Xylan Johnson 9/16/26 Xylan Johnson 9/16/26

Wishful thinking

“Take me back to oblivious January[…] A time full of daydreams and restless nights”

Xylan Johnson 9/9/26 Xylan Johnson 9/9/26

Letters on Love

Self begins exactly like that paragraph ended … with a question, an inevitably shifting question and outcome.

Xylan Johnson 9/2/26 Xylan Johnson 9/2/26

Sainted

I ain’t never been pure white. But I sure as hell ain’t bloodied and scared beyond the usual.

Xylan Johnson 8/25/26 Xylan Johnson 8/25/26

Mother Mo(u)rningstar

I’d sing for you… If i had a better time off this page. Scream to see it through…

Xylan Johnson 8/22/26 Xylan Johnson 8/22/26

Living in a Nightmare

Murder and genocide are NOT patriotism. It’s dominance. Erasure is a play on power, and America does the shit well.

David Himmel 7/22/26 David Himmel 7/22/26

Hazy, I Pee, Eh?

Life comes clearer on a hot, hazy summer day.
Sunburnt shoulders hunched from carrying the weight of the world
And the weight of your child and his laughter.

Elizabeth Harper 7/15/26 Elizabeth Harper 7/15/26

My Best Drinking Buddies Have Joined AA

My best drinking buddies have joined AA,
given up the bottle, sobered up, gotten on the wagon
without falling off.

Contributing Writer 7/15/26 Contributing Writer 7/15/26

Las Vegas Tour Company

on the corner
of Casino Center and Colorado with the studded thongs and the leashes around their slim necks and those high- waisted hot-pants hiked up to that sinched waist terrified by the possibility of beauty, while forgetting what
it might
be
...slowly
losing
life

Elizabeth Harper 7/14/26 Elizabeth Harper 7/14/26

Cruelest Curse

Elizabeth Harper 5/14/26 Elizabeth Harper 5/14/26

Cruelest Curse

Elizabeth Harper 5/12/26 Elizabeth Harper 5/12/26

Poem About My Mother

Elizabeth Harper 12/31/25 Elizabeth Harper 12/31/25

When the Fascists Come

Don Hall 11/19/25 Don Hall 11/19/25

The Holy Effing Balance

A semi-poetic, unfocused, whiskey-soaked rant about the sweet spot between isms and that our choices in ideologues is a pack of false shaman preaching horseshit.