Friday, October 31, 2008

HALLOWE'EN FEAR

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by John Newmark I fear I'm becoming old as I react negatively to the growing cleavage on Hallowe'en costumes marketed to pre-teen ma...
Thursday, October 30, 2008

ACUPUNCTURE

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or BEING A CANDIDATE IN ‘08 by Art Goodtimes Everyone’s focused on Obama to win this year. His face like moxie held to the sky. Me I'm t...
Wednesday, October 29, 2008

POSTCARDS FROM THE NEWSROOM

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by David Chorlton I With all their appearances on late night television we can’t tell politicians from comedians. The situation is serious. ...
Tuesday, October 28, 2008

ANTARCTICA

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by Ed Webb In the least accessible place on the surface of this infested earth A statue of Lenin protrudes from snow, Abandoned camp below h...
Monday, October 27, 2008

MONEY GO BYE BYE

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BANK ACCOUNT DOWN WAY DOWN--DOWN DOWN DOWN DOWN DOWN--NO END IN SIGHT WISH I HAD MORE BUT I DON’T HELLO LONG LINES AT THE CAR WASH EMPLOYEE ...
Sunday, October 26, 2008

CONCERNING THE WAR IN __________

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by Janice D. Soderling Rapid changes in media focus make it difficult to assign an attention-grabbing title to this poem. The reader is req...

BY ONE VOTE

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by Robin E. Sampson Maybe it was mine. Another referendum up before the voters, yea or nay, they want more money. So do I. Especially now. I...
Saturday, October 25, 2008

LET US PRAY

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by Anne G. Davies McCain didn't see the warning signs: How brightly her ambition shines How easily she turns abusive Or did he wish not ...
Friday, October 24, 2008

FACE

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by Mike McCulley I dread a different face as naturally as a sandpiper dreads a falcon, and the alert sandpipers survive to hatch chicks with...

THE FIRE (ANTS) NEXT TIME

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A fable for our time; a nod to James Baldwin. by Earl J. Wilcox Many years ago, a few colonies surfaced on the front lawn, under the cherry...

SOUTH DAKOTA

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by Buff Whitman-Bradley On our way east across America. Stopping one afternoon in Rapid City to see Marletta Pacheco, whose grandmother was...
Thursday, October 23, 2008

DAD CHASES NUDE BOY FROM DAUGHTER'S BEDROOM WITH PIPE

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by Amy Holman Governor Sarah Palin, too, likes abstinence for our eager youth. That poor lovin' boy is wailin' from his bloody head,...
Wednesday, October 22, 2008

DICK TO LARRY

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by George Spencer ". . . if you closed Guantanamo, you'd have to find someplace else to put these folks." --Dick Cheney to Lar...
Tuesday, October 21, 2008

F-LIES

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by Sherman Pearl This is the season they swarm-- into your mouth so you’re forced to swallow them, into your ear whispering secrets and rumo...