The shadow messages from passing traffic shine through the bedroom curtains to flash their plans onto my ceiling. They tell me that things should be clean. The darkness of my room reveals all of the world’s imperfections. But what is clean nobody agrees. I used to think the smell of rotting pine needles in the […]
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Relationship Status, Tenth Month by Matthew Smart
During sex neither of them said much. But afterwards she would sometimes talk in strange nonsense strings of words, random and unrelated. If it was good she could go on for a long time, her eyes closed, her mouth rambling and running through a litany of nonsense. The first time it happened he thought that […]
You Will Surely Live Forever Now, Right Two Prose Poems by Matthew Smart
You Will Surely Live Forever Now, Right So I’ve seen God run against the traffic like a cheap thriller car chase villain. God runs like a bitch and I’m not surprised since jokers win way too many contests of chance. All I know is our true love waits for our eyes to drop on them […]
Calamity by Matthew Smart
The sound of the TV from the next room reminds him that he should go to bed as should his wife. The sound of the newsfeed gave up hours ago, defaulted to infomercial desperation. She’s probably asleep or else she’s much more interested in new meat grilling technologies than he expected. Last time he checked […]