Literary Underground

The Literary Underground is a grassroots effort committed to supporting and promoting the creative arts in the independent press.

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Burning the Evidence - Burning the Evidence Some of us call ourselves outlaws, like in the old movies, running the night, in a Sid Vicious t-shirt quoting Bukowski or Blackbeard’s final words, taking what we want, feeling that we are winning, one... https://t.co/IKVbbr7OaD

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Nothing Wasted - Nothing Wasted I am using the last of your shampoo. I spent the 84 cents left on the desk where there once stood a vase with yellow flowers. I am playing the Pink Floyd album you forgot. I gave the leftover pack of cigarettes to... https://t.co/8FI7klYFaL

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Love Crazy - Love Crazy I have accepted the fact that I only fall in love with insane and unstable women. Smoke rising from my house, cut my brakelines, total my truck while smiling type of insanity. Some can hide it for days, even months like a... https://t.co/yELnD6EJHj

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Moon Rocks and Magic - Moon Rocks and Magic And there we were floating, relaxing in the pool, warm water under a southern summer sky with clouds rolling in from the tropics at ten to midnight telling each other the kind of stories we tell when... https://t.co/E7bmL9CfU6

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Nursery Rhymes, Mythology, in the Cancer Ward, my Sister - Nursery Rhymes, Mythology, in the Cancer Ward, my Sister Talks Until her smoke break embeds in her chest holds the chemoed places small cell traitors require radiation I travel with... https://t.co/ywUWmyTO0e

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Med-Time - Med-Time My sister, Thorazine, smacks of Tardive Dyskinesia, cigarettes, tooth decay, bangs border her forehead plastered in a hairspray strait jacket Gidget does 50, a slap dash of a ‘do those garish pink bows when the waitress seats... https://t.co/86ZJiKoJqA

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This year the Spring Lit-Away, Lit Literary Collective’s annual writer’s retreat, will be held in Three Rivers, Michigan on Friday, May 3 to Sunday, May 5, 2019. Applications will be accepted until April 1, 2019. https://t.co/9Qg0InAhrB

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hey y'all, remember Killpoet.. that visually lovely and word-slingin online journal? well, one of the creators, Jason Neese and his brother Jamie have co-produced the "biggest digital show in the US." how about that? if you haven't already, binge,... https://t.co/35rcJ69YBF

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it's that time of year again...https://t.co/PSGulSZZNA https://t.co/PSGulSZZNA

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was scanning the blog for something else but found this and thought, hey--why not save a few more lives and repost this STAT. "The Literary Underground cannot officially endorse the use of book blurbs,... https://t.co/gsiAPiQRNH

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3 new ones up at THIS IS POETRY. welcome Donna Snyder to the series! #thisispoetry <3 #poetsofthesouth https://t.co/1mQ1m9JCiT https://t.co/1mQ1m9JCiT

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I am South - I am South Once there were women who made many kings by taking their mates The tacit memory... https://t.co/hrLlQjOBSO

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Him all Jack Kerouac and shit - Him all Jack Kerouac and shit him all Jack Keroac and shit his biography... https://t.co/V1ci1VKY90

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Dead  hands - Dead  hands The dead reach out across the desert, burned like bricks by the enemy sun.... https://t.co/98tclOoH3x

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PTSD - PTSD Crash of glass and suddenly you’re inside and I yell to the kids to run downstairs and you’re... https://t.co/uY9fFgjFzY

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Flowers From Walmart - Flowers From Walmart He bought her flowers from Walmart Bruised eye, fractured... https://t.co/7OjunKgSQv

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The Stoplight - The Stoplight I am stranded at a light. The turn signal blinks for a left turn, making the... https://t.co/PJebb3ekFV