oh the horror think of the dryer swallowing socks: maybe the hunger will soon be sated; maybe their lint now floats across lawns unseen, maybe the socks are better off wherever they go, nothing holding them back from doing what must be done in […]
Author: mwschmeer
2022-11-10
hero you should know better but that doesn’t stop you from leaping off the roof, immortal like all six-year-olds who believe a cape & under- wear grant powers magic & mystical but you are fifty-two so what’s your excuse?
2022-11-02
Evil bananas plot to overthrow the state capitol. At night, mosquitoes fish for jelly beans beneath oil slicks. Badgers roam the interstate. Sometimes at night I hear cows arguing about the right way to pole dance. Badgers fight each other while alligators breathe. In […]
2022-11-01
thursday night the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog & shot the damn cat with a grizzly gun but hey who is counting when no one is looking around in the woods? & did I tell you the elk have invaded the […]
2022-10-11
it was night & the stars when the magpie called & left a withered feather, two voicemails, transcripts unintelligible, urgent, noise on the line crackling fire & you said it was time for space & the stars arranged themselves pearled strings bleating songs in […]
2022-10-05
out of the that came the when and the what stood in the still since the before came after but how no one knew so or and the why bought a round on the top under the next and that’s when it went to […]
2022-07-21
I was young& confusedlust & love& now 30years laterhere we arefour kidsa mortgagetwo old carsschleppedin the garagea dead cat& damnif it doesn’tfeel like homebut christcould I usea cigarette