the sieve and the sand

Leaving the wheat with the chaff. This is not your mother’s poetry.

switch

by rcribay

imagine a switch that you could
flip to turn day into
night—
shutting the sun off like
a halogen lamp dissipating blue to
black revealing blinking
stars and emptying streets of
people and cars

gone, will be all signs of life
(or at least, into hiding:

beneath rooftops and cotton
Sheets—where i’d really rather
be
with you)

at the flip
of a switch.

POOF! I’m gone! Now I’m back!

by Tucker J. Collins

The greatest part of every trick is the prestige and the end,

Where what has disappeared gets to return to existence.

Now I have disappeared and shall not return until the end of this show.

I will continue to boggle people’s mind with my presence or lack there of until the end

I’m getting smaller

by joshuagrace

No more avoiding,

Getting a healthy sense of

My limitations.

Things that I love

by Julio Chapluzki

I love my new dvr
taping everything near and far
making me wonder how I went through life
devoid of this key to ending strife.

Things that I hate

by Julio Chapluzki

I hate employers that do not
call you back to crush your
dreams and turn you down
because not knowing is
the hardest thing.

things that made us famous, but you’re still nobody

by Roger Mugs

all too many people
shy away from the topic of poo
out of fear of offending
their mothers reading
their works when they finally
publish their own book
someday

the sieve can address it all
from rape to cannibalism
when we want to say pants
we say trousers

if i say trunk, i mean both
the ass of the car
and a garment to cover your ass
whilst you swim

i have boldly gone where you
have not
the deep has never challenged me

hover, and hold
squatting will keep you from having
to squeeze

but dont fall in
or you’ll become famous
you nobody.

reasons our poetry is MUCH better than yours

by Roger Mugs

being clever day in and day
out
for me
is far easier
than maintaining
this heavy
ego

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