Ivan Brkaric Accordion After a few beers out comes the accordion. “Uncle, play us those songs you use to sing.” Beautiful songs from when you were small. The notes you did not know, but the tunes your mind will never forget. Oh how you played an instrument of zeal that held our family together. How [...]
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#99
Posted in Poetry on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Snob Report #1
Posted in non-fiction on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Greg Oguss Nobody’s Special and So Are You: Synecdoche, NY He was born, he suffered, he died. –Stan Brakhage I come, I shoot, I return. –Tsvetan Todorov The above epigrams are two of the formulas that theorists have proposed to express the Grand Master Narrative of human existence. As these samples suggest, most GMNs boil [...]
#98
Posted in Poetry on June 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Allyssa Kasoff Generation Here’s to the generation of daisies yanked from ground left to rot behind waxy ears overloaded with whispers of I, you, them. Ornamented, punctured with peace signs. Disco balls that spin and sparkle above boys and girls summoning each other with sunken eyes. Alarms that siren our bodies for morning class. Mind [...]
#97
Posted in Poetry on June 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Christian Ward The Weathergirl Clouds blew their cover during the night, rain scudding across the window in code. I should have known something was up by the signs she gave me: fabricated television appearances, forecasts gathered from the tornado swirl of tea leaves, stilettos bought instead of wellingtons. Perhaps I should have seen this earlier; [...]
#96
Posted in Poetry on June 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Mel Bosworth 1989 Chevy Blazer 178K miles. One owner. Black & Silver. Red interior. Two-door. V6 engine. Strong 4X4. New tires. Trailer hitch. New stereo/CD player, one year old. New catalytic converter. Minor upholstery damage on driver’s seat. Minor rust in wheel wells. Small crack on windshield, no spider web. Could use new starter, and [...]
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