READ SOME BULLSHIT

Jun 1, 2022
3 min

THREE POEMS by HALLE PRENETA

LOOPS KILL US The Heroine is the one to save the goddess of water and beauty and joy and love. The one whose heart is gold and whose...

May 25, 2022
2 min

THREE POEMS by TANYA CASTRO

I HEARD THE WORLD OFFER ITSELF AND MY MOM SAID NO You can’t offer the world. Some people take it like greedy toddler fingers. There’s so...

May 20, 2022
1 min

THREE POEMS by COLIN JAMES

ONE JUST HAS TO BE SO VERY CAREFUL Several statues of white angels have gone missing from the Angelenos Cemetery. I had been sleeping in...

May 19, 2022
2 min

A POEM by CLEM FLOWERS

LOX, CAPERS, HONEY BUTTER There's faux- Vineyard Grapes up on the wall from when this place was an attempt at a classy Italian restaurant...

May 13, 2022
8 min

EIGHT THINGS by JEN SCHNEIDER

14 (PLUS) REASONS TO (RE)SET THE CUCKOO CLOCKS just when you think there is nothing more to say, an alarm clock rings, & the small wooden...

May 12, 2022
4 min

FIVE POEMS by DALE BOOTON

OVER TEXT we tell each other the sordid things we want to do to each other and to others while the other watches or catches in the act...

May 11, 2022
3 min

FOUR POEMS by ABIODUN SALAKO

BOY DISEMBODIED IN JUNE It is amazing how full the body is yet it is easily divisible. Basilio Donati Forget your body, boy/ and the way...

May 6, 2022
2 min

THREE POEMS by SCOTT CUMMING

BATH FART POEM The bath fart sounded like a note from a Shins song Trying to drown another back ache from a flying double knee drop and...

Apr 29, 2022
3 min

THREE POEMS by JOHN GREY

WHERE IT ALL BEGAN It was back in the Garden when it was just two people, one man, one woman, and there were no jobs because jobs weren’t...

Apr 28, 2022
1 min

TWO POEMS by JAI KNIGHT

EARLY BIRD Naturally I’m a nightbird but this wintery morning I’m awake before most have got up out with mallards & watching a swan wash...

Apr 27, 2022
2 min

FOUR THINGS by HOWIE GOOD

SOMETHING'S BURNING A black sun dawned over the horizon. Human ashes from the 15 ovens of the crematorium had been scattered as...

Apr 15, 2022
1 min

THREE POEMS by R.S. BRANDRIFF

ROAD CLOSURE: WE WELCOME YOU ROAD CLOSED AHEAD —a bright spot on the side of the hill, steep drop on the other. Add a visual component to...

Apr 14, 2022
1 min

A POEM by BARRACUDA GUARISCO

CLASSICALLY RELAXED, LANDING PUNCHES OUTSIDE THE DREAM by dint of skimmed chance, we mutualize fake far(-off) eastern argot we’re not...

Apr 13, 2022
2 min

FOUR THINGS by LEAH MUELLER

A THIRD CHANCE After his second wife left him, Leo decided to live underwater. At first, it was hard to get used to the dampness. Leo’s...

Apr 7, 2022
2 min

'ERIKA JAYNE WITH ONE HAND ON A BIBLE*' by ALEX CARRIGAN

ERIKA JAYNE WITH ONE HAND ON A BIBLE* No, I did not compare myself to Christ, someone else did and I reposted it. Now everyone can have a...

Apr 6, 2022
5 min

SIX POEMS by LUCAS RESTIVO

THESE POEMS ARE FROM LUCAS'S CHAPBOOK, 'FUCKO' (BULLSHIT, SEPT. 2022). FUCK what the fuck is up what the fuck is up what the fuck i got...

Apr 1, 2022
4 min

TWO THINGS by MELODY WANG

THE THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE It was a typical Friday afternoon, complete with a fight for love — to the death, of course. The stout Italian...

Mar 31, 2022
2 min

FOUR POEMS by nat raum

DEEP SPACE carefully constructed prose slips away in the darkest corners of a red room projected nostalgia onscreen (evidently i’m...

Mar 25, 2022
3 min

FOUR POEMS by KARINA KUPP

WILD CHAIR SHOPPING after a month of working from home and my back pain returning I realized that my chair sucks (what did I expect from...

Mar 24, 2022
1 min

A POEM by ETHAN TURNER

UPTOWN Eccentric multi colored lights fade into soft bulbs overhead, whiteness blending into darkness of the night An Uber traffic jam,...