If You Are Having a Bad Day...

Just misspell my name and everything gets better.


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-Sent courtesy of Mary Solecki

10 New Band Names

Pepperoni Love Letter
Hot Maple Flashes
Vaguely Swedish
The Wolf Slipper
DInner with the Obscure
Crackers, Socks, & Gum
Yule Tide Couches
Angry Potato
Shut Your Face and the Hypnotists
Container of Stink

Listing

He made a list

of all that he could remember
the bleeding eccentrics
reclusive star bursts
and the radiators

he wrote their names

vertically and without numbers
like a narrow road
he wrote their names in ink

he hung it on his mantle and contemplated them
then rising slowly he removed them from their altar
and dropped them to their fate
burning fantasies

-RTB, Edited by Stereo Caro

PS 1

Featured: Richard T. Boehmcke and Leah K. White

Photo: Yazmany Arboleda

Character

What I've learned is that there is no point-of-no-return. You don't just learn a lesson and automatically function without thought at the next moment of contention. It is a constant battle that you must always keep fighting. Just because you learned your lesson once, it does not proclude you from needing to learn it again. You must fight for yourself that next time around. You must fight to show, to prove your character.

-RTB

Poem on the Spot

I wrote this poem on the spot
In it you will see all that I am not
Its a simple sample of a smattering of me
And if I'm not careful
You won't know all that I can be

But scooped and served bunches of words
Rhyming pairs or coupleted thirds
Will never be a replacement
Though I hope not an embarassment
Of the things which I be

-RTB

The Fall

Your skin may be made of glass
But your heart is made of stone
And since my efforts are in vain
I will just leave you alone

My words weren't suggestions
Nor was my affection an idea
And since you excel at deflecting my attempts
You're probably not even hearing this my dear

Your thoughts aren't just audible
They are colorfully clear
Your presence is too close
You are undoubtedly
Painfully near

-RTB

Night of the Fashion Show

Featured: Carolyn Baccaro, Matthew Mullholand, Richard Boehmcke, Aimee Schecter


Photo: Jordan Brower

White

And the flocks of doves
Escaped my heart
Brushing my face with the tips of their wings
Turning it pink
Turning it red

-RTB

10 New Band Names

The Itch of Confusion
Remedial Boobery
7 Grain Lemon Jello Bread
Operation Yogurt Sauce
Outer Borough Cheese Plug
Megaphone With Legs
Fish Pickup Lines
I Turned Around & There Was No Balloon
Tim Duffy In a Tight Robe
The Secret Spahghetti

The Chihua-ha

"So I'm standing in the middle of my room with a flaming umbrella in my right hand, and a crazy Chihuahua that i don't own in the left. I can't let go of either to take care of the other.

So I started kind of swinging the umbrella ya know? Hoping it would just blow out. But I hit the Chihuahua in the face and I knocked him out of my hand. He just went limp and fell INTO my purse. My GUCCI purse! I paid 400 dollars for that purse.

So now there is a Chihuahua, an unconscious Chihuahua in my 400 dollar purse. I mean I'm pretty sure he was unconscious and not dead because it was only one of these mini umbrellas ya know? But now I had a free hand, and the umbrella was still on fire, so I ran into the bathroom and threw my torch in the toilet.

After that I just sat down and cried for like 20 minutes before I remembered the Chihuahua was still in my purse! So I ran back into my room and the the Chihuahua AND my purse were gone. Oh my god I was so pissed, that damn dog hadn't died, and the son of a bitch had stolen my purse!"

-RTB, Written for a friend's theater audition

Heart Shadow

Self Portrait by Richard T. Boehmcke

Rumors

Rumors are blustering swirling winds which take the umbrellas of our minds and turn them inside out.

-RTB

6 Words That Make Me Laugh

Caribou
Flannel
Tapioca
Lollygag
Nincompoop
Maneuver