La La Vetala
I first saw her at the stoplights by the cemetery. She was staring from the greyhound like a fine porcelain relic. Past and future choking in her silt-brown eyes, fell out of them just like a river.
![Watching the Black Death sequence in BELLADONNA OF SADNESS [Yamamoto, 1973] for the first time / Some say self-love is a skill](https://www.miserytourism.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/selflove-400x343.png)
Watching the Black Death sequence in BELLADONNA OF SADNESS [Yamamoto, 1973] for the first time / Some say self-love is a skill
the slowly wasting
away into nothingness,
Misery Loves Company – January 14, 2022
The above video is an archive of the latest edition of the Misery Loves Company social reading series.
A (Backwoods) Noir Moral Parable About Death
You catch yourself staring at the clock waiting for 5, the start of your 4HL. “Don’t look at the clock!” Your elementary school wrestling coaches’ raspy voice rings out from the catacombs of your memories.
4 Poems
kathy found his name on a thumb tack board in the grocery store
she stopped in for some expensive cheese
right after she spent 300 dollars at the stationary store
and about a grand on wine
Hurricane season
Walt Disney slaps the inner swamp face of Orlando across the cheek
“I made you beautiful dammit”
Nithoggr / Crying Pants Day
There is a snake beneath the tree
twined into the roots
Giving Dreams the Chance to Fly
We are bumping around inside a Nawab APC – fresh off the line from Kroch Labs – as it negotiates difficult terrain.
Misery Loves Company – January 7, 2022
The above video is an archive of the latest edition of the Misery Loves Company social reading series.
Panzram’s Double
Emma’s yapping about some school shooting that happened last year in Connecticut that I hadn’t heard about.