WET BULB 2


︎︎︎ Bernard Cohen

︎ Mar 20, 2025

The heat broke. Leaving
millions of

Destitute businessmen,
black slimes

After fernet and healthy
snacks

And a blowout

Is the party over? Can
we try cocaine?

The weed is wild and it’s
glowing and

I traced a desire line
back to you.

You in the bath,

On drugs in wet bulb

My interest in you
piqued

In this viral weather

Contain your
combustive motivation

Unbark that dog on the
sidewalk

Crying out for you to

Do something about the
people

Dying in wet bulb




Bernard Cohen is an author based in New York City whose work has appeared in No More Prostitutes, Expat Press, HAD, and others. He also runs the online publication Charm School with his friend Vivi Hayes.

Also by Bernard: WET BULB





Very Advanced Technology


︎︎︎ Kat Thanopoulos

︎ Mar 19, 2025

Cellular tech phone
Use it to watch boobs bounce
Instead of texting my mom
Or learning about nuclear fission!







Kat Thanopoulos lives, writes, and works in Chicago. She is the author of the poetry collection Normal Behavior and the editor of WREATH magazine.

Also by Kat: Make / Made





godmorgen world


︎︎︎ Alyssa Gengos

︎ Mar 18, 2025

stolen brandy melville underwear
5 hour walk
sit on my hands while I talk

you say george is your favorite but maybe just because he’s my favorite

george is my favorite and I deserve love,
I think, naked in the steam room of the 24 hour korean spa

become unfumblable or else you can’t bring your horse around to my place anymore















Alyssa Gengos writes love letters and other songs in Los Angeles.

Also by Alyssa: mouth feel





Please Take Your Love Away From Me


︎︎︎ Vivi Hayes

︎ Mar 15, 2025

Flirt out the signal durations
—champion centrifugal forces
to a cloth doll full of feathers.
I’m multivocal,
you know.
I used to be her
and I was so precious.

Disable BIOS memory options;
my bedroom is Giger steel.
We wane and swell
Thursday
Sunday
I spot your ankle
through the linen sheet

and it’s real, it’s like the floaters.
I’ll leave you on the surveillance
couch, your muffled beaming.
Destiny for the PS4:
siphoning your dander,
“you sucker!”

Your wallet the way you left it,
we share without asking.
Lay prone in the appliance section,
next to the discount polemic
—in wait for new magic



Vivi Hayes is a writer from Atlanta and the associate editor of Perfectly Imperfect Newsletter. Her work has appeared in ExPat Press, No More Prostitutes, and elsewhere. vivihayes.net

Also by Vivi: Dual Shrub Mountain





NO MORE BIRDSONG,
I WANT YOUR LAUGH


︎︎︎ Lamb

︎ Mar 13, 2025

white on the mountain
warm in the valley

all ways I walk
a bird in monologue

I return to the house
for my quiet chair

to find six finches
hopping in the seat

crying how they
miss their mothers

each pleading
to speak with me

                          in private
























Lamb is an American writer. lamb.onl

Also by Lamb: ON PURPOSE