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For Amanda Todd by Jessica Reyes

Lonely Angel Don’t let hope go Lonely angel Don’t cry anymore Lonely angel All your pain has ended Lonely angel No one can hurt you anymore

Backfire by Ellen Reich

Terror in eyes that shone back vermillion A child alone, frozen by wild-fire My house is burning down My mama’s boss he say The fire won’t get bad He say for her to stay at work Terror in eyes that shone back vermillion A child alone, frozen by wild-fire My house it burned down The […]Read Post ›

On the Revolution by Chuck Taylor

I wish I could eat a capitalist. I see their stores and feel their fists everywhere, but I can’t find them anywhere. They’re not the little businessmen in their little vans scrubbing your carpets or trimming your poodles. They live on tax-free offshore islands now, behind walled estates. I’d like to eat a capitalist. I’d […]Read Post ›

Showertime Reflections by Hardik Gandhi (The Harmonist)

In the hollow cubicle, glistening needles fall on my head, Injecting twisted light it picked up from various parts of the planet. The Total Internal Reflection that held the light rays, Hit below critical angle, Inside the lower density fluids in my latent brain. They run to assemble at the core […]Read Post ›

You Move Me by Thay Alaffita

You move me. You move me like a tidal wave, rush me to the shore — pretend to let me go but then you always pull me back into your depths and into your arms where I can bury my face in your chest and find the rest of us looking for answers, finding a […]Read Post ›

Don’t Deny Kinfolk by Richard Peake

Where did Jonathan Swift find his models for the Yahoos raining filth on poor Gulliver in horse land? He merely copied our close kin. We love to see the antics of primates who provoke us to spasms of laughter, yet many of us are hard to placate, refuse to believe we ape gene mates. Observe […]Read Post ›

Artists Know the Trickle Down Smells Like Piss by Chad Sorg

Bureaucracy is any system designed to slow down progress. We can’t have anyone excelling too quickly–no one is to be trusted. We wanna make sure no one gets too far outta’ line and a paper trail is needed at every turn. Bureaucracy is designed to keep everyone huddled as closely as possible. And to be […]Read Post ›

A Guilty God by Shae O’Brien

It was long long ago In the scriptures of old When my mother’s mother Did not do what was told But with curiosity You gave her When in Your image You did mold Do You ever seek forgiveness from me? They were Your chosen people With no church and no steeple When they strayed from […]Read Post ›

For Mike Vecchio My First Love by Kathryn Ann Stewart

For Mike Vecchio My First Love October 2011 When the grip of sorrow held my hand I was not seduced. I told you then and tell you now the truth. For years I did resist all memories – all I could do in your absence was speculate. Why did you chose another over the love […]Read Post ›

In Memory Of Captain Joseph Coluzzi 1954-1998 by Kathryn Coluzzi

Married for 180 days formerly Kathryn Ann Stewart-McDonald My husband and I lived peacefully in a village on Saipan, and island so far from concerns of our Mainland, we thought we were free. Free from the troubles which plague most of the rest of our strange country. My husband was a good Captain at sea. […]Read Post ›