Editor @ February 26, 2009 # 3 Comments
Uncle Jim
by peter meinke
What the children remember about Uncle Jim
is that on the train to Reno to get divorced
so he could marry again
he met another woman and woke up in California.
It took him seven years to untangle that dream
but a man who could sing like Uncle Jim
was bound to get in scrapes now and then:
he [...]
Elizabeth C. Neavel @ February 25, 2009 # 11 Comments
I’d Rather Be Showering.
by elizabeth c neavel
Seriously.
I just left the shower
to say
I love my pussy.
And that
all I wanted to do was take
one
slow
shower.
Cleanse my body.
My thoughts.
My soul.
But
all I did
was stick my hand in the fast
hot jets,
draw it out again
and sigh with intense exasperation.
Because:
you,
my insufferable muse,
decided that I would
march
right back to my room
and type how much [...]
mattmiller @ February 24, 2009 # 6 Comments
Ode to Benny Hill: Scooby Doo Chase Scene
by matt miller
If I were a rich man,
Ya di da da da da da da da da da da da da da,
All day long, I’d eat spiders and flies,
If I were a wealthy man!
I’d…never have to drink blood;
All the victims would be safe and sound,
Their necks only for [...]
norm milliken @ February 23, 2009 # 2 Comments
old age arrives
by norm milliken
old age arrives
old age arrives
in a plain, brown box,
prepaid and taped
against intrusion.
loosely packed,
it rattles
in the handling,
invites curiosity and
with no return address
suggests
opening.
Editor @ February 22, 2009 # 15 Comments
The writers guild local has a need to inform interested Texas writers that they are currently accepting submissions for their yearly Fiction Contest. They are a small venue so odds are in the writers favor that they will win one of the three cash awards as well as the figurative feather in the cap that [...]
Editor @ February 21, 2009 # 2 Comments
Mr. Griffin’s Establishment for Gentlemen
by david macpherson
Of course there are a lot of strip bars to choose from. Naturally. But for us, we always go to Griffin’s. The strippers here go the extra mile to our mind, they go beyond taking off their clothes, they take off everything. The dancers here are invisible. You can’t [...]
Editor @ February 20, 2009 # 3 Comments
what they mean to say when they break your heart
by steven dondlinger
When I say I don’t love you
I mean you aren’t special. You are
like any other person on the street.
You are both unimportant
and unattractive unless I am
(a) drunk
(b) lonely
(c) far away from home
In which case, you are comforting at best
but only when I am feeling insecure.
That [...]
Editor @ February 19, 2009 # 2 Comments
disappearing act
by yossarian
you’ve gotta get to the liquor store
about noon
at ten
when they open
the hopeless are lined up
three deep
waiting to get in
and at midnight
well
we all know about liquor stores
at the last minute
but at noon
you can slip in
and out
without anyone
you don’t want to see you
seeing you
if you choose
to hit a bar
you drop in about two thirty
after the [...]
Editor @ February 18, 2009 # One Comment
Joke in a Bank
by matthew rohrer
When you try to make a joke
in a bank
it falls flat
there’s an armed guard
standing there
wearing sunglasses indoors
motionless
but no one laughs
in fact my intentions
are misunderstood
no, no, I am just
going to walk out
the door and come back in
to turn my coins
into paper money
fifty-three dollars
in the sunshine
I’m on my way
with my jacket
in my [...]
Editor @ February 17, 2009 # 3 Comments
SOMETIMES IT JUST TAKES THE RIGHT WORDS WITH THE RIGHT INFLECTIONS ABOUT THE RIGHT PIE WITH OF COURSE THE RIGHT INGREDIENTS AND THE PROPER BAKING TIME
by Ricky Garni
The way you describe banana cream pie could make the most heartless dead assassin
one who killed completely innocent people for really small amounts of money–maybe just enough for [...]