For Michael You grip your youngest son by his two ankles and peel him open from his diaper like a lid from a tin can. He is rolled back, his rubbery bottom aimed at the sky, so you can clean the ample spattering of shit between his cheeks. You get some on your hand, but […]
Issue 91
Peter Schireson: Love Poem
I remember one winter evening walking uptown together after I’d dined on a big plate of pork enchiladas, and I farted, and you said, “I know.”
Amy Saul-Zerby: You Should Probably Quit Your Job
when telling your friends about work is the only good thing about it. You should probably quit your job when you are spending almost as much as you are making at your job on healthcare. But most importantly, you should quit your job when your job involves reading porn in an office setting for 45 […]
Amy Saul-Zerby: SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER NOTHING IS WHAT YOU THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE BUT THAT IS OKAY
I’ll be twenty-four twenty-seven next year and I still don’t know and now i know how much time there is in a year but I can count backwards to the day we met and I can’t chart the phases of the moon of the moods that marked my waxing and waning interest the tides that […]
Linwood Rumney: The Uncertainty Principle
—after The Nutty Professor (1996) Beside Eddie Murphy there is always another Eddie Murphy even more convincingly Eddie Murphy than the last Eddie Murphy visited upon you.
Don Riggs: Jupiter Transits My Anus
Jupiter conjunction Uranus, , exact at 19:04, Sept 26 They say to expect a sudden windfall but instead I get an unexpected disaster, which could, I admit, really be a blessing in disguise, but if it is a blessing, the disguise is so good that it has me shaking inwardly deep in my thoracic cavity, […]