and now i teach street
kids from akron how to
use google docs, and
how to express themselves
What’s your name? Like an oak
I want to carve a heart
into our washing machine.
as all my lovers
fly out of my chest
We started as open, NOT poly. This was a very important distinction to us, despite not having a working definition of either types of relationships. It was, we both agreed, substantially less cringe
Definitely one poet holdover is just being a magpie for weird
Mysterious beauty spot the farra on cheek.
By March of 2016, my cousin Josh and I were practically flat broke. We’d been having an incestuous and adulterous affair, one that elevated his title to “cuzband” (he hated that term). Four years
There was a week when my grandma was gone, I had the whole place to myself, was drinking the regular Coca Cola classic and the half sized baby Coca Cola and brought the Abercrombie pictures out in the open on the second floor. I meditated.
Sometimes I think I won’t understand what it is that I’ve lost until I write a book about it.
The great neon calamity of his own life exhausts him.
I’m interested in these conversations more than anything else, moments in which we care for and about each other in a world that says nothing’s more important than self-care after a productive day at work, where we’re constantly pit against each other, forced to compete with our peers to earn and preserve the right to exist.
She wanders a Sisyphean circuit around Berlin: to meetings with immigration lawyers, uninspiring parties, lame poetry readings.
The currency of self-loathing is everything you’ve ever said.
One night I was so drunk, I couldn’t feel my face.
her lips run right off her head
she wets the bed in stereo
Did you know emus have two sets of eyelids? One for blinking, one for dust.
Everything’s fuzzing in every direction, the flowers and the water and the stars, and the pizza is impossibly good.
Everything would be fine, sort of, if she could close this deal.
Ruth Madievsky’s debut novel All-Night Pharmacy has everything I want from a book: a toxic sister relationship, countless nights at a seedy LA nightclub, and an unexpected sapphic romance. After her
There is a strength of purpose, I suppose, a fortitude and integrity, in simply admitting yourself to be a malevolent presence skulking the dingy alleyways of your own life.
I was drinking bitters and soda with lemon, my new signature drink. It has .03% alcohol, less than a bottle of kombucha.
It would clog up the bag and you would throw the whole thing into the sea
There’s no amount of $$$ you could offer me
To shut my mouth
He produces a handgun from under the seat, displays it, points it up toward the sunroof.
I couldn't look in the mirror because I didn't recognize myself and I was terrified. Not a metaphor for becoming a new mom - I actually could not recognize myself because I had a brand new rare and severe psychiatric condition called depersonalization derealization disorder where recognizing yourself in the mirror is no longer an option.
