Franco Amati

New York

Writer at Freelance

Author at Garbage Notes

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failure to contribute

4 weeks ago | medium.com | Franco Amati

Member-only story Featured Franco Amati · Follow Published in Scuzzbucket · 2 min read · -- Photo by Sonny Sixteen on Pexels it’s astonishing how long it takes to experiment on what it means to have a good life the ambiguous and fractious nature of strangers… the eating of cocoa pebbles with different colored milks… wearing positive shorts and negative shirts neutral socks and so on… the machinery is unfair and my disposition is unassuming the part that makes sense starts right about here...
cherry pits / secret gifts

2 months ago | medium.com | Franco Amati

Member-only story Featured Franco Amati · Follow Published in Scuzzbucket · 2 min read · -- Photo by Sonny Sixteen on Pexels put the dishes in the dishwasher place the cups and mugs upside down place a bowl down for the cat, fill it up so he knows he’s loved put your socks on if you’re a little cold take your socks off if you need to feel free let someone draw you, blemishes and all cinch the drawstring, pull out the bag, and take out the fucking trash wipe the hair out of the sink trim your...
prayer to your self

2 months ago | medium.com | Franco Amati

Member-only story Featured Franco Amati · Follow Published in Scuzzbucket · 1 min read · -- Photo by Sonny Sixteen on Pexels whatever it is whatever happens whatever torment seeps out your pours know that I love you know that I am there know that your body was built to handle the punishments of this world trust that your heart can handle the trials of a lifetime remember that you are more than strong and you can take care of yourself I am telling you, I got you you can falter when the moment...
severed spheres

Jan 18, 2025 | medium.com | Franco Amati

Franco Amati · Follow Published in Scuzzbucket · 1 min read · -- Photo by Sonny Sixteen on Pexels don’t want to hear any voices in my head but my own sometimes you have to sit and wait for the right words to come I’m tired of chasing down some time-sensitive scheme things get more complicated the simpler they seem rules are in place because people fear the dangers of play to avoid casual cruelty we adopt the mindset of prey you can’t have fun games if you don’t let people be free no fantasies...
they don't get you

Dec 5, 2024 | francoamati.substack.com | Franco Amati

Garbage Notesfrom the writer who brought you Scuzzbucket—the original home for dirty realism, grunge lit, creative confessions, speculative fiction, and assorted literary atrocities—comes an even deeper level of personal poetics ... this is ... Garbage NotesNo thanks
mind-flea

Dec 3, 2024 | medium.com | Franco Amati

Franco Amati · Follow Published in Scuzzbucket · 2 min read · -- Photo by grayom on pexels my couch is my desk or should I say my writing space is my dumpy-ass couch sometimes I make use of the coffee table actually it’s not a coffee table, it’s this shitty little thing from Ikea… I think we can be better at doing nothing from time to time having agenda-less days where the stimulus threshold is somewhere close to zero, where nothing needs to register on the scale of how-bad-do-I-...
paper bars

Nov 27, 2024 | medium.com | Franco Amati

Franco Amati · Follow Published in Scuzzbucket · 2 min read · -- Photo by Leo Sacchi on Pexels just what I needed a morning fuck to kick off the next three days sunrise pussy is extra sweaty, both our bodies marinating in a bed-like stew, heated by the fire of an argument the night before… someone didn’t get their kiss, and someone didn’t know what for… you can’t act like you’re a prize, she said like, yeah, I’ll take it if you wanna give it but you gotta earn that goodnight token… shit, I...
tv static & seltzer

Nov 19, 2024 | medium.com | Franco Amati

Franco Amati·FollowPublished inScuzzbucket·2 min read·--Photo by Leo Sacchi on Pexelstv static tastes like seltzer does my blue smell the same to me as it does to you? is anyone else afraid of being swallowed up by the whole?
normal person institution

Oct 12, 2024 | medium.com | Franco Amati

Franco Amati·FollowPublished inScuzzbucket·2 min read·--Photo by Plato Terentev on PexelsI’m walking through a futuristic thing called a portal, except it’s boring and it leads to nowhere…listen, why don’t you save your enthusiasm for something that actually gets you going, for stuff that’s truly moving, for the kind of action that makes you float, for the kind of device that makes you feel free… to whom do I give credit for the accelerated decrepitude of my poor little cerebral cortex?
dishwater mediocrity

Oct 8, 2024 | medium.com | Franco Amati

Franco Amati·FollowPublished inScuzzbucket·1 min read·--Photo by Junchen Zhou on Pexelsat some point it feels like time-rent extraction, borrowing my consciousness to fill an already bargained for slot in this well-oiled and expensive techno-feudalistic machine, with a sort of managerial ethos that is somehow reminiscent of a sadomasochist’s never-ending fever dream… come on be honest, how hopeful does it seem?