voices from the fire#12 – Dumpster Fire Press

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Robert Wilson

Bored With Nihilism I’m bored with nihilism. I push colossal boulders and smile on occasion. I see Camus’s face in the stone. The meaninglessness of it all cleanses the detritus of my question-mark soul. Now there is nothing. I couldn’t be happier. The Nightmares Of Clocks My nightmares are perpetual as the clocks within, revolvingContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Robert Wilson”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Chad Christopher Dixon

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Samir Karimo

Zombie Nothing is as before. Since that fateful day people have gone crazy. I’m not saying it became, but it has become, which means that those events continue to affect our present. I have received one last mission, to cross the portal and spread the temporary powder. But how?. Before continuing with this story IContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Samir Karimo”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Cynthia Scott

Cindy Poems Lighting fickles and cool downpours of silken whereabouts sliding doors to countless encounters of flesh pounded into love wet degraded unearth triangular flies and hopped-up bunnies looking for ragweed time capsules Where is fairyland ? Sodden nightmares that quake with resistance unilateral timekeepers await further instructions helium balloons full of piss and cumContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Cynthia Scott”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Rita Recine

Yesterday’s Prose It was only yesterday Voices were heard, stories were told Family, friends to hug as well as hold All came to a stand still The day corona virus decided to intermingle Single handily the globe, left out into the cold Today this land is no longer our land Together we stand ToContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Rita Recine”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Michael Lacy

Jesus Christ there’s no use for this Judas there’s no choice but to do it Predestined to see Mother Earth from fleshy knees tell us there’s no fucking need to do this watch me pray in the street While the false Christians loot us Let’s go after the misguided Open fire on the looters IContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Michael Lacy”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Tiberius Galloway

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Ethan Goffman

I Am an Oracle In 2025 the United States as we know it will cease to exist. In 2042 I will die, alone and impoverished, in a shoddy facility set up, quickly and haphazardly, to house the elderly and terminally ill. Between those two events, my wife will die of a medical emergency. In 2070,Continue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Ethan Goffman”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Ari Whipple

Moonlight Sonata Make do with spirit and synapses that go and go and go and go Lift off outer space The stars are your only friends Jack Kerouac was a dick and his writing was the sign of pathetic, monkey typing Genius It pains me to say that he changes the times but were theContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Ari Whipple”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Michael Lee Johnson

Waltz Footprints in Snow Care to dance a new waltz renew, or drift back to those old vintage footprints− waltz with me footprints in snow fog covering over old snow. Rose Petals in a Dark Room I’m but a poet of this ministry, rose petals in a dark room fall. Everyone’s life is a conflict.Continue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Michael Lee Johnson”