elms shade the fountain near which…
Poetry
Out of our minds on a pleasant Sunday afternoon
I like the guy across the street I think he’s a vet but I can’t be sure I’ve never met him he has a nice…
Poetry
Moonshine
A gypsy moth mistakes the incandescence from a bulb in the porch ceiling as a sextant moon. I watch from the rocker sipping liquor from…
Poetry
Cat
I’ve been sleeping on the couch for hours with the cat now I have to get up to go get the mail and become a…
Poetry
Two Poems
Uphill If asked what the most beautiful sight on earth is I’d probably say that it’s the feeling of a blanket half covering bare shoulders…
Poetry
Rick
was this old friend of mine who gave me my first and only award for poetry. it was near 3 in the morning and we…
Poetry
What One Gives Up
My heart has grown docile, less inclined to thrash about and strain at the leash. Maybe that’s the way it goes: we come into the…
Poetry
Ghost Light
This is no ordinary dark. In my day it took heavy machinery to drill through it: ellipsoidal spotlights when Fresnel bits broke, and mixing-bowl-shaped reflector…
Poetry
insecstasy
they mess with your head she said these tiny little fruit flies i couldn’t argue we were well into the second bottle of good red…
Interviews
Easing the Monsters: An Interview with Charles Bukowski
Bukowski on poetry, craft, the 9-to-5, and “easing the monsters,” among other topics. Dougherty: In your poems, you sometimes write about enjoying your time at the…
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RUBY
He lived with a pigeon, his entire apartment was covered in bird-shit, he dealt good hash, but it was a horror, no surface was untouched,…
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