JAKE is the king of bad taste, of broken forms, and broken rules. JAKE wants all of the shade of the bigger, badder mags, and he wants your funniest, strangest, or boldest words. JAKE is here to play without rules.

Ben Shahon

Inbal Gilboa

C.M. Green

Laurel Reynolds

JAKE

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"Almost gnat-like—this annoyance of flesh, this cicada sound between bones. A summer thrumming before the storm—gentle June warning"

How Would You Rate Your Pain?

When Gerard Way steps on the tiny Gröna Lund stage in Stockholm on June 14, 2022, he is wearing what appears to be a holy poncho from another dimension.

The Way of the Poncho Cult

"Honk if you think I’m so beautiful you want to pull me out of this car and kiss me at the intersection of Cherry Hill and Outer Drive"

Bumper Sticker

JAKE (Boo-Ya) 

Against a Handful

did you know barbie is short for barbara?
that’s entry-level trivia but i only learned it this year.
i’m not a fan of dolls, but something about the inconique of barbie
gets me more the older i get. i once spent six days scrolling deeper

nostalgia for what never was

i hate poet voice. i exaggerate
my vocal fry when i want to sound hotter
than i am. i talk from my chest when i want a chance
at avoiding she pronouns. i contort my body in the presence
of filters until i convince myself i'm almost as hot
as i think

poem in which i'm the bad guy

You don’t know when his hair turned gray or if yours is gray, too. The wheels are all gone, and the trucks rip out morsels of tar from the ground with every swing of the board, shoot them through the air like confetti.

The Thing About Two-Time Freestyle Skateboard Champion Mike Osterman Is That If You Ask Him to Walk the Dog, You’ll Have Piss All Over Your House

JAKE (!A Dried Cleaning!)

The Little Mermaid, Restrictive Parenting and Time Being a Joke

I was commissioned to sit inside this cellophane bag for six months and observe the tropical flora that’s blooming across the bay, but I’ve been in here 13 years now and I’m beginning to suspect that someone is playing fun with me.

Work

A baseball, on the other hand, is something everyone can agree on.

What is a baseball

"The times were far from happy, but they were stable and predictable in their badness, and that was almost good, in its own way."

Once Upon a Time in Maryland

Unidentified Snack-Mix, Orange and Salty (Last Seen Possibly Becoming The Christ)

I found myself somewhere between pleasure and fear. Surely that unflinching stare was searching for the very essence of my soul.

If Only for a Moment

Exemption

The Destroyers

Public Letter/Hocus Opus Press/RE: Haywire Ray

5:49p.m. on May 5, 1821 on St. Helena

teeth dreaming

your bokoblin arm is badly damaged

Ars Poetica

FTM Stigmata in the Truck Stop Men's Room

Sad Girls of Instagram

bathroom stall as a red room or prayer closet

"Every little boy needs a dog," barks your mother

Last Ride

Tableau

Desert Meadow

Philosophic Fragments

Shedding

I was dancing around to Fearless and
Glee when I said, “that’s too much, man.”

I burned every psalm and buried each prayer.
I screamed in parking garages for new gods.

Taylor Swift Releases "Midnights (3am version)" or My Friend and I Watch *That* Episode of "Bojack Horseman"

I lounge over these Victorian banisters while old family
secrets burst through every hinge in the house.

Gengangere ask me to bite my tongue but yell
at the blood on my chin and the splatter on the wood.

Gothic Pixie Bipolar Bitch

Sticky Note Aubade 

“Remind me again why you’re writing a burn piece about yourself.”

A Guide to Living and Dying on the Digital Frontier

When You're In Love With a Poet

you say i’ll go first if you promise to save me if i fall.

i say ok

and you take a step onto the rotted floor and it holds and i plod along behind you.

we get to the middle. I am a few steps behind you. it happens. your back foot falls.

i don't make promises anymore

The Sara Chain Letter

Best in Show, Reserve Champion

in the backseat / of an $11.69 Lyft home / darkness outside / creeping in / ultraviolet city lights / blot out the stars / darken the night sky

elegy for the walkable city

The Ghost's Leavetaking

poor teen girls / LET US HELP YOU ...... / fleshy DIRTY daughters — / DOWNLOAD NOW! / be a teen pinup /  ...... body and beauty to die for, / Photo, please.

It Girl Corpse: Or, I Cut up the National Enquirer and Turned It Into Shitty Poetry

A piece about what it's like to be a CNF writer, told during an evening with my partner.

Draft 1/Draft 5

Shopping malls and parking lots and all the places I knew I liked girls

Maybe a Butterfly Will Sit on Us

If I shouldn't fuck his dad as revenge, / then why would God make it so easy? I / mean there is literally no other option. 

Beekeeping age

Accumulations

Do you think some people think / about the past and want to make sure / everyone is fed so no one starves?

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