ISSUE 178
2008-11-09
Voodoo Doll
Jimmy Chen
As it is illegal to skull fuck a person, Donald, who was keen on complicated metaphors, skull fucked small countries instead.
my trick
Justin Hyde
my two dogs standing over me / sniffing for death.
Sand #8
J.A. Tyler
He saw the most unsubtle of movements.
2 Poems
Matt Summers
Oh Sigourney— / sweating, tugging hard at that helmet— / don’t worry, I’m sure it will come right off.
vernal
Carl Miller Daniels
at the strawberry ball, all the catering is / done by college swim-team boys...
Shooting Star
Ty Bluesmith
They always went to happy hour on Friday night. All the people from the office went except the Christians and the Muslims and the ones nobody wanted to invite.
Water Main Break
Eric Beeny
Trickle down theory’s a wet leg
Jimmy Chen
As it is illegal to skull fuck a person, Donald, who was keen on complicated metaphors, skull fucked small countries instead.
my trick
Justin Hyde
my two dogs standing over me / sniffing for death.
Sand #8
J.A. Tyler
He saw the most unsubtle of movements.
2 Poems
Matt Summers
Oh Sigourney— / sweating, tugging hard at that helmet— / don’t worry, I’m sure it will come right off.
vernal
Carl Miller Daniels
at the strawberry ball, all the catering is / done by college swim-team boys...
Shooting Star
Ty Bluesmith
They always went to happy hour on Friday night. All the people from the office went except the Christians and the Muslims and the ones nobody wanted to invite.
Water Main Break
Eric Beeny
Trickle down theory’s a wet leg
Pericho
Thom Young
They had a small family funeral in Texline. Jan cried. Then she got hungry.
Breakdown
Christian Ward
...I lathered the inside / of my brain with caffeine
The Greasing of Bobby John Willet
Leigh Byrne
...no man with a hair on his chest was going to let you cram a fistful of grease down his pants without a respectable fight.
Why Lie in a Grave When You Can Work in a Tomb
Wayne Mason
A walking skeleton / with sad eyes
Tale of the Unborn Chinaman
Bob Jacobs
I'm picturing my head stuck inside Rita. The image is clear but unreal, and not particularly attractive.
Wishing on Whores
John Weagly
“You know that place in my living room where the rug bunches up and everybody trips over it?”
The Weight
Michael Pikna
I sit on my bony ass at the east end of the alley and watch the sky pink up, like a stranglehold on the world's been loosened.
Thom Young
They had a small family funeral in Texline. Jan cried. Then she got hungry.
Breakdown
Christian Ward
...I lathered the inside / of my brain with caffeine
The Greasing of Bobby John Willet
Leigh Byrne
...no man with a hair on his chest was going to let you cram a fistful of grease down his pants without a respectable fight.
Why Lie in a Grave When You Can Work in a Tomb
Wayne Mason
A walking skeleton / with sad eyes
Tale of the Unborn Chinaman
Bob Jacobs
I'm picturing my head stuck inside Rita. The image is clear but unreal, and not particularly attractive.
Wishing on Whores
John Weagly
“You know that place in my living room where the rug bunches up and everybody trips over it?”
The Weight
Michael Pikna
I sit on my bony ass at the east end of the alley and watch the sky pink up, like a stranglehold on the world's been loosened.
