An Opposum Tale
Reading Time: 3 minutes (Inspired by an impromptu prompt from L. D. Lewis.) “Do they eat cucumbers?” Ryan asked. He tried to scratch at the opossum’s neck. She recoiled and hissed. “Don’t give him any cukes,” Toni said. “Then he’d be coming in my garden all the time. I don’t want that.” “She. It’s a she.” Read more
MoreAnthony Kiedis Puts on a Shirt
Reading Time: < 1 minute Laundered. One hundred percent Pima Cotton. Carefully buttoned onto a soft hanger. Smells like nothingness. White like sun-bleached stones. Fits over tattoos tribal and otherwise Fits over tanned biceps. Fits under impressive hair. On Anthony Kiedis’ mind is every song he’s ever sung; ballads and rock and funk he couldn’t give the key to Read more
MoreFake Poets
Reading Time: < 1 minute fake poets spray word confetti from mouths of blunt teeth from brains filled with something like television that never turns off fake poets think and say their way inside bricks get out again using tricks abstracted from mere mortar fake poets compete with hoddies to win gravity sweepstakes where no one’s survival is considered worth Read more
MoreAn Ode to Stanley Ghoti
Reading Time: 2 minutes Oh, I too want to be a poet! and yet Tell me where is meaning bred In my heart or in your head? Is it in ancestral words or in your presumptions of what’s unsaid in the surrounding static or contextual tapestry that birthed the utterance of a syllable of a what is meaning and is Read more
MoreWon’t You Celebrate with Me?
Reading Time: 3 minutes As a kid, when the Juneteenth, I had no idea what Juneteenth was. I just knew it was one of many summer festivals in Milwaukee. This one started with a parade that traveled the length of Martin Luther King, Dr. Luckily for my best friend TW and me, we lived only two blocks away from Read more
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Snake Stories
Reading Time: 4 minutes Someone, I think it was once of my uncles, once told me they had caught a black snake and thrown it in the washing machine and it was so strong it kept pushing the lid open no matter how hard they tried to keep it shut. Pretty sure it was when my mom and I Read more
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