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.
“What Are the Prospects?” by Amy Lemmon
The question I asked/ every time I tried the online Tarot reading site,/ hoping again and again for some ancient truth/ to blow up like a billboard in living color...
“‘Don’t Let Me Down’: Eleven Facts About the Beatles” by Joanna Penn Cooper
John Lennon tells me these things, and it’s possible that John is the devil. I can tell by the way he stares out so intently from the poster.
“A Room with a Prayer” by Karen Schoemer
She reminds me of my Italian cousins. Square brick houses on tight suburban streets with Madonnas-in-bathtubs on front lawns.
“For Coloreds Only” by Daniel Summerhill
Still, somehow, each time I boarded,/ the jetway seemed a partition in which/ I could change in and out of my skin at will
