Issue 56: 22 Feb 2018

/Issue 56: 22 Feb 2018

Thoughts & Prayers

By | 2018-02-21T10:32:45-08:00 February 22nd, 2018|Categories: Issue 56: 22 Feb 2018|Tags: , , , , |

By Jane Rosenberg LaForge   They are offered in rote as if the supply is bottomless; like abstractions, inaction and aesthetics; they could be meaningless or mean anything, so long as they are not so sustaining as steak & lobster for the impoverished; more like succotash & wilted lettuce. Maybe they’re a law firm the kind [...]

I Am Not a Person

By | 2018-02-21T14:11:37-08:00 February 22nd, 2018|Categories: Issue 56: 22 Feb 2018|Tags: , |

By Jessie Atkin                                                                                                I do not want children I decide, stretched out beneath the eyes of the late-night newsmen.                   My own eyes ache, but not as much as my ears, as my age, as my soul. Yet this ache, this loss without losing, without losing anything I have but the future stings less. It stings [...]

Two Poems by Gary Glauber

By | 2018-02-21T15:11:27-08:00 February 22nd, 2018|Categories: Issue 56: 22 Feb 2018|Tags: , |

Planet of the (r)Apes The melancholy rubble of all that once stood proud & we went along with the story, saluting & nodding when it seemed easy to do. What did we know & when? So many who buried knowledge behind shaky patriarchy, its false melancholic glory an inadequate foundation. Smiles confidently ignored awkward power [...]