Hauling Nitro

Mar

2006-11-30T20:38:00.000-08:00

Mariana tells me
her cat likes to play at the bottom
of the sea.

De-fucked

2006-11-14T10:06:00.000-08:00

She's on fuck
patrol tonight, her aching jaw
is firmly set.

Sack of Poems

2006-10-16T10:42:00.000-07:00

I'll trade you
500 poems for a laugh and a
barrel of monkeys.

Spleen Time, Again

2006-10-16T10:36:00.000-07:00

They love to
hate everything, and they think
they're the first.

Hidden Sub-Architecture

2006-10-16T10:31:00.000-07:00

Aliens implant code
in our brains by manipulating
baseball box scores.

First Corpse

2006-10-16T10:26:00.000-07:00

She downloaded him
onto her laptop, as his body was
blown to bits.

Secretless

2006-10-16T10:23:00.000-07:00

She wants to
harbor a secret, but her mouth
is beyond control.

No More Old School, O.G.

2006-10-16T10:14:00.000-07:00

We blew up
the old school, and the new
school's in flames.

Sleepy Skater

2006-09-28T12:40:00.000-07:00

She is burning
the candle from both ends, out
on the ice.

Mulligan

2006-09-28T11:27:00.000-07:00

His life amounted
to a series of do-overs, set in a
giant sand trap.

Dreamland (Her Insomnia)

2006-09-28T11:11:00.000-07:00

She swims all
night at the 24-hour fitness center
in the mall.

First Born Bomb

2006-08-17T08:32:00.000-07:00

He calls it
The Self-Moving and Combustible Egg,
the hand grenade.

Our Old Brains

2006-08-17T08:29:00.000-07:00

We cannot stop
trying to get a bird's eye view
on the bird.

Sussex, Wisconsin Poem

2006-08-17T08:19:00.000-07:00

The abandoned caboose
wastes away, leaving rust stains
in the snow.

The Best Attitude

2006-08-17T08:18:00.000-07:00

The best attitude
to take in any situation is: I
couldn't care less.

Baltimore Mind

2006-08-15T18:01:00.000-07:00

He's new in
town, but somehow he just knows
the way around.

Ice Cream Headache Suicide

2006-08-15T17:59:00.000-07:00

She couldn't wait
for it to subside, so she threw herself
off the roof.

The Little Death

2006-08-15T17:53:00.000-07:00

He became obsessed
with the sound of women sneezing, and
the erotic implications.

Basho at the ATM

2006-08-15T17:48:00.000-07:00

The machine spits
out forty dollars as he munches on
fried frog legs.

Sleep Boutique

2006-08-15T17:42:00.000-07:00

My sleep boutique
peddles naps after lunch to groggy
financial district workers.

Abrupt and Light

2006-08-15T17:37:00.000-07:00

She carves poems
that hit quick and then linger, like
half-remembered dreams.

Hates Live

2006-08-15T17:33:00.000-07:00

He holes up
in his home studio, vowing endless
fidelity to documentation.

Her Neck

2006-08-15T17:28:00.000-07:00

Her neck is
a frozen tundra, and he is lost
in a whiteout.

Tracks

2006-08-15T17:24:00.000-07:00

She always wears
this black, long-sleeve Germs
shirt around me.

Quick Boot

2006-08-15T17:13:00.000-07:00

We gulp beer
from two giant glass boots
at Zur Krone.

Timid Barber

2006-08-15T17:10:00.000-07:00

The old Chinese
woman refuses to cut my hair as short
as I'd like.

Dirge Analyst

2006-08-15T17:04:00.000-07:00

She tells him
the track lacks sufficient gravity
to foster gloom.

Dry Out Tank

2006-07-26T15:30:00.000-07:00

He loved drawing
on their faces with a magic marker when they
were passed-out.

Nail in Board

2006-07-26T15:27:00.000-07:00

Her crude weapon
split his skull, and the blood soaked her,
head to toe.

Piltdown Man, Man

2006-07-26T15:25:00.000-07:00

Doyle hinted at
the hoax in several stories, but
believers will believe.

Zero, the Dangerous Invention

2006-07-26T15:22:00.000-07:00

The elders declare
that his tongue must be cut out, to
preserve civil order.

Golden Gate Park Red Cross Center

2006-07-26T07:05:00.000-07:00

She mouths the
words, "Good kitty," over and
over and over.

Female Jail

2006-07-18T11:48:00.000-07:00

Biters and scratchers
isolated, we hose them down,
and log tattoos.

Spam Prevention Robot Error Poem

2006-07-18T11:34:00.000-07:00

Spam blog characteristics
were detected, but we're sorry about
the false positive.

Boring Through the Mantle

2006-07-18T11:32:00.000-07:00

Her eyes drill
into his inner core, and his knees
begin to buckle.

Feather in Cap

2006-07-14T08:50:00.000-07:00

Rice admires the
pile of bodies, and thinks to herself,
"a good start."

To Die While Laughing

2006-07-10T12:13:00.000-07:00

Angel of Death
whispers a joke into his ear as
he drifts away.

Car Wash Bird

2006-07-10T09:26:00.000-07:00

He steals quarters
from the tin cup, and drops them
in the gutter.

Nine Kinds of Ridiculous

2006-06-12T12:52:00.000-07:00

Have at it,
little ones, for your story is hurtling
to a close.

High and Dry (Outside Albuquerque)

2006-05-25T11:51:00.000-07:00

She left him
high and dry, without so much
as an explanation.

In a Lurch (Outside Kenosha)

2006-05-25T11:49:00.000-07:00

He left her
in a lurch, stuck on the side
of Interstate 94.

52 First Cousins, Scalemakers

2006-05-24T07:27:00.000-07:00

The salaryman explains
to me that he mostly sells scales to the
sumo wrestling circuit.

Death Blow Mallet

2006-05-23T10:28:00.000-07:00

An exquisite weapon
has cast a spell over her, and she
longs for it.

Metal Sort

2006-05-20T21:11:00.000-07:00

Her leather jacket's
fitting sweetly to her frame, and
she feels hard.

Dump Dwellers

2006-05-20T21:07:00.000-07:00

The simmering mountain
of garbage is their whole life,
all they know.

Watch Out

2006-05-20T21:03:00.000-07:00

Warning sign warns
them to remain vigilant, to keep
their eyes peeled.

Kagel Barbells Poem

2006-05-20T20:56:00.000-07:00

They talk incessantly
about strengthening muscles, so that
they may squirt.

Cheetah the Chimp Turns 75

2006-05-20T20:51:00.000-07:00

He runs Hollywood
from his desert ranch, sipping on
banana-kiwi smoothies.

Herz Aus Glas

2006-05-20T20:45:00.000-07:00

Her heart is
made of glass, so I must always
be very careful.

Give Me the Brick

2006-05-20T20:41:00.000-07:00

He felt much
better after they had finally made
their suicide pact.

Very Old Vietnamese Woman With Helmet

2006-05-20T20:34:00.000-07:00

She walks slowly,
and wears a Care Bears bicycle
helmet for kids.

November 2, 1964, 3:20pm (pst)

2006-05-20T20:26:00.000-07:00

Dr. Bill Turman
grabs my head, and pulls me out
of my mother.

Machine-Gunned

2006-05-20T20:20:00.000-07:00

She often dreams
of lining them all up against
the basement wall.

Robot in Bus Stop

2006-05-20T20:10:00.000-07:00

As police watch,
the man with the gun begins to
do the robot.

The Grey Goat

2006-05-19T13:05:00.000-07:00

God and the
grey goat lounge around, drinking rum
all month long.

Snap Election

2006-05-19T12:48:00.000-07:00

The Supreme Court
does as it is told, and the loser is installed
the next day.

Sleeping Rough

2006-05-19T12:44:00.000-07:00

A pile of
passed-out homeless men blocks
the library doors.

Carcass Saw

2006-05-19T12:40:00.000-07:00

He tells me
his best seller is a saw for efficiently
removing stiff limbs.

Buster and Croaker

2006-05-19T11:38:00.000-07:00

Her machines snap
and coo and shimmy across the
dusty theatre stage.

Garb Downside

2006-05-19T07:43:00.000-07:00

The cab driver
hits me up for stock tips
as we motor.

Fingermen

2006-03-19T18:07:00.000-08:00

Informants never sleep,
so we swing around and visit in
the wee hours.

Poison-Pen Circle

2006-03-19T17:57:00.000-08:00

Her club circulates
false rumors in letters and emails, to
wreck neighborhood marriages.

Murderer Within (Awakening Poem)

2006-03-19T17:55:00.000-08:00

They loosen ropes
that bind the killers who patiently wait,
deep inside them.

Brautigan Gee-Whiz Ratio

2006-03-19T17:45:00.000-08:00

My poetry mechanic
adjusted the timing belts, and now the
words are jumping.

Nihilism Without Despair

2006-03-11T10:43:00.000-08:00

We're doing shots
of gasoline, all night long, in
the match factory.

Down to the Wire

2006-02-21T19:12:00.000-08:00

The needle's ready,
and the fax machine and the hotline
are dead silent.

Casting About

2006-02-20T22:11:00.000-08:00

She was fishing
for feedback on her hair, but he
just wouldn't bite.

Mighty Bedbug

2006-02-19T19:05:00.000-08:00

250 million years
later, bedbugs around the globe
begin the takeover.

Robot Psychiatry

2006-02-18T13:41:00.000-08:00

Her robot won't
stop crying, and she's at the end
of her rope.

Poem for Dick Rodgers, Polka King

2006-02-17T20:37:00.000-08:00

Max's Polka sends
her into an ecstatic frenzy, and she
cannot stop laughing.

Many Happy Returns

2006-02-16T22:29:00.000-08:00

They say they'll
never go back to River Forest, they're
headed to Berlin.

The Golden Arm

2006-02-15T14:27:00.000-08:00

Finally the drummer
buys a drum machine, and starts
to program beats.

Showroom Dummies

2006-02-14T19:24:00.000-08:00

Right on cue,
they recite the lines that they
have been given.

Potion 7

2006-02-13T20:20:00.000-08:00

My flask glitters
in the glow of the dying campfire,
and we drink.

Resist Religion Poem

2006-02-12T13:19:00.000-08:00

She shouted something
about every war stemming from religion,
then ran off.

Dungeonable Girl

2006-02-11T15:15:00.000-08:00

He likes the
way she gets herself into fixes,
like a cat.

No Joy in Mudville

2006-02-10T18:13:00.000-08:00

There were fears
of mass suicide after the Series ended
in utter collapse.

My Best Fiend

2006-02-09T20:08:00.000-08:00

Werner grabs his
pistol, but Kinski just laughs
in his face.

Data Mining

2006-02-08T13:04:00.000-08:00

Men doggedly sift
through her records, pasting bits
into a report.

Squealers

2006-02-07T21:03:00.000-08:00

Squealers and snakes
are ascending, and everyone is
now en garde.

Tumble Off

2006-02-06T13:18:00.000-08:00

They laugh, watching
homes tumble off the eroding cliff,
into the sea.

Fuzzy

2006-02-05T19:21:00.000-08:00

She struggles to
remember the shape and the feel
of his hands.

Insertions

2006-02-04T20:35:00.000-08:00

She thinks doctors
may have left behind objects,
deep inside her.

My Sketches of the Prophet

2006-02-03T20:33:00.000-08:00

Religious savages froth
and scream, convulsing like some
mass shock treatment.

Late-Night Pact

2006-02-02T18:58:00.000-08:00

George and Tony
agree to invade no matter what, and
then they toast.

Forest Basin Alight

2006-02-01T15:41:00.000-08:00

He watches flames
licking the sky, and he thinks: "now
I command fire."

Checkmate

2006-01-31T12:25:00.000-08:00

He passes time,
and time passes, until finally
there's an impasse.

Stunted

2006-01-30T13:13:00.000-08:00

She gets stuck
inside of her sentences and
can't get out.

Pelican

2006-01-29T21:06:00.000-08:00

A pelican stands
on the hood of her Lexus,
so she waits.

Slogging Through

2006-01-28T12:55:00.000-08:00

They plow on,
empty months piling on, and
on and on.

Earmarked

2006-01-27T21:20:00.000-08:00

She set him
aside, in a straw box,
for another time.

Spare Me, Pal

2006-01-26T19:55:00.000-08:00

Cut to the
chase, and make your point,
or I'm gone.

Clubhouse Buddha

2006-01-25T15:47:00.000-08:00

The tense players
gather around his locker
just before gametime.

Blanket of Ash

2006-01-24T22:44:00.000-08:00

The winds shift,
giant dunes of soot and ash
begin to form.

Fancy

2006-01-23T16:41:00.000-08:00

She fancies him,
but she wishes that he didn't
spit so much.

Strangle Precious

2006-01-22T14:27:00.000-08:00

Most artists make
her want to puke, with their
navel-gazing blather.

Loss-Makers

2006-01-21T19:21:00.000-08:00

Rust belt factories
go the way of the dodo bird,
one by one.

When Rubber Hits Road

2006-01-20T19:02:00.000-08:00

The end begins
with a whimper, and closes
with a bang.

Gagger

2006-01-19T22:28:00.000-08:00

Her unfortunate nickname
was a result of her two months
in web porn.

The Sleepwalker

2006-01-18T18:59:00.000-08:00

I notice twigs
in her hair, and dried mud
on her cheek.