Elizabeth Harper 12/21/21 Elizabeth Harper 12/21/21

S&M Santa Claus (Repost from 2019)

Guest User 11/18/21 Guest User 11/18/21

The Destroyed Object Is Resurrected - A Prosepoem

I feel better at home, though when I go into the kitchen the staff have turned into simian creatures. Not quite human, not quite monkey. Something gleefully in between, well-dressed as ever.

Contributing Writer 11/2/21 Contributing Writer 11/2/21

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

Contributing Writer 10/21/21 Contributing Writer 10/21/21

I Was a Teenage Space Billionaire

I built a city in the desert.
Lithium and plastic and dry cellulose.
Autonomous flying cars.
Drone-delivered impossible everything,
Nourishing our body-positive bodies.
Streaming, bingeable Obama-produced documentaries
In every remote classroom.

There was even a monorail.

Guest User 9/4/21 Guest User 9/4/21

Ghost Women In Another Vegas - A Poem

This is better than the last testament to her will, which has been reduced to a manuscript hidden in a rare and rusting trunk. Frothing and varnished, it waits.

Guest User 8/8/21 Guest User 8/8/21

Dawn In The Parking Lot of Average Dreams - A Poem

Dark Gravel

Flattened Cardboard Burger Boxes

Used Bandaids

Slabs of Tire Rubber

Splintered Toothpicks

Exploded Ketchup Packets

Elizabeth Harper 7/1/21 Elizabeth Harper 7/1/21

Alternatives to and variations on the slogan “Defund the Police,” because, let’s face it, it could use some improving, or at least some explanation and elaboration

Could We At Least Get Rid Of The Neo-Nazi, Racist, Fascist, White Supremacist Police Officers? Please? Pretty Please? Is That Really So Much To Ask? People In Other Professions Who Exhibit Racist And Violent Behavior Don’t Get To Hold Onto Their Jobs. They Get Fired. Otherwise It’s A Public Relations Nightmare.

Elizabeth Harper 5/29/21 Elizabeth Harper 5/29/21

Fuck Your Resume

Fuck your resume
Fuck what's gone
before

Elizabeth Harper 4/24/21 Elizabeth Harper 4/24/21

Nice Things Are Getting Ruined All The Time

Changed my password to ILLFUXYRMTHR69

And walked over to no jukebox but the one behind my

Eyes touched my head full of dye, bleating

Nice things are getting ruined all the time.

Guest User 4/11/21 Guest User 4/11/21

Flowers from the Faucet at Midnight - A Poem

I’m nobody and you’re the anybody you’ve always

wanted to be. As long as we’re warm silhouettes in this

picture we have a piece of everything all to ourselves.

Elizabeth Harper 3/28/21 Elizabeth Harper 3/28/21

Authority is Always Wrong

Elizabeth Harper 3/20/21 Elizabeth Harper 3/20/21

Unity is Not on My Wish List of Abstract Ideals to Strive for

Unity at what cost?

The indignity of going along to get along?

Freedom is on the top of my wish list.
But different elements come to mind.
Freedom from what? Freedom to do what?

Guest User 2/21/21 Guest User 2/21/21

Night Out, 2025

Is it Friday? A day hazing over fast into the good long while of night. Both are so happy to have had themselves. To have been connected.

This was an age after the rooftop days were over. Removed and exposed from the vantage of twenty-or-more stories.

Elizabeth Harper 2/16/21 Elizabeth Harper 2/16/21

I Love You and I Want You to Suck My Dick

I hate all your ugly, stupid, too fat, too thin, too short, too tall,
too rich, too poor, too humorless, too pathetic, too unintellectual,
too pedestrian, too suburban, too mainstream, too short-sighted,
too ignorant, too conniving, too dishonest, too two-faced,
TOO UGLY girlfriends.

Elizabeth Harper 1/21/21 Elizabeth Harper 1/21/21

What's Your Poison?

All revolutions squashed or co-opted.
Capitalism's rejects find solace
in the community of 12-Step programs,
addiction as group identity.

Elizabeth Harper 12/29/20 Elizabeth Harper 12/29/20

Nightmare Carpet

Elizabeth Harper 11/10/20 Elizabeth Harper 11/10/20

Love in the Time of Pandemic

I want to inhale you, smell your hair, rub my cheek against yours, hold you close and dance in the moonlight

I want to talk to you, tell you everything: the important stuff, the trivial stuff, the mind-blowing stuff, the boring stuff

I want to hold your hand, sit in silence, sip from the same glass, eat from the same plate, sleep in the same bed

Elizabeth Harper 11/5/20 Elizabeth Harper 11/5/20

The World is a Fucking Torture Chamber

The world is a fucking torture chamber,
endless videos of shlock horror porn,
or, actually, it's more subtle than that,
endless cubicles of particleboard,
computer screens, perfunctory greetings.
I see people and I want to sodomize, rape them,
kill them in their sleep, or wake them up,
just to see the surprise and terror on their stupid faces
and to puncture their flesh to see the contortions of pain.

Elizabeth Harper 11/2/20 Elizabeth Harper 11/2/20

Perfectionism

Elizabeth Harper 10/6/20 Elizabeth Harper 10/6/20

Smelling of Sex, of Summer, of Love