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Here in the Future

By | 2020-12-08T17:29:39-08:00 December 10th, 2020|Categories: Issue 124: 10 December 2020|Tags: , , , , , , , |

By Keith Welch The Future Ain’t What it Used to Be. –Yogi Berra   We were promised flying cars, and condos on the moon, even racial equality: all those great sci-fi gags. Those were the glory days, the Future. Everything polished smooth and covered in chrome. In the fifties, we had the scent of unlimited progress [...]

Cop Sonnet

By | 2018-04-17T14:58:10-07:00 April 19th, 2018|Categories: Issue 60: 19 April 2018|Tags: , , |

By Keith Welch We'd like to think that all our cops are fearless that their well-trained minds are sharp and quick but certainly they're worse than useless unless they can tell a pistol from a stick Or when a suicidal person's begging for an ending to their tortured grief does a policeman's duty include abetting desire [...]

White Privilege

By | 2017-08-09T13:47:45-07:00 August 10th, 2017|Categories: Issue 35: 10 Aug 2017|Tags: , |

By Keith Welch   the U.S. Caucasian has a marvelous power invisible, noticed only by its absence subtle in action: the lack of a shadow following you through a 7-11 or utterly, terribly clear: the lack of 19 bullet holes piercing your body on the news, you may notice your senior photo instead of a mug [...]