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VICELAND AD#57

Every 15 minutes, an elephant is killed for its tusks. Your body makes cholesterol while you sleep. Somewhere someone whom you used to know…

Apr 29, 2016

VICELAND AD#222

VICELAND AD#222

All of our names will be plural, and they’ll be penned on napkins, soon. And you with your angular face and your bony elbows, stitched into…

Apr 2, 2018

VICELAND AD#1225

VICELAND AD#1225

“St. Nick be damned. Older still, I’m not getting through this winter very well. Up to the scratchy strung-on beard in doubt. A cigarette…

Dec 23, 2017

VICELAND AD#100

VICELAND AD#100

Ah. I picked you up for a song. What good did it ever do me? Yes and yeah and no and nah. It’s flyswatter weather, and we’re the flies…

Sep 30, 2017

VICELAND AD#415

VICELAND AD#415

Bits and tears and strings of cloud huddle up there best they can in the testy pearl of a moping teal sky. Another stay in these legs…

Sep 29, 2017

VICELAND AD#____

VICELAND AD#____

the refuge of the incompetent like crayon murals on spackled drywall stiff lowers and a pack of sergeants sung whole for less of a grumpy…

Aug 20, 2017

VICELAND AD#3.14

VICELAND AD#3.14

She kissed you like she meant it, and saved her hugs for stray dogs and bandbox miscreants. She’d rarely tell you about anything important…

Jun 25, 2017

VICELAND AD #0000000

VICELAND AD #0000000

We are all part-time tenants on this big, old oblate spheroid of ours. Get the most out of it while you can. Home was just another place…

Apr 16, 2017

VICELAND AD#11

There’s a player piano in the bathroom cranking out Debbie Reynolds numbers. A prattling, moody check-paying attitude crops the scene in a…

Jan 8, 2017

VICELAND AD #1,117

VICELAND AD #1,117

Asleep off the wheel. Rain’s not a forethought. A wince away from another hairpin’s disaster. A clipped ear from a lug nut’s turn. We rig…

Jan 1, 2017

VICELAND AD#714

VICELAND AD#714

Like reading lips in a foreign movie. An address to the season. Presented with history’s horrible precedents. Elect a burro. Fuck you and…

Dec 20, 2016

VICELAND AD#15

Some new study reveals that being born greatly increases your chances of dying, and agreeing seems biased at best. Even Henry Heimlich is…

Dec 17, 2016

VICELAND AD#8

What do you know about being in love? Nothing — that’s what. I tell you, it’s a dulled edge of forgetfulness that grows wings around my…

Dec 11, 2016

VICELAND AD#0101010

VICELAND AD#0101010

Sometimes there is just nothing to expect. The rumble and raw awe of airplanes. Shoes-in-the-dryer thumping in an upstairs room. Recall is…

Dec 10, 2016

VICELAND AD#510

VICELAND AD#510

Thirty-six dead and Trump’s on his way to the top. Who’s left to not be counted? In? There’s your out. A forklift of missed opportunity…

Dec 5, 2016

VICELAND AD #805

VICELAND AD #805

“There’s another ice age coming, so won’t you hold me in your arms?”

Nov 19, 2016

VICELAND AD#408

VICELAND AD#408

The leafy expanse of accents chanted from the top of descending loops over sped up laughter: inspiration’s hacksaw delivering flinty sparks…

Nov 16, 2016

VICELAND AD #1,113

VICELAND AD #1,113

New York’s calling. Nobody’s home. Take this the wrong way. That hairpin turn of thought that might be leading to a madrigal’s scales is…

Nov 13, 2016

VICELAND AD#115

VICELAND AD#115

Sour waters of confinement, I shall not sing for thee. But, let me ask around. Maybe there are forgeries better than this. Me? I always…

Nov 9, 2016

VICELAND AD#10

Let’s only elect librarians to congress, let the dishwashers have a say in the senate, and put some drunks and outlaws on the Supreme…

Oct 29, 2016

VICELAND AD#28

When home is so far from home, and you miss 1983. Crushed tulips in the piano garden. Grainy dissonance of peeled plums. Errors in the…

Oct 16, 2016

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