The Mezunian

Die Positivität ist das Opium des Volkes, aber der Spott ist das Opium der Verrückten

I’m Sorry for Being Unhappy

I'm kidding. No I'm not. I'm proud o' my scrumptious misery. You covet my sorrow like a salty snow cone. You wish you could feel the fresh sting I feel in my chest, the heftiness in my limbs, the fuzzy ache in my brain muscles. Well, you can't have any o' it. It's mine. I […]

Posted in Crazy, Poetry

Der Wert (an excerpt from The Economicon)

…it’s the work I put into it. …it’s the money I get for it. …it’s the money I pay for it. …it’s all ’bout the results. …it’s the thought that counts. …it can’t just come from nothing. …it’s all within me. …it’s what I don’t already have. …it comes from mass production. …it 1 o’ […]

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Bar None (an excerpt from The Economicon)

A Marxist & an Austrian-schooler walk into a bar, & after chugging 20 KG o’ ale, the Austrian goes to use the loo for an hour. ‘Pon coming out, he holds a glass o’ urine & says to the Marxist, “I’ve spent an hour laboring to create this pee. Since it clearly has labor, you […]

Posted in ¿What the Fuck Is this Shit?, Poetry

ES WIRD KEINE UNTERSCHLUPF HIER SEIN DIE FRONT IST ÜBERALL

You thought I was gone. But you were wrong. You thought I was gone-- but I always come back. Just when you think you can slide back in your easy bed, fed on the cream o' fulfilled dreams... that's when I strike. I'm your AIDS. I ne'er go 'way. & if you go near that […]

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A Craving for Salt

& all the pulsing itchiness— No, I speak not o’ those moldy hinges on which your spoilt rattling paint cans grip. I speak o’ mo’: a rainbow jungle whose palms o’erbrimmed with crisp crisps— that’s how I spelt it; it’s Britican without the sharp-edged can openers. You think salt water can’t be fresh. You think […]

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Die Erholung (UN DESPERDICIO TOTAL DE TIEMPO MI PULMÓN DE ACERO)

“Gotta write the bike in a fight for strife in a dive for pines with leaves for cheese & these are fleas for keys, please,” babbled the idiot as it stuffed greasy peanut butter into its blood-chapped lips & through its unbrushed rusty teeth. But the suffocating pressure o’ the flimsy arm bone o’ the […]

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WORTE DIE ICH NIE GESAGT

Dijó mi supervisor, —¿Por qué tienes tanto estrés? Hoy es tu viernes. Pero, lo dijé que no necessito sus vierneses; todos los días podrían ser mis vierneses con la ayuda de unas pastillas de cianuro… —So there. Y es por eso que busco para un nuevo trabajo, señor.

Posted in Deutsch, Española, Poetry

There’s Still Space

There’s still space on the star-lit streets for smashed pancake crepe styrofoam cartons parting my commercial from my residence, presenting the present o’ presenceless. It all makes senselessness. I love the black boughs so snug in the black sky so tight in this black universe so terse. But I don’t like the seekers, the flashbulb […]

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