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       presents politically progressive poetry on current events and topical issues.

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

MAN CONFRONTS POLICE WITH POTATO PEELER

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by Rochelle Ratner It came in the mail last week, pre-thanking him for his donation to some charity or other. He threw out the brochure but ...
Tuesday, May 30, 2006

THREE FOUND STANZAS

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1. TO KNOW We know what a disarmed regime looks like. We know what it means to disarm. There's no negotiations. --George W. Bush, Bu...
Monday, May 29, 2006

HOME RUN SCIENCE

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by Suzanne Gullotto For Robert This is science, faithless ones will tell you, using technical terms, citing complicated physics to describe ...
Saturday, May 27, 2006

JAVA MORNING

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by James Penha This island will eat me alive absorb me and I will learn its dance from nerves to blood hand to hand eye to eye among the mi...
Friday, May 26, 2006

WE MUST LEARN TELEPATHY

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by Phyllis Wax They want DNA, fingerprint, retinal scan for a driver's license or passport, to get on a plane or train, enter a public b...
Thursday, May 25, 2006

LIE-L@G M@NTR@S

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by Bill Costley for Slavoj Zizek Whenever They say it, it’s no-longer still-True; They rely on lie-l@gs & they s@p you w/them: You f@ll ...
Wednesday, May 24, 2006

FATHER AND SON 2003

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by Robert M. Chute On March eighteenth the son, our President then, delivered his ultimatum. The war would soon begin. That night I dreamed ...
Tuesday, May 23, 2006

LESBIAN MARRIAGE

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by Mary Saracino no bands of gold, no tiered cake, no training veils of lacy white, no engraved invitations, no roses entwined in hair, sh...
Monday, May 22, 2006

from WHITE NOISE

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by Robert Emmett during the war buddhist monks set themselves on fire in the streets of saigon in their silence far away static crackles lif...
Sunday, May 21, 2006

ALIBI LULLABY

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by Verandah Porche 1. Click on the cross to enlarge this image— Black gold, a nice chunk of change. W arrogance makes you see W snicker, sw...
Saturday, May 20, 2006

McDONALD'S FRIES MADE GIRL

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VERY SICK WOMAN SUES McDONALD'S OVER BLOOD IN FRIES WOMAN SUES GEORGETOWN McDONALD'S RESTAURANT - CLAIMS BLOOD IN HOT FUDGE SUNDAE M...
Friday, May 19, 2006

AMERICA SLASHED HER WRISTS AGAIN

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by Jon Wesick I found her naked and unconscious in the bathroom on election night. Her lost blood pooled on the linoleum. One red handprint ...
Thursday, May 18, 2006

OLD PENNY

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by Mark Jackley Dropped, perhaps, by a soldier marching to his fate in 1943, and landing in the pocket of a hobo in Fort Wayne, before escap...
Wednesday, May 17, 2006

RUMINATIONS OF AN AGING FEMINIST

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by Doris Henderson Maybe you’re thinking about your lost love or looking at that spot on the wall where you meant to hang a picture, and sud...
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