Humor

Rules for Poetry

Rattle / October 6, 2020

Never use adjectives unless you’re trying to describe something and you don’t want to do it the hard way. […]

Rattle / May 17, 2018

I fired my secretary today. It felt like murder, although I’ve never murdered anybody. I’ve never fired anybody either and

Rattle / February 17, 2011

The question one will argue in this essay is what is a cannibal. You are so wrong if you said

Rattle / February 14, 2011

Two elderly farmers rocked on the front porch,talking and scratching an old hound dog’s head.“I swanny, I’m getting so gol-derned

Rattle / February 13, 2011

It was only after I’d left the chain pharmacy and was walking across the parking lot that I sensed something

Rattle / February 11, 2011

This is a terrific title, all your titles should be this good—like a playground with twirly and tunnel slides,