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Sid Hart added a discussion to the group Poetry
When My Father Took Us To The Ocean Driving past midnight, he heads straight to beach. Against our protests, the black Lincoln creeps inexorably forward on the hard-packed sand as if caught in a tractor beam. A monster bellowing, getting c…
3 hours ago
Enjoyed the inuendo of this. The implied but never stated.
4 hours ago
Excellent.
4 hours ago
Like this much.
4 hours ago
Jim Valvis replied to Bart Solarczyk's discussion 'The Radio' in the group Poetry
I like the poem. I have no opinion on Ron's edits-- since I hate when people critique my critques. That's for Bart to decide. But just taking the poem as Bart wrote it, I like the images and the strong feeling of melancholy the poem imparts.
4 hours ago
Oh, my.
9 hours ago
Ain't it the truth!
11 hours ago
I think you've written a completely different poem here Ron. Another way of looking at a sad scene.
11 hours ago
FAKE DADA. added a blog post
yup.
15 hours ago
speaking of feet, this line is great: "evening fell like a dog paw"
19 hours ago
Very sad news. RIP Dave...
yesterday
Sid Hart replied to Jim Wittenberg's discussion 'impossible' in the group Poetry
the revision is perfect, as perfect as a poem gets, anyway
yesterday
Sid Hart added a discussion to the group Poetry
Down the Rabbit Hole Oh dirty boy, naked or robed, your thoughts are not my thoughts. That helmet doesn't cover a brain. Worm, you shameless intruder, you never grow up in time. What a weapon you think you are. Well, put it back in your scabbard, d…
yesterday
Ron Androla added a blog post
News arrived this morning of the passing of Dave Christy, co-publisher with his wife Ana, of Alpha Beat Press. Doug Holder announced it this morning on his blog. From the Alpha Beat website: Alpha Beat Press has been publishing Beat Generation, pos…
yesterday
Thank you so much Ron. Brook needs prayer he is having job difficulties on top of all this. He has the boss from hell.
yesterday
Ron Androla replied to Bart Solarczyk's discussion 'The Radio' in the group Poetry
strange to want to edit a bart poem since vast majority of yr work defies even a dash of an edit, but on this one: Wearing rounded edges & sawdust shadows vein ghost heartbreak the beer-splashed radio & the next next beer that Kit Kat…
yesterday
perhaps a trip to family doc is in order, joyce, to explain the situation, who is obligated to try to help you keep on keeping on...you are overwhelmed...keep the faith, keep hold on that string of hope...
yesterday
"sneeze" to feet?
yesterday
the force of a woman. why do you think they call her MOTHER NATURE? she makes us us...
yesterday
metaphor, sure, & look, we're moths in the infinite darkness...or will be...
yesterday

Blog Posts

FAKE DADA.

haiku.




yup.

Posted by FAKE DADA. on February 9, 2010 at 11:57am

Ron Androla

from lilliput review's blog, sad news

News arrived this morning of the passing of Dave Christy, co-publisher with his wife Ana, of Alpha Beat Press. Doug Holder announced it this morning on his blog. From the Alpha Beat website:

Alpha Beat Press has been publishing Beat Generation, post-Beat Independent and other modern writings since 1986. Alpha Beat Press had its beginnings in a Montreal flat with the idea of keeping the aesthetics and sensibilities of the Beat generation alive. Our first magazine, Alpha Beat Soup was unique, bei… Continue

Posted by Ron Androla on February 8, 2010 at 7:00pm — 2 Comments

Sid Hart

Down the Rabbit Hole

Down the Rabbit Hole

Oh dirty boy, naked or robed,
your thoughts are not my thoughts.
That helmet doesn't cover a brain.
Worm, you shameless intruder,
you never grow up in time.
What a weapon you think you are.
Well, put it back in your scabbard,
dirty boy, conquests are few
and far between those southern
deltas where a man, let alone a boy,
could be lost forever, coming
back smaller than when he began,
still a worm, or if he's lucky, a moth
less than six miles from a flame.

Posted by Sid Hart on February 8, 2010 at 5:30am — 2 Comments

bud backen

words walk off the page

listening to the laundry
sing the pipes
the wind outside
overcast

i believed those movies
went to california maybe
see how things turned out

but the breeze in the trees
the moon over my house
shifted the mood
to martha her
earthtone needs
& that body
oh my god

Posted by bud backen on February 8, 2010 at 4:40am — 3 Comments

bud backen

sirens of st.paul

sirens of st. paul

were wailing down wabasha
the room festooned w/balloons
mary 's birthday had come & gone

we'd done up our own & now was
on johns cause he'd passed out on
the lawn

where the hill hung in the
afternoon squalor of that next day's
heartache

evening fell like a dog paw
tonight in the reticence of
saturday hung high w/sunshine

& some arctic sneeze I felt the
claws of it tear my face & try
to climb into me

Posted by bud backen on February 7, 2010 at 6:34pm — 3 Comments

Joyce Chelmo

Aria took two steps back again

We had hope for about six days. Keiko was even able to hold her. But sadly once again


Aria was intubated.. she has that awful vent tube in her throat again.


I have been keeping a private journal just so I can be totally honest with myself, and not


feel I need to censor my thoughts. Sometimes I an down right angry. But... that being


said I wrote this today.




Continue

Posted by Joyce Chelmo on February 7, 2010 at 2:27pm — 5 Comments

FAKE DADA.

no title.


wouldn't let me post unless i put some text....so.....

Posted by FAKE DADA. on February 6, 2010 at 5:25pm — 5 Comments

Sid Hart

i am a madman

i am a madman

i am mad to write
to feel
to kill
and to cut out the truth
i will cut myself
and watch the blood
trickle from my body
i will write the truth in blood
but it will be written in the symbols
of a child
it will be the swirls splotches
streaks of blood
that will tell of madness
and pain
of hate and lies
i will not withhold one drop
where is the high priest
who would offer me before you
must i do it myself
who will read this ancient language
and reveal this truth
that i may know it
i be… Continue

Posted by Sid Hart on February 5, 2010 at 9:00pm — 2 Comments

Jeffrey S. Callico

Art Editor at Negative Suck

I am very pleased to announce that Madrea Marie Loy will serve as the art editor at Negative Suck. All art and photo submissions -- black and white only -- may be submitted to her at madreamarie@gmail.com. Please check the submission guidelines at www.negativesuck.com.



Questions, comments and suggestions are always welcome concerning Negative Suck by emailing me at

Continue

Posted by Jeffrey S. Callico on February 5, 2010 at 10:21am

Sid Hart

galaxy 500

galaxy 500

my galaxy 500
doesn't ride like she once
did
the power steering's gone
the shocks
are as responsive as meteors
in mud
if the road's a belt
of bumps & twists
she drives like dancin'
with a fat lady
who wants to lead
It’s all you can do
to thrust her to the shoulder
& ride it out
there’s a crack runnin’
down
the middle of the windshield
with hundreds of waterless canals
spreadin’ undetected
they’ve been there bidin’ their time
like a virus
& where the crack meets the… Continue

Posted by Sid Hart on February 3, 2010 at 11:28pm — 6 Comments

Jim Wittenberg

The story behind the story - Blink/Smudge

He whispers harshly, “Be cool. She’s in the hallway.”
“Why so quiet?” Eyeing us suspiciously. “Talking about your girlfriend?”
“You’re my girlfriend, baby.”
“I bet.”
“We got any beer? My throats dry.”
“Thirsty? Quit smoking weed.”
He laughs. The water gurgles as he sucks on the mouth of the bong.

-- offbeatjim
2/3/2010

Posted by Jim Wittenberg on February 3, 2010 at 10:30pm — 2 Comments

FAKE DADA.

an untitled spasm.

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i was 2 spastic breaths
away from bustin' that
window right the fuck out

then sent down by angels
from the heaven's above,
it came

a revelation that
changed everything

the sun got brighter
birds sang like a sumbitch
the blind gained sight
& no glass got broke

[not this time anyway]

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Posted by FAKE DADA. on February 2, 2010 at 3:22pm — 2 Comments

Jeffrey S. Callico

Progress

She spreads her legs
in passion, opens books
she never read
in high school or college
watches movies her parents
told her not to. In the middle
of her life, when men laugh
and jeer at her drooping jaw
she turns over and dreams
of men she never fucked, of women
she had wanted to and of children
who call her name but are not her own.

Mornings come fast but the nights
come quicker, unlike her orgasms
which seem to take forever,
and if she can understand anything
it is how she feels at three a.m.
w… Continue

Posted by Jeffrey S. Callico on February 1, 2010 at 11:01am — 1 Comment

Jeffrey S. Callico

Negative Suck :: February 2010

The new issue is now online and features work by a number of fabulous writers and artists:

Catherine Zickgraf, Howie Good, Ernest Williamson III, Matthew Dexter, Justin Blackburn, Dorothee Lang, Benjamin Byrnes, J. Bradley, Kyle Hemmings, Lynn Kinsey, Walter Conley, and Adrienne Christian.

Be sure to check it out.

www.negativesuck.com

Posted by Jeffrey S. Callico on February 1, 2010 at 1:30am — 3 Comments

Jeffrey S. Callico

Incident Intensity

No one lives here. You don’t live here, I don’t live here, no one does. The house is empty. There are no people inside, including you and me. I’m not in, you’re not in. No one is in.

Down the street there are voices. The voices come from people who are talking. They are talking about the empty house and about the fact that no one is inside it. That I’m not in it and that you’re not either. If the people keep talking someone will tell them to stop talking and accept the fact that the house is em… Continue

Posted by Jeffrey S. Callico on January 30, 2010 at 9:30am — 1 Comment

Sid Hart

My Terms

I've been struggling for months, unable to move, to shed guilt. I know that it could be validly argued that I'm merely getting older and regrets have phagocyted my life, that I'm running scared, little time left, and that is true. But it doesn't invalidate my need for the transformative powers of fearless youth. Despite NA's aphorism to live life on life's terms, I want to live life on my terms, knowing that sometimes I may have to settle for life's terms.

Posted by Sid Hart on January 28, 2010 at 5:50pm

n.r.m.

its 430 a.m

i ate 13 xanax, drank 2 forties, smoaked crack, shot coke, ate an ambien, chain smoked,
ate some bunk x, stole money, now im gonna go to labor ready. i need 50 dollars. hope it works.litttle bit spinny

Posted by n.r.m. on January 28, 2010 at 6:27am

Jeffrey S. Callico

Negative Suck :: Open Submissions

While the February and March issues are virtually full, there is plenty of room for April.

I am looking for prose, non-rhyming poetry, and black-and-white photography/artwork that yells at me from across the room -- that tells me in no uncertain terms: "I DON'T SUCK!" Please read the guidelines.

Visit here and see for yourself what all the damn fuss is about. Because there most certainly is a fuss, whatever that means.

New to Negative Suck… Continue

Posted by Jeffrey S. Callico on January 24, 2010 at 4:11pm — 2 Comments

n.r.m.

i start psycho therapy on monday

describe yourself exercise

i'm a bloated blob of twitchy medication
that drinks and drugs too much
a limp dick over fed broke jobless bed ridden
TV watching no interest in society or friends
asshole with a grudge against all humanity
a fat faced no upper lip pus sack of farts
a paranoid mess of delusional thinking
with a white goatee & white hairs taking over
my head, prozac eating shaky old time acid head
twig like arms with chicken legs full of hair
a hole in my skull
would rather hang wi… Continue

Posted by n.r.m. on January 23, 2010 at 9:09pm — 2 Comments

 
 

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Kurt Nimmo

rubber johnny 3 Replies

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Daryl

New Year 4 Replies

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Kurt Nimmo

track fromy my third album "tres"

Started by Kurt Nimmo in wha? Jan 9.

Kurt Nimmo

my favorite Icelander - Bjork, human behavior

Started by Kurt Nimmo in wha? Jan 9.

Jim Wittenberg

Shattered - Blink/Smudge

Started by Jim Wittenberg in shtuff Dec. 30, 2009.

Jim Wittenberg

Decision - Blink/Smudge 1 Reply

Started by Jim Wittenberg in shtuff. Last reply by Ron Androla Dec. 27, 2009.

RC Edrington

Fix This Machine Then if I Can't Medicate It... 2 Replies

Started by RC Edrington in shtuff. Last reply by RC Edrington Dec. 24, 2009.

Michael Philip Castro

Sausage Barge

Started by Michael Philip Castro in shtuff Dec. 13, 2009.

Jim Valvis

Strange Army Exercise 2 Replies

Started by Jim Valvis in wha?. Last reply by Jim Valvis Oct. 26, 2009.

Jim Valvis

Hard-boiled 1 Reply

Started by Jim Valvis in wha?. Last reply by Ron Androla Oct. 24, 2009.

Kurt K

Schizoid Blues 7 Replies

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Kurt K

Torched Brain Cells 2 Replies

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Kurt K

Schizoid Blues

Started by Kurt K in wha? Aug. 7, 2009.

eventualdave

thru-you.com 2 Replies

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Daryl

Friend requests 4 Replies

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Daryl

Adolescence 4 Replies

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joeyp

Idiots who try to f@#k with Joe 2 Replies

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Jim Valvis

Twitter 18 Replies

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Ron Androla

From The Board To Eternity 22 Replies

Started by Ron Androla in shtuff. Last reply by Daniel Pietraszewski II Apr. 8, 2009.

Russell Ragsdale

Me in the shake n bake 9 Replies

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Notes

announcing!

poetry motel will appear online by the end of this month. http://poetrymotel.org/

mckinnon enters the 21st century.

Created by Ron Androla Jan 10, 2010 at 9:21am. Last updated by Ron Androla Jan 10.

the email thing

some have written to me about the barrage of email they get from this network. if you go to "settings" at top right of page, click, click "email" to whittle away what you want, or to chop all future emails.

Created by Ron Androla Jan 9, 2009 at 6:51am. Last updated by Ron Androla Jan. 9, 2009.

ack!

work now!!!

Created by Ron Androla Jan 6, 2009 at 11:04am. Last updated by Ron Androla Jan. 6, 2009.

take it away johnny!

i have to go to work now.

Created by Ron Androla Jan 6, 2009 at 10:17am. Last updated by Ron Androla Jan. 6, 2009.

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