Thomas Fucaloro is the author of two books of poetry published by Three Rooms Press, most recently It Starts from the Belly and Blooms, which received rave reviews. The winner of a performance grant from the Staten Island Council of the Arts and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, he has been on three national slam teams. He holds an MFA in creative writing from the New School and is a co-founding editor of Great Weather for Media and NYSAI press. He is a writing coordinator at the Harlem Children’s Zone and lives in Staten Island.

Apocalypse Preparation Check List

1. Band-Aids
2. The bible (to throw at demons, monsters and possessed priests)
3. Work on spelling, grammar and indexing
D. Don’t forget to water plants
E. Don’t forget the mighty
wrath of god, prepare for it,
embrace it, sell it to network TV
6.66 is a fraction of the total evil
7. Factor that in
8. Don’t fight it
9. Flaunt it
10. Die with your skin on
11. The Buick stops here