Welcome to “Poetry at The Arts Fuse.” A new poem every Thursday

There’s Cake in the Break Room

Are you like me? Has the world

Harmed you in some immeasurable way?

What kind of relationship are you looking for

On here in this poem? / Don’t take it

Out until I scream / I’m going to sip

From the blood of the forsaken / Czech out

What your skull absorbed today

When no one shows up for your throuple

“You’re lookin’ like an angel on the walls

Of Versailles” / Get your personalized

Get Harumi Back plan / Sometimes I

Wrestle with my demons other times

I just snuggle / and piss on Charles Olson’s

Grave lit only by headlights – out of respect

Could this be the Anti-Christ?

I take super hot showers to practice

Burning in hell / When the unsaved number

In your phone starts catching feelings

When Youtube gives you an unskippable ad

Find some people and topics to follow now

Jim Behrle is the author of National Poetry Month is a Joke in Your Town: Best American Poetry 2026. “Showy McShowface with Jim the Poet” broadcasts Sunday mornings from 3-6 AM on WFMU.

Note: Hey poets! We seek submissions of excellent poetry from across the length and breadth of contemporary poetics. See submission guidelines here. The arbiter of the feature is the magazine’s poetry editor, John Mulrooney.

— Arts Fuse editor Bill Marx