Proposed Questions for the Naturalization Test
Are you the color of Congress, the Senate, and the tacky walls of the Oval Office? Do you speak the right language, is it with the right...
Home for the Holidays
Mother told me, her roundness as the Earth, “You should watch your weight.” #2018 #IrisEMcPherson #poetry
A Rejected Women's Razor Ad
The all new redesigned Venus razor will give you the smoothest shave you’ll ever get and sits in the endless repertoire of beauty that’s...
Perennials
His fingers across the clay ridges Of my valleys, because he Likes the way it sounds. § I’ve been showing him where I hide My...
████████
We see, therefore, how the modern modes of production and of exchange. by An oppressed class ████████ historically, has played a most...
Permission
I don’t want to forget. I want it to linger. To make a nest in my body And burrow in the depths of my being. Until it nibbles its way...
When it Hits
A man without a job Parades around with a rusty old car key And judgements far too abrasive to be helpful. His pockets full of scratch...
Thrones of Whiskey and Piss
I. Whiskey Ship There is a frozen piss stain in the snow Beneath his hips and betwixt his haunches. Just a bum, who succumbed to the...
No Words
You wanted so badly to show me All of your brain tissue on that couch Sticky with tears on the television as It moved in the wind in...
Transcendentalism
Sybil waits for answers with one hand raised high and the other pressed firmly against her neck. Her pulse gasps in time with internal...
