This is a public service announcement, addressing the community’s widespread unrest due to the city’s neglect of a long running issue of serial crimes throughout the city. Crimes include but are not limited to: breaking and entry, robbery, assault, and defamation. Victims have suffered emotional and economic loss, many are…

The streets were quiet these days. Trash rolling peacefully down the street, with few pedestrians and street sweepers to interrupt their afternoon stroll. Calyer was floating west toward the waterfront when he was greeted by a Big Gulp named Kent who had seen better days. …

The spotlights blind her as the host asks her the million dollar question What is the one most important thing our society needs? I believe what society truly needs is a world where everyone has access to porcelain bowls where their excrement sets forth on an aquatic journey and flows into a plant where it gets processed well enough for us to use again. Just kidding, it’s world peace. Even though the world pees, they would really benefit much more from other countries not threatening each other with nuclear weapons that would wipe out our entire population.

The end of life is probably nothing like what we picture it to be. Is it in a quiet hospital old and wrinkly with loved ones surrounding us, or is it a chaotic turbulent end where fear eventually settles into peace. What are our last words? I write a lot…

Ray always sat in the front of the room right next to the pencil sharpener, books perfectly stacked, hi-lighters always standing upright ready to mark importance. Always 15 minutes early studying his homework from the night before. Angela always sat in the third row, perfectly out of view from where…

A pudgy boy comes into frame — finishing his ice cream and brownies though his classmates have barely begun chewing. Hurriedly, he walks up to the lunch lady and asks for more. Request denied and ridicule served, he then walks back to his seat where he slumps down, rubbing his…

The room was filling up slowly but surely, in true fashion the bride’s party had been twiddling their thumbs for half an hour, waiting for the groom’s party to arrive. This wasn’t atypical for them, as the groom was known to run on island time for everything though the bride…

Siri, dead at 16 hours In addition to being an internationally renowned entertainer, she was also an executive assistant, digital librarian, late night DJ, and pro-amateur photographer. She was found dead next to a bottle of ZzZquil and half drunk hard kombucha. Siri was a workaholic, often up at odd…

Mud on my boots and dirt on my thighs Straw vines twisted just above my eyes A silver star and turquoise beads A sheath of shade just where I need Ride into the sunset with red rocks in view I have at least one friend who’ll always be true Leather bound trim, form fit to my brow I’ll ride with you as long as nature allows 3. You are a cowboy poet. Pen an ode to your hat.