Gordon Mason Tramcars Wooden tramcars creak through cobble beds like chapters of an endless novel. Second-hand bookstores lagged by books that remember their old owners as borrowed eyes. To find the prize is to seek but not in the same day: it may be years behind schedule. Cafes hold ladies with hours of voice time [...]
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#65
Posted in Poetry on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
#64
Posted in Poetry on October 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
John Rocco To Zygote in My Coffee 2003-2008 You gave my slow old horse wings and let him out of the stinking stable. You let me fly on acid jet planes covered in bloody stars and bleeding stripes shooting across the plain of pain. You let me sing dirty songs to the lost and found [...]
#63
Posted in Poetry on October 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Becky Hunt Hunting, Gathering, Slathering, Bothering Oh, so it’s not inside. That’s a surprise. My hand slaps against my forehead and stays there. I’m amused, thinking: What a charming dolt! I also think: Check outside, it’s probably there. I do, opening the front door and peering at the step. Nothing. A young dog walks past [...]
#62
Posted in Poetry on October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ann Tetreault The Language of Birds: The Preface It is the seeking The melding of understanding and flight I cannot attach myself Is that sigh an “I” or “you” I strain to be complete To follow the trail Winding throughout, that signifies the end The golden recognition Changing the life lead to the life leading [...]
Hyperbation #1
Posted in Gonzo, non-fiction on October 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Joseph Goosey A Fine Day Inside My Local Book Vendor “Why?” she asked, “Why do you always spend so long in the bookstore?”
#61
Posted in Poetry on October 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ben Barton Tattooed Hearts Every man has his secrets Every husband in bed betrays his wife on the pillows each and every night. No one will ever know the lives and loves that the men of the world lead while in dreams.
OMG, Click Me! #2
Posted in non-fiction on October 7, 2008 | 5 Comments »
AV Flox The Disconnect In The Age of Ambient Awareness Steven Porricelli has never thrown his wife’s laptop out the window, but he’s wanted to. “Technology is a necessary evil,” he told LifeWire about his wife, Jane, who runs MomGenerations.com. “She’s always texting in one hand and Twittering (an online social network and messaging service) [...]
#60
Posted in Poetry on October 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Graham Isaac at the chip shop the queue is enormous, bunched and snaked into that narrow room between order counter and tables, a few droop-eyed patrons eating their 3 a.m. suppers. The two behind the counter asking as quick as mouths can take them in Indian accents for our orders, for the two lads with [...]
Cash Rules Everything Around Me #6
Posted in Gonzo, non-fiction on October 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Greg Oguss on Pop Culture I AND I Metaanything, as the self-proclaimed Internet webcocks refer to commentary about commentary, seems to be everywhere these days. On Gawker, snarky columns mock Wired for illustrating the backhanded art of the unflattering cover with a front page photo of former Star! columnist Julia Allison captioned by a headline [...]
RSS This #5
Posted in non-fiction on October 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Richard Nesberg The 2008 US Dejection With a month or so remaining before Americans select their next President, us citizens have the chance to make one of the most historical political choices in our country’s adolescent existence; either the palatable Senator from Illinois or demon hellhound Governor from Alaska. With the opportunity to put an [...]
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