Fiction & Poetry
Category5 Poems
and I heard
this lawyer say
“oh my god that’s every lawyer’s dream,
to represent someone on death row
who is facing execution by the state”
GIRLS IN BIKINIS ON ROLLER SKATES IN OUTER SPACE VERSUS BIKINI GIRLS WITH MACHINE GUNS
Strike team on deck booting up. This is it, ladies.
Three Poems
I hatched from a leather reptile-style egg just to grow envious of the gelatinous eggs of neighbor amphibians.
Cohortage
I’d heard the rumor about the woman who cussed you out if you called her.
Johnny had a dream about the devil
I am at the Walmart
and I feel dead
From Form
Living indifferent.
Another harmless genocide:
something small, something large, something spurious
Tryouts
Tentacles, once fingers, squirm madly from my left hand.
First Contact
Narian is alright, for an alien.
Arrythmia
Even before I started charging whatever I could get away with, I dated a man who liked to hurt me during sex.
thousandyardstare
In a skirmish line, the squad runs around the wire of the base. We will get gassed today.