Petty Salad Takedown By Taylor Dibbert

He makes
A salad for
The four
Of them
To go
With the
Amy’s pizza
That they
Are having
For dinner
And shortly after
The four
Of them
Sit down
To dinner
His wife
Starts complaining
About the salad
And says that
Certain pieces
Of arugula
Are bad and
Should have never
Made their way
Into the salad,
The kids don’t
Say anything
During this time,
He hasn’t given up
On their marriage
At this point
And he doesn’t
Fully appreciate
The consequences
Of that decision
Until later
Because what’s coming
Will be far worse
Than this
Petty salad takedown.

Taylor Dibbert is a writer, journalist, and poet in Washington, DC. “Rescue Dog,” his fifth book, was published in May.

Iron Lung, Barred Soul By JPR & Kevin M. Hibshman

 

Steep is the jumping-off point; remorse is the burden of the soulless creatures of perpetual content.

I am moving through endless hallways,  breathless with fear. No one can open the doors for me. The darkness eats my sight and haunts my judgment.

I've run a gauntlet of razor wires elusive promise. Of false hope mired in brutal truths.

The past is a cemetery filled with regrets.

Dutiful student turning blue. Vomiting oceans of abominable lies. We spit in the face of bloodless heroes who sacrificed so many innocent lives.

Two cents for the ferryman to go fuck himself.I've long since seared my flesh along with severed all ties somewhere once upon the river Styx.

John Patrick Robbins, is a southern gothic writer.

His work has been featured at Fixator Press, Horror Sleaze Trash,  Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Disturb The Universe, Piker Press, Impspired Magazine, Punk Noir Magazine and The Dope Fiend Daily.

His work is often dark and always unfiltered.

Kevin M. Hibshman has had poems published in many journals and magazines world wide.In addition, he has edited his poetry zine, Fearless, since 1990 and is the author of sixteen chapbooks including Love Sex Death Dreams (Green Bean Press, 2000) and Incessant Shining (Alternating Current, 2011).

His current book Cease To Destroy from Whiskey City Press is currently available on Amazon.