A giant American horse, bigger than all the West, carries ten thousand tiny cowboys. The saddle stretches out dotted with drywall dwellings. Asphalt leather straps connect the gas stations. Inside its hollow body you’ll find no Ajax or Odysseus — just guns, guns, guns, a billion guns.
Journal - Poetry - Satire
A little air
There is nothing so remarkably expansive as human vanity. They even use it to inflate balloons.
Fiction - Nature - Satire
Spider-Craft
As usual, Em Spider had skipped breakfast in favor of half a pot of coffee and five hours of remote work. “QA for a streaming media platform, blah blah, who cares,” Em would say if you asked, with a practiced laugh just uncomfortable enough to encourage a change of subject. Around 2 pm, abdomen rumbling, Em scurried down to the mini-mart located in the lobby of the adjacent apartment building and grabbed a couple of microwave flies — flavorless pill-shaped factory-farmed frozen bugs, filled with a vaguely cheese-like food product. After the hurried meal and a couple more hours of […]
Journal - Satire
Announcing McTribute
(Portland, Oregon) A new restaurant project is promising to bring back the gangbuster Portland culinary scene, by going where the local, creative farm-to-table has feared to tread: the comfortable familiarity of the global commercial food industry. A goal of the nascent effort is to bring economic relief to chefs who have lost businesses to the one-two punch of pre-pandemic real estate frenzy and pandemic shutdowns. Setting aside the experimental devolution of Portland’s indie past, the new restaurant will give chefs a nightly opportunity to “cover” successful dishes from America’s most popular restaurants including Olive Garden, Outback Steakhouse, and Applebees. There […]