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Poetry: Learning to Play Dead
Poetry: The Other World
Fiction: Trying Not To Laugh Out Loud
Fiction: Jeremy And The Lord
Poetry: Paper Buddha & Some Ice Cubes
Poetry: The One
Fiction: Woven Stories
Poetry: And There You Have It . . .
Rant: Stupidity: Its Uses & Abuses
Rant: Dumped by Boyfriend--Selling his Tool
Poetry: Drunk Soccer Moms
Poetry: Moral Dilemmas for the Nascient 57 Year Old
Poetry: Signs that I am at One with the Universe
Fiction: About Cleaning Maxine's
Rant: Meet Your Match on Craigslist (A Poor Mojo's Monstrously Bad Sex Rant Contest Notable Entry)
Poetry: President Lincoln Never Wore a Turtleneck Sweater
Fiction: Blonde and Blue Like the Moon
Poetry: Colorado . . . Blue
Rant: The Misunderstood Life of St. Barnaby Stylites
Poetry: Ode to Madeline Lynn Lindsborg-Williams (1952-2005)
Poetry: Baby, Steal the Automobiles Down
Poetry: On Reclaiming Sadness for the Tortured Artist
Fiction: Interception
Fiction: The Morning After
Fiction: The Failure of Sainthood among the Damned
Rant: A Rebuttal for the Nonviolent Liberal
Rant: St. Joeseph and the Fish Flies
Rant: A Rebuttal for A Rebuttal of A Rebuttal . . . i think this has gone too far
Fiction: Photoluminasssence
Fiction: Hairilyzation
Rant: Shuffle Your Own Damn Papers
Rant: Sympathy
Fiction: S & M on the L Train
Fiction: Midnight on the M Line
Poetry: The Bankside
Poetry: A Poem In The Spanish Style
Rant: Inaugural Address
Rant: Squid Of The Union Address
Fiction: The Darkness
Fiction: Bail Bonds
Fiction: Sedgwick Meets Satan (and things are never the same again)
Fiction: The Last Souvenir
Fiction: The Devil Leaves Mrs. Harbison (part 1 of 2)
Fiction: The Devil Leaves Mrs. Harbison (part 2 of 2)
Fiction: At the Carnival
Fiction: Barry
Fiction: Sedgwick Meets Satan (and things are never the same again)(a Poor Mojo's Classic)
Poetry: Minivan Crash on I-95
Poetry: Minivan Crash on I-95 (a Poor Mojo Classic)
Fiction: 12
Rant: You Are Bidding On A Mistake
Poetry: Including the Saint Lawrence River
Poetry: The Body's Working
Rant: Prepare to Read my Awesomeness (A Poor Mojo's "Worst Possible Cover Letter" Rant Contest Notable Entry)
Poetry: Feeling A Little Persecuted
Poetry: Modern Day Politician
Poetry: The Walking Man's Prayer
Poetry: Icarus Plastique
Poetry: Ginger Snaps
Poetry: Remains of the Rain
Fiction: The Lie
Fiction: Choosing a Path
Poetry: While I Lay Quietly
Poetry: A Marmot in The City
Poetry: MELTDOWN
Rant: Inter Caecos Regnat Strabo (What Am I A Calculator?)
Rant: Directions?
Fiction: On Parables
Poetry: I'm Your Field Trip
Rant: About The Game
Poetry: The Bride of Dracula's Gynecologist on Career Day
Poetry: Why Health Insurance Never Covers Her Vagina Dentata
Poetry: The Kama Sutra of the Kraken
Fiction: College Life
Rant: How to Write a Popular Play
Fiction: The Purple Mai Tai Tiki Lounge
Fiction: Jack Kerouac's Grave
Rant: What Greatly Displeases Me in the Current Executive Administration
Poetry: It Takes A Real Bonbon
Rant: An Argument from the Nonviolent Liberal
Fiction: Crazy Head
Fiction: The Great Outdoors, Adventures In
Rant: Recycled Christmas: One Family's Revolution Against the Shopping Mall
Fiction: A Grisly Start (with Musical Accompaniment)
Rant: Why Not Swashbucklers?
Poetry: We're Having Fun
Poetry: Crawl
Rant: Javelina Death Rap
Rant: Stop Opposite Sex Marriage
Rant: Wacky Iraqi Pinochle
Fiction: Hammurabi's Not So Defunct Law
Fiction: Worst That Could Happen
Fiction: A Comparative Review of Two Michigan Hotels(an unpublished and unexpurgated 2009 article from Great Lake Travel Companion, a quarterly magazine)
Fiction: Missing Invisible
Poetry: My Poor Sony
Rant: Happy Holidays from the Carter Compound!
Rant: Happy Holidays from the Carter Compound!(a Poor Mojo's Xmas Classic)
Fiction: Girls Rule The Spaceship
Poetry: Christmas Holiday
Fiction: Beastly Numbers
Fiction: A Certain Message
Rant: To His Wife
Rant: The Most Depressing Place on Earth
Rant: Just the Facts
Rant: Consider the Poor Locust
Rant: Resemble This
Rant: If I Had My Wife's Legs
Poetry: Tears
Poetry: The Old Man's Last Stand
Fiction: J.D. Salinger's Tobacco Dependency
Rant: Batteries
Rant: The Evil Glass-Seller
Rant: And for This We Got What? (A Poor Mojo's "My Travel Fiasco" Rant Contest Notable Entry)
Rant: Lincoln's Last Speech
Rant: Fertility's End
Rant: Ass-hole!(An Anonymous Rant)
Rant: Happy Thanksgiving, Detroit!
Rant: Internet Miracles and Church Camp
Rant: Watchmena movie review
Rant: What Do We Need to Know About James Wenneker Von Brunn?
Rant: Put 'em Together And What Have You Got?
Poetry: George W. Bush (An Electoral Elegy Clerihew, winner)
Poetry: White Teeth
Fiction: Saturday Morning on the Way to the Mall
Fiction: Fast Learner
Rant: Musings After Overtime at the Porn Factory
Rant: Live Nude Girls
Rant: Operation: Downy Fresh; True Story Of An MP Mission In Iraq
Rant: Roseville is Killing Me
Rant: Is The Right All That's Left?
Fiction: Trump Card (part 1 of 3)
Fiction: Trump Card (part 2 of 3)
Fiction: Trump Card (part 3 of 3)
Poetry: Shotgun
Poetry: Three Pithy Poems
Poetry: NASDAQ
Poetry: When Papa Sleeps, Every Night the Same Dream . . .
Poetry: Rue Du Coq D'or, Paris
Poetry: The Summer Of Love
Poetry: The Sultan Of Persuasion
Fiction: On Beginnings
Rant: Read This And I Own Your Brain
Rant: Yo-Ho-Ho and a Bottle of Pop-ularity
Rant: By The Time It Reach Hollywood, It's Over
Rant: What You Are
Rant: Tradition and Progress Are Often in Conflict: A Twenty-Minute Practice Essay Suggested by the College Board Writing Service
Rant: Before They Were Famous
Rant: A Pundit In Every Pot-Head
Poetry: The Hoary Hordes of Hoggoth
Poetry: Pre-Natal Limerick
Poetry: Limerick in Education with Certification
Poetry: Sensitive Cavity Limerick Blues
Poetry: Tragic Limericks of Middle Earth
Poetry: Twentieth Century Boy
Fiction: Four Sci-Fi Biographies
Fiction: Mamaskin
Poetry: tuesday, three p m
Poetry: Getting Free
Poetry: Thoughts at Evening
Poetry: Inside Boxing
Poetry: O-Saru
Poetry: Curriculum
Poetry: Chuo Sen
Fiction: All in Good Time
Poetry: Leukemia
Fiction: A Good Father
Fiction: The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was
Fiction: The Mouse, The Bird, and the Sausage
Rant: Sarah's Field
Rant: Mother's Day
Rant: Reynolds and Me
Rant: Cousin Jake
Fiction: Always Be Closing
Poetry: Ninjas 101
Fiction: On Parables(a Poor Mojo's Classic)
Poetry: Clip-Cloppin
Fiction: Tip-Toeing Through My Diary
Fiction: Be A Man
Fiction: The Problem with Tats
Fiction: Sunday Delivery
Fiction: Lemonhead
Poetry: The Second Coming
Rant: Fourteen Planes to Chefornak (The Poor Mojo's My Travel Fiasco Rant Contest WINNER!)
Poetry: DreidelDreidelDreidel(a song)
Fiction: The Hangman's Salon
Fiction: Apartment on Niagara Street, Buffalo NY
Fiction: Kaspar
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapters 1-4
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapters 5-7
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapters 8 and 9
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapters 10-12
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapter 13
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapters 14-16
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapters 17 and 18
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapters 19 and 20
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapters 21 and 22
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapter 23
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapters 24-26
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapters 27-29
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapters 30-32
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapters 33-35
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapters 34-37
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapters 38-41
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapters 42-44
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapters 45-46
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapters 47-49
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapters 50-53
Fiction: Hall of Famers
Fiction: The Mistake
Fiction: Ode To The Strong
Fiction: Instead Of
Fiction: Almost Flushed
Poetry: Multiple Personality Disorder
Poetry: Seizure
Poetry: The Monkey's Raincoat
Rant: Late In October
Rant: The Next Story
Poetry: House of Correction
Poetry: House of Correction(a Poor Mojo's Classic)
Rant: Reality As We Know It(A Poor Mojo's "Worst Possible Cover Letter" Rant Contest Notable Entry)
Rant: Tipped by a Madwoman (A Poor Mojo's "Bad Job, Good Times; Good Job, Bad Times" Rant Contest Notable Entry)
Rant: Letter from Porlamar: The Tale of John Smith, and the Driving Habits of Venezuelans
Rant: Letter from Juan Griego: On Fishing on Isla Margarita, and the Menace of the Chinese Fishing Fleet
Rant: I Have This Fucked Up New Job
Rant: My New Job Is WAY More Fucked Up Than I Thought
Rant: OK, So I Totally Stepped In It This Time. Totally.
Rant: About This Whole "Ode to the Love's Lost" Thing
Rant: I Have This Fucked Up New Job(a Poor Mojo's Classic)
Rant: My New Job Is WAY More Fucked Up Than I Thought(a Poor Mojo's Classic)
Rant: I Have This Fucked Up New Job and it's WAY More Fucked Up Than I Thought(a Poor Mojo's Classic)
Fiction: The Two Corpses (A Russian Folktale)
Fiction: The Dogs Hold an Election (A Native American Folktale)
Poetry: We Know This Much
Rant: U.S. Bums (A Poor Mojo's "My Travel Fiasco" Rant Contest Notable Entry)
Fiction: Coffin Nails
Poetry: Stop
Fiction: On the Occasion of Wet Cat
Rant: The Danger of Dumbing Down
Poetry: Trepanation
Rant: The Art of Controversy
Rant: The Gift of Gab
Rant: A Mad World
Rant: Natura Benigna
Fiction: Valuable Advice from Ambrose Bierce
Fiction: More Valuable Advice from Ambrose Bierce
Fiction: The Ingenious Patriot
Fiction: The Catted Anarchist
Fiction: The Sagacious Rat
Fiction: Congress and the People
Fiction: Chickamauga
Fiction: A Baby Tramp
Fiction: How to Survive Madmen
Rant: Any Country That Calls It Grog Is OK in My Book
Rant: A Wasted Education And The Rest
Rant: Old School Tie Strangles the Professions
Poetry: I Am Not Like You
Poetry: Adios
Fiction: What Pelicans Know of Lemon Tart
Poetry: Speedway
Poetry: The Dual
Poetry: The Vision After the Sermon
Poetry: Breasts with Red Flowers
Poetry: Caruso Sings Santa Lucia
Poetry: Independence Day, 1984
Poetry: My War with the Robins
Poetry: Gesso (from Mommy, part 1 of 5)
Poetry: Seaman (from Mommy, part 2 of 5)
Poetry: Radio (from Mommy, part 3 of 5)
Poetry: The Ibis (from Mommy, part 4 of 5)
Poetry: The Mask (from Mommy, part 5 of 5)
Poetry: Group-therapist Contemplates Winter Crows
Poetry: Group-therapist Contemplates Dead Songbirds
Poetry: Group-therapist Listens to Water Music
Poetry: Group-therapist dreams of wolves
Fiction: The Remorse of Willy O'Ryan (parts 1, 2, 3 of 6)
Fiction: The Remorse of Willy O'Ryan (part 4 of 6)
Fiction: The Remorse of Willy O'Ryan (part 5 of 6)
Fiction: The Remorse of Willy O'Ryan (part 6 of 6)
Poetry: The Garden's Dirty
Poetry: Observance
Fiction: And Somewhere in the Horizon is Cuba
Poetry: The Subject
Poetry: What the Ghost Saw
Rant: Of The Impediments of Knowledge in Handling It by Parts, And in Slipping Off Particular Sciences from the Root and Stock of Universal Knowledge, Being the 8th Chapter, The Whole Chapter.(from Valerius Terminus)
Poetry: Hot Day on the Steps af a Brownstone
Poetry: A Very Ugly Australian
Poetry: One
Fiction: The World's Gone Crazy and His Old Lady With It
Rant: Alchemy
Rant: Meditation on Hell
Poetry: Join
Rant: Drunken Librarian Hits Fundraiser With Crotch On Fire
Rant: Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior In Company and Conversation: a Book of Etiquette, Abridged
Poetry: Why M
Fiction: Duodenum
Rant: A Letter on the subject of DAYLIGHT SAVING To THE AUTHORS of The Journal of Paris
Rant: How I Became a Printer in Philadelphia (from his Autobiography)
Rant: Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America
Rant: Information to Those Who Would Remove to America
Rant: Scheme for a New Alphabet and a Reformed Mode of Spelling
Rant: Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One
Rant: Ask Not
Rant: Ask Not(a Poor Mojo's Classic)
Fiction: Yellow-maned Invaders
Rant: A Rebuttal for the "Airborne Fucking Ranger"
Rant: Black Friday Rules
Rant: Gym Etiquette: For Those Who Don't Know Or Don't Care
Poetry: Bach
Poetry: Coltrane
Poetry: Some LSD Morn'
Poetry: Prior To A Dictator's Flee To Exile
Poetry: Trial
Poetry: Sculpture
Poetry: Epitaph
Poetry: My Father In His Deathbed
Poetry: This Goddamn Society: Christmas 2005
Poetry: The Hieroglyphic Bard
Poetry: Two Poems by Papa Osmubal: Another One of Those Nights and Early Morning. Macau
Poetry: Two Poems by Papa Osmubal: "Rebel vs. Rebel" and "Gourmet's Advice"
Poetry: Leal Senado Square
Poetry: This Goddamn Society: Five Poems by Papa Osmubal
Poetry: A Dadaist In Chung Shan, Guangdong, China
Poetry: Omen
Poetry: Aubade
Poetry: At the PTA Meeting
Poetry: GAGA
Poetry: Three Poems
Fiction: Gopal And The Canaries
Fiction: The Student And The Box
Fiction: The Northern Kingdom: 4 Minute Stories
Fiction: The Firefly And The Mosquito
Fiction: The Wind
Rant: The World Can Keep Going -- I'm Already Off!
Poetry: Lost in the Wonderful World of Delusion . . .
Poetry: Stealing the Press

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