TENDER MUTTONS We both ordered mutton, tender. Au jus with your muttons, Your tender muttons? It was au jus unlike no other au jus we’ve ever had in that It was exactly like every other au jus we’ve tenderly had When we’ve almost always never ordered mutton, ever. AMERICA THE DONNER PARTY The smoky ends […]
Commuter trains clanging and dinging, Tizzing birdzz in the ylang-ylang. Skateboard mobsters, Well-traveled, Like wellness travelers, Passing people slumped like fuyu persimmons. I know. Right? Yeah, for sure I didn’t move here to be nonnormative. I heard the new music. I learned how to ollie, Argue politics and track packages. It’s top of mind for
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I LEFT MY CAR IN DEMING I don’t know where I’m going But I’m on the way Making the connections Fully vaccinated Traversing myriads. At stake: irreversibility. TAKING A LOAD OFF Si Situ Situate Situation Situational Situationist Situationalist Sit your ass down Here A Minute THE ANNE CARSON IS STILL THERE At the Little Free
When it comes to evolution, the public fishing pier has its own species of people, its own vocabulary spoken in an array of languages. Crazy experimental meets raw jaw traditional. Bartleby meets the Hunger Artist. Bass the fish meets bass the instrument. The tool belt and the apron meets the National Endowment for the Humanities.
IMPORTANT NOTICE All dimensions are approximate. SWEETGUM The only tree she wishes they’d kept. LIBRARY CAT Whose life already has 8 holds on it, Knows what time the joint closes. A KITCHEN NOTHING SHORT OF Where everyone can chef. QUALITY CANDIDATES Enter through side door. Exit through main door. Crispy, juicy, tender. SHORTCAKE TART Jumps
VACCINE VEXATION Naomi had stopped at Starbucks After running an errand And was suddenly perplexed and alarmed: She couldn’t taste her brown sugar oat milk shaken espresso! Poor Naomi. You didn’t get the jab, did you baby? You didn’t take the jokey-pokey. PIN These PINs haven’t been used yet. Feel free to take one. 5239
I’ve either mentioned this before or will mention it in the future, but it’s worth either preiterating or reiterating that Calvert Journal’s literature pages, poetry from eastern Europe, is a site I enjoy. I copied as best I could one of the recently posted poems. Little Things Written by Anastasia Gavrilovici and translated by Cătălina
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WE NEED A RANDY STARK. IS THERE A RANDY STARK IN THE HOUSE? I’m a Randy Stark. EDNA Nice to see Her in control Of what she Wants to do. CHUBBIER CHECKERZ Knute Apodaca’s “Tribute to The Twist.” BRIDGETTE Happy Birthday! DITMAR SEAGAZE Me choo grrrr. Like I was mentioning She can land. ALEXA Vaccine.
(And other epigrams by Ambrose Bierce.) When you have made a catalogue of your friend’s faults it is only fair to supply him with a duplicate, so that he may know yours. The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity. The philosopher’s profoundest conviction is that which he is most reluctant
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The demise of the written word (humanities in general) has been predicted for decades. Yet one literary magazine this year received more entries than ever before to its annual poetry chapbook contest; think about it: during the time of Covid, a poetry chapbook contest drew thousands of entries. Who these days would identify as a