Journal 5/2/22

“Why do you keep turning off the parts of you that make you great? I have a theory. Your unhinged drive for independence has trapped you in a myre made up of all the obligations you set for yourself in order to survive. You abandoned so many attachments, so many pleasures, so many opportunities in […]

5/17/15:

I think I’m horny every blue moon normally I keep my distance from magnetic bodies that would pin me down in my flesh hold me hostage within my own mouth pry open my geode and call it a gem in the light when I fuck the lights are off because I can’t stand the sight […]

Being Young and Being Old

I was looking through some very old poems of mine and figured why not post them here. By the way, if you’re in DC, I’ll be reciting live at Maketto on H St for Yield and Yearn queer erotic poetry event. The following is NOT one of the pieces I’ll present but do join if […]

New Music – Lightmare ‘All Cats Are Beautiful’

Originally posted on Yack! Magazine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEWXaYSgGX0 With a frantic frenetic energy, Lightmare sound a lot like if Devendra Banhart took a tumble through a punk-rock rabbit hole and came out the other side just as soulfully psychedelic but with the amps turned up to 11. The song begins with this building whirlwind that increases in…

First Contact (part 3)

First Contact (Part 3) by Shady Rose I was selfish. Perhaps I was the only one who grasped the magnitude of my good fortune. To be the first Earthling to contact the outside universe in millenia was no small task. I knew that there would be many in my community who regarded the arrangement with […]

funeral for store brand whole grain

Funeral for Store Brand Whole Grainby Shady Rose I’m just going to get rid of a fuck ton of stuff right now instead of holding onto it forever saying I’ll donate it I just donated most of my clothes and shoes and whatever they probably don’t need the random half-broken shit lying around my house […]

This is Not A Place of Honor

You might be disappointed to know that all our plans for the nuclear waste sites went to hell. You know, all those glorious and Romantic designs we made thinking “Later civilizations must understand this: We mean danger, death, and DO NOT ENTER.” We really should have known by then what humans are like. After all, […]

First Contact (Part 2)

I’ve always felt that human beings have a poor appreciation for silence. After all, as social creatures we can’t help but surround ourselves with the evidence of other people. A faucet running in another room, a laughing child outside on a spring evening, the soft breathing of our lovers as they turn over in our […]

Home Maker

by Shady Rose July 2021 If you sleep easy and breathe lightlyYou feel clean and dry and softIf green things flourish in every corner of your eye You count each thing that is your very ownYou release all ownership and set down wanting Look at what you’ve made for yourself!All cobbled together from things found […]