from the writer who brought you Scuzzbucket—the original home for dirty realism, grunge lit, creative confessions, speculative fiction, and assorted literary atrocities—comes an even deeper level of personal poetics ... this is ... Garbage Notes
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nobody gives a fuck
Photo by Plato Terentev
do it for yourself
because nobody gives a shit
you think anyone gives a flying fuck?
everyone’s got their own problems,
their own complicated worlds to worry
about — not a single soul is agonizing...
in our comfort phase
photo by Plato Terentev
it took twelve years for you
to trust me enough to sleep beside me
and now in your old age, your tenderness,
your frailty, I feel as deep a bond as can
be had between living things, one that
transcend...
bullshitocracy / dare to dream
photo by Plato Terentev
we think we live in a meritocracy
but we actually live in a bullshitocracy
it’s all about who can convince themselves
and others that they deserve the things they get
the truth is, we all want to be prai...
broken down merry-go-round
photo by Faruk Tokluoğlu
life is a fucking mess sometimes
a broken down merry-go-round
the sound is all busted
and the horses are all fake
your seat isn’t so comfortable
the ups and downs are all scripted
and the person a...
everyday apocalypse
photo by Plato Terentev
I’m a zombie in the morning
I wake up and don’t even know what I am
everything somehow feels unfamiliar
even though I’ve done this a million times…
the alarm is a neurotoxin, feeding caustic
signals to...
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Franco Amati is a speculative fiction writer and poet from New York. Author of the poetry collection WORK IS WORK (2026, Scuzzbucket Books) francoamatiwrites.com
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