APOCALYPSE CONFIDENTIAL

ANNOUNCING: C0PPER_W1RE 🔫💽🤖 "Here, where life is short and cheap and where any bionic augmentations are done by one’s own hand or via gray-market surgeon..." w/ guest editor @KelbyLosackBRB artwork: @rvoy__ deadline: September 5 apocalypse-confidential.com/2025/06/16/ann…

I am always making fun of poetry. The random line breaks, the anti-rhyming, how it's always some bullshit about nothing. BUT THIS SHIT HITS. There's an audible rhythm in Frey's poems that's propulsive. I read these in the voice of poet savant RXK Nephew.

"Throw the reel. Green water flows over. Loon calls. Green water ripples. Doggirl I dreamt with the water. I was in a pail surrounded by burnt grass and garter snakes. Chewed up by dogs..." Lyrical backwoods triptych from @slowcorecowboy

"Here I remember fake smiles and heartbeats, Cracking the walls. Paid five dollar covers, All for me to step into the wrong room."

Glad to appear again in one of the best outlets doing it

THREE POEMS - Adrian Frey (@slowcorecowboy) "A sound like a vibrating crystal over the tinny speakers, Some blues song long forgot. A pinball machine chimes and finishes each bar, No voices just paranoid glances." apocalypse-confidential.com/2025/07/21/thr…

TWO OF MY POEMS ARE OUT THERE IN @APCON_MAG apocalypse-confidential.com/2025/07/25/a-b…

“A BLACK-AND-WHITE MOVIE” – “THE DYING SUN” - Nora Ray (@noraraywrites) "you woke up to the sounds of the agonizing sun. it whistled, clapped, and screeched." apocalypse-confidential.com/2025/07/25/a-b…

I'm proud of all the poetry we've published, but it's rare to read a poem that speaks to the heart of the human condition, of yearning, like this.

“I WANNA BE RICH” - H.L. Dowless "And I could make only a single wish; Son, I don’t mean to bitch, But hell man, I wanna be rich!" apocalypse-confidential.com/2025/07/23/i-w…

You flick off the mk.3 headset just before the CME burst fries your electronics. The combines are haywire. Synth-ØL junkies botched the line. Scoop the AutoMag and split. Hungarian firmware covers your tracks. Zip into the C0PPER_W1RE. 9/5/25 @APCON_MAG Get it how you live.

I put a lot of heart and thought into this essay. Check it out if you’re curious. Love you

"Plagued by these contradictions, Billy hung his project up and decided that his best option was to become a more amiable drunk."

DON’T FORGET THE COLESLAW - James Hanna "All in all, the Catholic Church, with its village view of God, seemed a mighty empty substitute for a pitcher of Michelob Light." apocalypse-confidential.com/2025/07/18/don…

Boss got you down, cowboy? Hitting the deck a bit too much? You've got a head full of silicone and the dex is wearing thin. Shiiiit... think you're unplugged, man. Take a breather. Shuffle your way down to the C0PPER_W1RE. @APCON_MAG >> ⁹•⁰⁵•²⁵

"They still haven't seen sun and shadow spill into each other, essence of green, slate, purple-bruise. It does not allow itself to be seen unless you are running across the sky, crashing into something you are not."

"Apollo and Artemis still need to turn day and night, and you are dusk and twilight, and you are between them, making them known to each other, but you are not them, and you are not there..." Phantom Parnassus from Lucas Roach

“INFINITELY THUNDEROUS” - Lucas Roach "On ice. Ice-boxxed. Christmas calf in the garage freezer. Just moments before, the children rubbed its velvet ears..." apocalypse-confidential.com/2025/07/16/inf…

wonderful essay by @rvoy__ in @APCON_MAG "It is my intention to bring to you an account of a time in which these ideas were attempted to be brought into everyday life, & a place in which there was a spreading excitement that a new world was being built" bit.ly/44wLCa2

This is urgent reading. Read this now.

Special @APCON_MAG this afternoon with an essay from our inspired and supremely talented Visualizer-in-Chief🫡