quick weeks

THERE IS NOTHING TO FEEL SAD ABOUT UNLESS YOU ARE ALONE ON A SATURDAY NIGHT INSIDE AN EMPTY DRUGSTORE READING THE INSTRUCTIONS A BOX OF STORE BRAND TEETH-WHITENING TOOTHPASTE

broadway-lafayette is a rotting field

at 3 o’clock in the morning. wheels

on cement are knee and knuckle blows

to my head. the weekends catalogue

library cards of drugstore prescriptions

prescribing foxy starlets poison. i would

eat poison if i could. i don’t think i could

be a ghost in whiteface floating above

the sidewalk like a miniature constellation

of small dwarf stars heating the globe

4.37 light years away where there is no

vodka, tomato juice, and celery, or plebs

testing the limits of mammalian mortality.

RoboCop f%cked gena davis

& 9 months later

she gave birth

to a duracell battery.

the fall issue of the lower east side review is available for pre-order. i will have poems there. yeehaw. i wish it really was fall already. it's going to be 100 degrees in brooklyn tomo. what the hell is that? maybe i will surround my body with box fans. or maybe i will throw myself into the sea. i think i will flip a coin and decide which. and then i will put the coin in my mouth and swallow the coin. have you heard about the turtle with the wheel for a leg? 23 pounds. his name is gamera. he lives in washington state.

few problems in the world
cannot be solved
without gravy
except obesity

#1

i heard
bill murray's wife
divorced him
because he'd get stoned
all the time and fly
to whatever city
the cubs were playing in that day
without even telling her


#2

john edwards is a shitbag
he cheated on his cancer-ridden wife


#3

remember when paul mccartney
got swindled
by that one-legged bitch?

five noses (ms paint)

94. jon voight butt-dialed spike lee

95. seal hunts bison with a spear

96. kristy alley hates kelly kowpiski

97. fergie armwrestles like a hogan

98. kate hudson maced her husband

99. mila kunis is a rare venereal disease

100. flea hotboxed a police checkpoint

ima few days late on this. the july issue of dark sky magazine is up. i have admired dark sky from afar for a long time. now i am happy to have a story included in a stellar issue containing the work of roxanne carter, dan pinkerton, feliz lucia molina, mark leidner, anthony mccann, kyle mccord, jeannie hoag, gregory sherl, heather christle, zachary schomburg, & tyler vipond (artwork below).

thanks to robert moreira, kevin murphy & the rest of the dark sky team!

read. then go outside. and breathe. you all.

i have been in a remote corner of america.

i saw an otter
& a fox
& water
& many chippewa indians
& not a lot of internet

& my brother took my picture in my aunt's cottage.

& five minutes later i chopped something with an ax


& the spencer dew was kind enough to review oikos.

& the southeastern review was kind enough to publish it.

thanks to spencer.

thanks to the southeastern review.

read the review HERE.

& read more spencer HERE.