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Dec 29, 20241 min read
"Forever" • Charli XCX (by Nicholas Maassen)
You popped the hood of my skull like your 1994 Geo Prizm.


Dec 29, 20243 min read
"Rugged Country" • Japanese Breakfast (by Joseph Linscott)
The Devil first arrived dressed as the landscaper.


Dec 29, 20243 min read
"Wounded" • Third Eye Blind (by Guy Cramer)
I thought about the severed thumb plunging inside your third eye.


Dec 29, 20242 min read
"Bolero" • Ravel (by Brendan Todt)
When will the end come, they ask? Will she please make it stop?


Dec 29, 20243 min read
"Jersey Girl" • Bruce Springsteen (by Angela Townsend)
"I wear sweatpants proclaiming my seat “Sweet.” A new tattoo spontaneously appears every time I am underestimated."


Dec 29, 20241 min read
"Gunpowder & Lead" • Miranda Lambert (by Charlie M. Case)
A raised voice can mean different things, but you get too used to it, right? The warnings? That little tick upward in volume?


Dec 29, 20242 min read
Literary Mixtape Volume 20
On resolutions.


Nov 24, 20243 min read
Special Edition: LOCAL SCENES
For the scene kids.


Nov 24, 20243 min read
"Picnic" • Taxidermists (by Brian Engles)
Taxidermists didn’t play ‘Picnic’ that night.


Nov 24, 20243 min read
3 poems by Romy Rhoades Ewing
I wanna make you feel safe.


Nov 24, 20241 min read
"Untitled" • Morgan Freeman (by Caleb Bethea)
Confession booth darkness. Just our dumbass voices.


Nov 24, 20242 min read
"The Failed Success" • The Massacre at Sundown (by Justin Carter)
This one time Josh got kicked in the throat.


Nov 24, 20244 min read
"Hindsight Is 20/20" • Talking Backwards (by Bethany Cutkomp)
But where did they spawn from?


Sep 29, 20243 min read
"Lonely Is a Man Without Love" • Engelbert Humperdinck (by Angela James)
I want to yell at them that not every man is a degenerate Don Juan.


Sep 29, 20243 min read
"Thank You For the Venom" • My Chemical Romance (by Paige Cook)
Radiant girl, warm and hot and close to me.


Sep 29, 20242 min read
"Selbstportrait mit Kater" • Einstürzende Neubauten (by Kimmy Joy)
the meteorologist and the speaker of the poem are making out in the middle of the parking lot.


Sep 29, 20243 min read
"Wet Dream" • Wet Leg (by Avee Chaudhuri)
The squirrels clawed at the fine china.


Sep 29, 20242 min read
"Destroyed By Hippie Powers" • Car Seat Headrest (by V Garmon Koski)
The wild blue unthinkable happens.


Sep 29, 20243 min read
"M+M's" • blink-182 (by Ashley Kirkland)
I was never girly enough for the girls or boy enough for the boys.


Sep 29, 20243 min read
Literary Mixtape Vol. 19
On editing.
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