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smoke break

there are distractions. infighting on the left,
letters on neon signs blowing a fuse.
your biblical name was Languishing.
boys like to tell me who’s a weird guy,
I tell them they can live without music.
you look like you belong on a sunken ship,
glamorous and gilled, voice like a water chestnut.
I pretend I am as beautiful as the people in car commercials.
I revel in the coincidence of an old dog named Emily.
what ever happened to coincidence?
the worst person in me is the professor.
youtube suggests deep healing water sounds.
I wonder if the goldfish understands itself
as the troubadour of the bowl.

time is not a losing unit
even if we invented it to be possessed

what if I told you we had time
because time is made up
like everything else
and because we have it
like everything else

I love time because I love you
you are now in your time on earth
we are durating
observing the weekendhood
checking the clock

people make movies about time
the time it takes to make a movie
is not reflected in the length of
the movie itself
we don’t have all day

what if I told you time isn’t
leisure or luxury or even money
it’s just something we all
seem to agree on
at least some

Two Poems
L Scully

An Aerodynamic Destiny
Charles March

2 poems in morning sun
Kama Rose

2 poems
Kyle Grewing

Two Poems
Navratra

Surreal Evening

Aidan Chafe

Two Poems
Vyacheslav Konoval

Last House on The Block
Lin Elizabeth

Three Poems
Francesca Kritikos

The Language Between Us
Diana Ruzova

MAKING LIFE OUT OF CELERY & TULIPS
Tyler Dillow

V for Vinegar
Trijit Mukherjee

You Can’t Block the Porn
Ron Riekki

Mad
Tiyasha Kranha

Khakis
J.D.

Two Self Portraits

Nicholas O’Donnell

The Scar On My Head
Orest Yaslinskiy

Two Poems
Beatrice Ashton-Lelliot

Killing It
Andrew Tran

Thick
M.V. Preti

Two Poems
Vyarka Kozareva

Joey Song Loses
His Eyes
Jihoon Park

For Myself
Zalene Adler

Goons Romance
Jason Teal

Somewhere Around Alva
Timothy Tarkelly

The Ant, the Seed,
the Watermelon in Me.
Wayland Tracy

What I Knew
Tyler Dempsey

February 2006
Rebecca Wittman

A Good Year
Tyler Dillow

Pretty Things Pretty Forever
Robert Warf

Four Poems
Dimitri Karakostas

Two Poems
John Anton Malinowski

Cornucopia
Seve Christian

Four Poems
Jonathan Bakken

Four Poems
Natalie Ann Armstrong

Two Poems
Karlos Rene Ayala

Pitiless Refuse
Austin Smith