I Have a Terrible Feeling is a series of weekly drawings, cartoons, and sketches by poet Adam Soldofsky.
I Have a Terrible Feeling is a series of weekly drawings, cartoons, and sketches by poet Adam Soldofsky.
’63 Chevy Impala
I had a brother once.
On the morning of my thirtieth birthday
I looked in the mirror and saw his face
on my face.
That was a first.
He chose to die six days later
halfway across the country
Good Luck: Episode Seven
In July of 1975, Brian Eno entered Island Studios to record his third album, Another Green World. He had no ideas whatsoever, having largely abandoned traditional songwriting, and now coming into bloom as an artist ‘playing the studio.’ He carried with him a deck of cards called Oblique Strategies.
Now playing on Otherppl, a conversation with Brittany Ackerman. Her debut memoir, The Perpetual Motion Machine, is available from Red Hen Press.
DOG DREAMS
Today the dog dreamed of honeysuckle.
Today the dog dreamed of cheeks.
Today the dog dreamed of god.
in the movie-line with my parents
my mom couldn’t get her MoviePass to work
because the app needed to be “updated”
my dad said “gimme the phone”
and then, with something like disdain
“I can’t see, I didn’t bring my glasses”
I Have a Terrible Feeling is a series of weekly drawings, cartoons, and sketches by poet Adam Soldofsky.
It’s a gray day
The sky is one, large cloud
I watch a flock of pigeons from my window on the 17th floor
I look down on them
The space heater sizzles
I’m picturing Christmas
I’ve been on hold with NBA League Pass Customer Support for 23 minutes
Good Luck: Episode Six
Five of us were packed in the work truck listening to a wacky morning DJ tell a story about a man who dug a tunnel from his basement to the bar down the block.
His wife didn’t want him drinking. He used the tunnel in secret to get drunk while she slept. The DJ went har har har har har, and shook a noisemaker.
Pat said, “She was right to ban him from drinking, he had a problem if he had to dig a tunnel.”
“And she must have had a problem too if she didn’t even notice her husband was digging an escape tunnel.”
The story was a hoax. But so are most stories. Especially stories involving tunnels.
Our first month over there in Najaf, while we were keeping the morning watch, me and Judson would hold our M16s out level with that well-dark sky and count down. The horizon was deep as a mineshaft, black and sucking up all my voice and air. One moment the world was blank, just the faintest blue haze smearing around the edges, and the next, that bullet of light would rocket up and blind you, full and ripe there just above the horizon.
Now playing on Otherppl, a conversation with Katya Apekina. Her debut novel, The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish, is available from Two Dollar Radio. Buzzfeed, Kirkus, and Entropy call it one of the best books of 2018.
HOUSE WINE
I throw my body around the room
Attempting to sweat out a decade
Of harm I’ll keep inflicting
Who am I to disrupt a pattern
My friend Alex is dead. He was 34 when he died.
I Have a Terrible Feeling is a new series of weekly drawings, cartoons, and sketches by poet Adam Soldofsky.
SAME THING
Talking to yourself
is really just
practicing all the cool shit
you might say to someone else
or maybe
wouldn’t waste on anyone else.
Either way, you know?
