Blackboulder

The looks that got you killed.  Can’t say you didn’t deserve it.  Look at you.The lie sliding so easy off your face and straight into the cavity…… Read more “Bloody Underwear”

When I grow up, I want a nose like a potato with gin blossoms aglow. When I’m a big boy, I want knee replacements, because I’m on…… Read more “When I Grow Up”

Reprinted from a pamphlet handed to me by homeless, former Ohio History teacher, Trick Swabb, who claims to have been fired from Southwestern City Schools on six…… Read more “Wapakoneta: A Schismatic Hidden History”

You and me Under a tree Feet in sand Hold my hand   Gravitate I burn, I break There is no loss We gather moss   Bent…… Read more “The Cost”

My mind is on an eternal black midi loop; it’s always on fire and I’m always trying to extinguish it. I call bullshit. I can’t sit still.…… Read more “#HateMate”

wHAT ABOUT THE BALLOTS?!?!?!! He’s going to cry in the car (blowing nose emoji) Summer/Fall/Winter/Spring’s ruined by all the bogus virus. All the fairs are cancelled. All…… Read more “Plague Cantos 1”

Frater Perkins was an ex-marine and had an ex-marine way of doing things. A stocky man of superhuman strength and endurance, he was the most militant of…… Read more “Physical Training”

Meanwhile, on a dead end street in Hilltop USA, a teen mom unhinged- daddy gone trap her, keep her.  She makes a terrible maternal translator after the…… Read more “Plague Three Point Oh: A Journal (Pt. 2)”

3/19/20 Waiting for my stepfather to pick me up for work. Mom’s picking me up after. No more COTA for me for a minute. They’re retirees… what…… Read more “Plague Three Point Oh: A Journal (Pt. 1)”