Marty Shambles
Marty Shambles
everything is airport
by Marty Shambles
“My episode of the Samurai Show is playing on the television. That's where people are paid to have body parts chopped off by a samurai. Game shows are the major driver of the economy. The VIP lounges are populated with people who are missing limbs, digits, noses, ears, tits, dicks, you name it.”
never live with your dealer
by Marty Shambles
“Never live with a cocaine dealer, and if you must live with one, never discuss your favorite presidents.”
delusions of granulated sweetness
by Marty Shambles
“…i went home with you and did what was expected of me and then some. i don't want to seem flippant about the importance
of keeping the talent satisfied.”
mother is gone
by Marty Shambles
“People were losing their minds to AI. Cults sprung up where jobs used to be. The whole Western Neoliberal experiment was choking on its own tail…”
the pitch
Poetry by Marty Shambles
“step right up folks / step right up! / come see the amazing analog poet / watch this human anachronism / use an organic computer made of skull goo / to formulate sentences never before / uttered by man or machine.”
after me comes the flood
by Marty Shambles
“Every weekday I would go to work and say business words at people and then come home as if I’d done something.”
kayfabe
by Marty Shambles
“The mansion and the cars were now probably in the hands of some rapper doing fat rails off Harry's countertops and fornicating in his hot tub, spunking up the filters.”
poker night
by Marty Shambles
“I looked my mother dead in the eye and asked her if we were going to be okay, and she said yes…She was then sucked up into the sky, but I was fine.”
a series of scenes concerning vibes (act iv, part ii)
by Marty Shambles
“when you're a stegner fellow an assistant follows you around and bottles all of your farts for posteriarity.”
a series of scenes concerning vibes (act iv, part i)
by Marty Shambles
“she would jog all year round, even in san antonio summer when every year a news crew would show you could fry an egg on the pavement.”
a series of scenes concerning vibes (act iii)
by Marty Shambles
“The grace of a starlet splashes on my lens. You are blonde magick, electric silk; resplendent.”
a series of scenes concerning vibes (act ii)
by Marty Shambles
“The great economy of darness is at my back / When you die you go to a city / made of all the trash you ever discarded.”
a series of scenes concerning vibes (act i)
by Marty Shambles
“I thrive on vibes and commercials are shrill vibe killers. They're inert fucking nothings that scream in 30 second intervals….Everything is Spectacle.”