Remembering 9/11- Remembering Jimmy Cherry
This is a memorial post dedicated to the late Jimmy Cherry who my family lost on 9/11/04. A different tragedy, for a different reason. I published this in 2009 in the first years of Oddball Magazine. Jason
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The Third Annual Oddball Christmas Story- The Lonely Boy on Christmas by Jason Wright-Editor GalleryThe Third Annual Oddball Christmas Story- The Lonely Boy on Christmas by Jason Wright-Editor
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The Third Annual Oddball Christmas Story- The Lonely Boy on Christmas by Jason Wright-Editor
There once was a town it seemed that was always cold. Even when it was warm it still was always cold. The people were mean. The people weren't [...]
Jagged Thought #2: Stuck
Stuck in the mud I'm stuck In the mud Not dumb but wish I Could be someone Realistically Statistically Idiocy is my History Where Nothing matters But whatever I'm writing sentences [...]
Re: Introduction by Jason Wright
Hello, In case you haven't seen me lately, I would like to reintroduce myself. My name is Jason Wright and I am the editor and founder of Oddball Magazine. I [...]
Roses are Red Violets are Blue by Jason Wright
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIsPjQPTPjE&feature=youtu.be So a lot of people don't get poetry this poem is for them... Roses are red, Violets are blue This is the beginning of a poem You've known since childhood [...]
Salem Poetry Trials by Jason Wright
Witches are stupid Poets kind of are like witches We all stick to our covens Our cauldrons Our magic wand But I couldn't get down with witches Back in Salem When [...]
Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday by Jason Wright
I dropped the ball today Fell on my face today Almost broke my headphones And heart today Limped around all day Looked crazy today Said that I couldn’t take it anymore [...]
Lavender (Manics who can’t sleep revisited) by Jason Wright
Back on the train This is what I do Feeling unglued Got to put my self together Again Last night I wrote a poem And read it to an audience And [...]
Prove it by Jason Wright
How do I prove that I belong on the mic with all of you? Alright let me try Well been writing nearly half my life through times of strife and lows [...]
Boston Strong (the heartbeat of the City) by JSN WRT
It reeks like good bud on the train today No other way to finish a shitty day Getting a contact high in the spot I'm standing Writing a week after the [...]
April 16 train poem by Jason Wright April 16th Poem a Day national Poetry Month
I'm too tired to write Barely got any sleep last night Stayed up watching the news Still confused from this craziness What about you? how did you sleep Hope you were [...]
A Writers Job by Jason Wright ( Marathon Monday, Boston MA 2013)
Everyone expects writers to write about tragedy when it strikes, you know? Let the newspaper do that Let writers give you an escape, from all that. That’s my job. I [...]
Listen To the Beat of the Drum by JSN WRT (Oddball Magazine’s 200th POST!)
When I am blocked, and I can't write I call it a free prose, its when you let yourself go for as long as you can, it used to be [...]
the difference (the good side of me) by JSN WRT [poem 10 1/2]
O.k, you heard me earlier on the train acting insane, filling the pen with rage now I got the hiccups, and thinking of all the shit I said and I calm [...]
9th in Cambridge (the words I write) by Jsn Wrt
missing 9th in Cambridge Yeah I'm missing 9th in Cambridge I don't think I could handle it My mind is a demon mind I mean a diamond mine Depends on which [...]
Comas, Commas/Carrots, Karats by JSN WRT
When you stare at a computer screen. When you look out a window. When you stare into a mirror (You are now rocking with) Open the window, and the [...]
April 8th Eggs Day 8 by JSNWRT
Writing the art of Walking in slow motion While everyone flys past you You prove yourself as a distance That they can't get to You are a star a bright constellation [...]
April 7th- Poem 7 National Poetry Month- After words what is there?
Whats poetry, to me, but a world where doors open and never close, as long as your free prose, keeps going, and as long as their is ink in the pen, [...]
New Day by Jason Wright
Sweating Waiting for the breeze To take me away From these city streets Listening to Emcees And Dreaming of beaches Feeling free as I walk My mind is on weekend mode [...]
I wish I could be Jim Morrison by Jason Wright
I wish I had a thousand apologies, for my brain and all its awkwardcies for all the pain I see in my minds eye Nobodies perfect, people make mistakes, but I [...]
Cold Metal Chair by Brendan Trider And Cold Metal Chair Visualized by OJ Mooney
Cold Metal Chair Visualized by OJ Mooney […]
We are the Gas. You are the Match by Jason Wright
See this is a scene "The Blue Sphere" Shahnawaz Achhiwala © 2010 Where dreams take shape Shift like riots on tv Where the walrus speaks And says. “We are [...]
Mind Changes
the pills I take To make my hands not shake To make my mind erase Each place Where I've stayed too long Or wrote a song with no rhymes No reason [...]
Punk Fish by jason wright
Punk Fish it is a lazy sunday, in my boxers listening to cash and kinks kind of day, a soulful sunday listening to the sounds of silence and loneliness, the sounds [...]