i loved my young life once. it thrummed with inner mischief, some transgressions maybe but all tongue, all textures, all translated through that funnel in my head.
Excerpt from ‘The Couples’ by Nicole Callihan
Let someone bang her champagne glass with the pretty cutlery your in-laws gifted you. Or bang your own.
“recipe for a massacre: tulsa 1921” by Quraysh Ali Lansana
a lynch mob. a defense mob. a gunshot. hate. a gunshot. hate. a deputizing of hundreds.
Excerpts from ‘Extant Fragments’ by steve dalachinsky
there is a confluence influenced apparently by a fluidity of music.
“Schnitzel” by Rax King
All meat is tenderized the same way. /Good meat is beat lifeless before you eat.
“A Highly Subjective and Sometimes Contradictory Alphabet for the Young and Aspiring Professional Writer” by Marc Spitz
Be humble. Do not be a dick. Do this for the sake of your soul but also for the sake of your career.
“Single” by Jaime Fountaine
She’s the kind of person who adapts to a broken thing instead of figuring out how to fix it.
“Goodnight, Whoever You Are” by Michael Robins
Faceless hills,/ lamps of summer in galaxy gray, we touch & go
“Neighborhood Watch, circa 2009” by Susan Rukeyser
I gave you a chance. How many notes did I leave, before you pushed me to this?
“Enlightenment” by Virginia Konchan
I have a blind date with destiny:/ no doubt I won’t be recognized.
