Saturday, July 30, 2005

SHOT DEAD

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by Peggy Smith Duke What, that would be helpful, can I tell a kid whose brother was shot in the head and died? A kid in the system for sexua...
Wednesday, July 27, 2005

after the attack: amusement park

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by Alisa Gordaneer life resumes again, the day after because after all, far away, after all, not here. we ride carousels, eat ice cream, ign...
Sunday, July 24, 2005

HARRIET TUBMAN'S EMAIL 2 MASTER

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(Subject: DirectionstotheNewPlace) by Truth Thomas go down past glass ground in your salt shaker make a right between arsenic sweet tea swal...
Thursday, July 21, 2005

LESSONS FROM A CHINESE PAINTER

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OR, WHY WE ARE LOST IN IRAQ by James Penha LESSON ONE To paint Cold Mountain in great detail I meticulously sketch before fine lines in penc...
Monday, July 18, 2005

JOHN

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by Robert M. Chute Act 1: Scene 1 Setting: a scholar’s study, dimly lit. On the desk a computer, its screen a swirl of clouds. (Word enters...
Thursday, July 14, 2005

YOU AND I BEFORE THE CERDA

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Contemplations on the barrier between the U.S. and Mexico required by the Real I.D. by Sara Campos You sit in the patio at the Auberge over...
Tuesday, July 12, 2005

BTK

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by Charles Harvey Had the Mother lived through your ordeal of orgiastic bloodlust of worshipping unpantied women of seeing the last quiver o...
Sunday, July 10, 2005

WE'LL HAVE PARIS

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by Wendy Taylor Carlisle a nation of oceans slumbers, night contracts like a black lung leaves only space enough for this parti...
Thursday, July 07, 2005

NeoApoc@lypse

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by Nostradamnus The bottom falls out. The middle crumbles. The top just floats. He@ven triumphs. The dead look good. The living look dead, T...
Wednesday, July 06, 2005

ODE TO BARRY McGUIRE

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by Jim Abraham Just before something happens and right before nothing, the process of destroying begins. It’s something that should frighten...
Sunday, July 03, 2005

"IT IS FOR THE JUDGES OF THE SUPREME COURT"

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CLASSIC VERSE NEWS by Walt Whitman from "Song of Myself" for the Fourth of July Stop this day and night with me and you shall po...
Friday, July 01, 2005

FLEAS

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by Tamara Kaye Sellman One of these days this bristly bitch is gonna shake us off like so much dirty bathwater. It’ll be a bigger ho...
Wednesday, June 29, 2005

DEATH A HARD SELL

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by Eve Rifkah Would be volunteers hold up hands in sign of cross back away as the numbers roll in across TV screens in t...
Saturday, June 25, 2005

REMEMBER THE PLEDGE?

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Ten Years After The Million Man March by Alicia Benjamin-Samuels Hush and raise your right hand. “I (say your name) pledge to …” love and ne...