Author Archives: voicemailpoems

by Adam Robinson If you are listening to this,something has gone terribly wrong.The dog is barking at the vacuum.The milk has gone offwith the car alarm in the street.I have 36 emails to reply tobut I’m only barking at the void.Bacon costs like six dollars, andit still seems like reality TV isactually going to beContinue reading “The Truth About Facts”

by Lucy M. This is just to sayI still don’t think I fucked with your feelings half as much as you fucked with mineBut if it turns out heartbreak isn’t a zero sum game like thatAnd your hurt isn’t relativeWell then I’m sorry And I don’t know how to say“Don’t feel rejected.In December I wantContinue reading “untitled poem”

by Jos Charles I was always impressed by that motherfucker Dante’s hell, I mean, the sonofabitch names names. I speak Shia Labeouf and the work collapses in on itself in concreteness. I’ve been reading about the timelessness of art lately and wondering when the earth is gonna die and what composition means in the face of it.Continue reading “LOVE LETTER for Shia”

by Rachel Hyman The human body is 90% water. What kind of water would you like, sir? What kind of water are you like? Are you sparkling? Do you bubble over, ebullient, make people feel real nice now? Are you mineral? What rocks are in you? Is your stomach strong? Weak stomachs indicate weak wills.Continue reading “BODY OF WATER”

by Shawn Berman You say, ‘I can do both.’ I say, ‘come over’ you say, ‘okay, where do you live’ and I say, ‘same place as before,’ and you say, ‘oh I remember.’ And I know you do because you pull up in a really shitty mini van. It’s blue and it looks like aContinue reading “It’s like that time in high school when we ditched class to have sex at the coffee shop”

by Dalton Day We have become a coralreef, like you’d see in one of those nature    documentaries. You want to try to openand close your hands, but you can’t. Welcometo your new spectrum of sensation. Except,    we have become a bomb. When we explode,everyone within a 12-mile radius will beharpooned in invisible, painless shrapnel.    There is nothing weContinue reading “Ephemera, Again”

by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza i’ve figured out what my past means. i’ve driven my car off the side of a cliff in five hundred dreams. i’ve held my hands out into the night air while laughingand screaming hysterically. i’ve said “fuck you” in person to exactly one cop. i’ve been grainy black and white closedContinue reading “untitled poem”

by Emily Morse If you break my heartI will have to make a new plan for the zombie apocalypseAnd that really sucksBecause it was a really good planThat I was kind enough to share So maybe I won’tAs maybe our eyes will meetAs we loot Sam’s Outdoor OutfittersTogether, separatelyBut make no mistakeIf it comes downContinue reading “Zombie Apocalypse Love Poem”

by Fiona Helmsley When you have to run your dishwasher three times in order to get the plates clean,You should probably just do them by hand.I bought my child Flintstone vitamins,Then ate them all, like candy.In the same way that Picasso had his Blue Period, then later, his Black Period,I will have my Vindictive Period.It’sContinue reading “Vagaries (for B.R.)”

by Andrew Campana Hi gorgeous, how are you!I’m really excited to work on you—look at this new hair colour!It really makes your skin tone just look luminous and amazing.We’ve got a lot of work to do, though, honey.What I want to do is even out your skin tone—you have GORGEOUS skin—I want to highlight theContinue reading “Five Minute Faces – as Carmindy, the Makeup Artist from What Not to Wear”