: Cut Poem: Personal Injury Lawyer 1-800-Personal-Injury-Lawyer! He’s your personal… problem… destroyer! If you’re …errr… hurt in a …
: Send It Tonight was the first submission of my manuscript. As expected, it was a little underwhelming. To …
: Ohio There’s a coffee stain shaped like Ohio near the baseboard from when you threw that mug the …
: Lilydale Dog Park, 8:45 am He would disappear into the brush for minutes at a time. But he always came back to check on me.
: Process Note: Elegy at the 7-Eleven Tomorrow, my poem Elegy at the 7-Eleven will be published in ONE ART. I tend to write haiku/senryu …
: Together I finished my manuscript. Again. I started with a “safe” version. Completely wrote it. Done. …
: Henry David Thoreau Reviews Modern Slang: “Simp" To be labeled a simp in modern parlance is to stand accused of the cardinal sin of our age: caring …
: I slipped into a wormhole. three sevens, two twos and no idea how this works so i fold, i guess
: entered time loop : loop time entered
: How to Create a Relationship That Lasts In a large bowl, combine: 1 hearts of mystery 2 dashes of trust …like, a…thing…of dragonfruit? …
: After storming 7 castles and encountering 7 of the wrong princesses, Mario decided his time was …
: Unplanned Retirement The realization that he wasn't living up to his potential hit him mid-performance. He withdrew his …
: Process Note: "Dissertation" Today I wrote “Dissertation”. Here’s how I got there… A few years ago, I went on vacation to Vashon …
: Hold That Thought Oh god, this is it. It’s perfect. Maybe this angle. These words. You’re saying something. Through …
: Gratitude I was always a strong reader and writer. So much so that my school formed a special group of myself …
: Lost Threads: My Attempt to find the Poetry of Human Connection Amidst Digital Chaos First off: to set some expectations, I am not a data scientist, but I am an engineer and a poet. …
: Macho Man Randy Savage Reviews: Entropy Snap Into Thermodynamic Irreversibility! Let me tell you somethin’, brother… You can stack your …
: well, our government is like – oh someone’s knocking get down on the ground
: 50% Off For 3 Months My heart is available via subscription model.
: On Glass Houses A: “Innovate!” B: innovates A: “Wait, not like this!”
: If zombie vampires exist, we have so much to learn from them.
: My AI Girlfriend I’ve heard the stories about people falling in love with AI chatbots. That’s so fascinating to me on …
: First Amendment We doubted the darkness but gagged as it wrapped around our throats.
: there’s a time for love but i just ate spaghetti so it’s not right now
: The first rule of hopelessness club is oh what does it even matter.
: Purgatory On our last night we burned the maps to push back the dark.
: My dog humps the couch cushions. It’s Friday. I told him he can hump all he wants.
: We Got What We Said We Wanted We did it. A perfect world. No crime. No heartbreak. No unwashed children in ragtag slums waiting …
: Echolocation The wires hang from the rafters. I follow them as I must have always done. My steps echo in the …
: Lumen It’s too dark to read. Please come stand by me because I can use your light.
: Pretense …I mean if that’s what you want to do, go right on ahead. There’s some two by fours out back by the …
: His crime was that he would find people having drinks with those little umbrellas in them and he …
: In Case You Needed to Hear This Hey like, man, you can do and say profound things and still like gummy worms.
: What I Should Have Known Things were going well. She ordered salmon. I had beef wellington. We were in orbit feeding each …
: Donate to my GoFundMe to ban drum sets because hand percussion is far superior
: This Poem Was Written By an LLM Trained on Eurodance* Take Me Energy Higher Pressure Move Your Body Energy Tonight Pump Moving Energy— Forever. * This …
: On Convergence This nugget of an idea eventually became a much longer free-verse poem called “Cherry Pie”. going to …
: My Campaign for Treasurer I decided to run for some position on the junior high school student council. Treasurer, maybe. No …
: Rocketry As a kid, for a while I was into model rockets. Kind of. There are different model rocket engine …
: When you wake up at 3am like a shot cause it hits you out of nowhere.
: Let The Record Show I always have some level of creativity. Like a pulse. But sometimes I get a surge. Thursday night I …
: Wherever You Go, There You Are We really should have known. He was burning the candle at both ends. To perform brain surgery and …
: I knocked on heaven’s door, but only before I saw the “No Soliciting” sign. My …
: Of all the things that are important right now, none are more important than this. You must be told, …
: A Hollow Light They come with crosses. They leave with... they never leave. Jeff's Note: I expanded this into a …
: When I read a poem to someone and they get misty-eyed, I do too.
: Continuing your travels across the plains, you will come to the city of Juro. The architects of Juro …
: Turbo Simile, Volume 1 “…like the feeling when a friend has tickets to a concert but can’t go so they offer them to …
: Look, I cancelled Xbox Game Pass only because it was the thing to do. Point at things and command …
: They said they’d give me a hundred dollars when I reached the horizon and I took them up on …
: my favorite hamburger? the one I’ve just eaten.
: rooftops passing by tar crowns on withheld moments fire and stone between
: My Important Sunday Thoughts It’s Sunday. Today I woke up early and wrote “Scene from A Cafe” (Edit: now called …
: Bad Jokes Deluxe Yesterday I was trying to eat some ice cream, but the kid I stole it from wouldn’t stop crying. I …
: Rolling I wasn’t close with my dad. We tried. But one day we were eating ice cream and watching cars on a …
: Naming Ceremony Maybe love is a farce. Maybe it’s the thing we say to convince ourselves we’re different. But forget …
: I've got a dad body. That's why you shouldn't go down to the basement.
: Of all the things I’ve read this year, the Dr. Suk slap sequence in Dictionary of the Khazars might …
: Dog Judge: The court hereby finds you the most amazing and best person that ever lived!
: Today I changed my mind. The new one isn’t very good either.
: What do I have more of, concerns or money? Concerns.
: If doing things was as easy as undoing things, I’d be way more productive.
: No Higher Ground I walked down a hill got to the bottom and realized— this was the best walk I’ve ever had. Most of …
: On the Topic of Ham I just learned I was accepted to the MFA program I wanted. That’s great news. There is a type of …
: From a Dream Last night I dreamed of a mushroom cloud in the distance. I wasn’t sad. Not even scared. Just— …
: An Open Letter to Sony Dear Sony, As a former purchaser of Sony products, I must express my sincere displeasure that you …
: I watched a lot of bad stand-up comedy and I wanted to offer these Jeff Parker-approved lines for …
: I finished re-reading (again) Calvino’s Invisible Cities. There’s already ubiquitous praise for it …
: Seven Visions of Kevin Stevens i saw a squirrel his name was kevin stevens that’s what he told me spring light, waking earth …
: The Thing about Poetry The thing about poetry is that it must be jeweled, baroque, a palace where every verb is encrusted …