..:: CONTENTS ::..

..:: POETRY ::..
Adam Fieled
  Sarah Israel
Johannes Finke
  Documents etc. do not balance out
  Hardcore angel
  Recording, Melancholy
Dan Fisher
  from Fugue Report
Jenny Gillespie
  Burn
  Personal Forest
Thomas Hibbard
  KOURASAN
  BAD GUY
  RUBBLE
Claudia Keelan
  Little Elegies (Vietnam) 
  Little Elegies (cummingsworth)
  Little Elegies (Self and Other)
David Krump
  The Nine Day Ricochet
  Backsling in the Hickories
  C(harm
Tom Leonard
  suite On the Page
Christopher Mulrooney
  Continental System
Rochelle Ratner
  Date-a-Dog
  Jealous Lover Program Creator Is Indicted
  MUTT AND JEFF AT ALCATRAZ
  Testing
  California Inmate Seeks Release of Stuffed Dog
  Piggy Banks
Dennis Somera
  Earl Lee s. alvation jane=Paterson's curse s.v. Paterson;
  sweet ana lack to es
  Pleas
Stephanie Young
  UPPER MODERATION
  IN TWENTY DAYS I WILL BE THIRTY

..:: PROSE ::..
Douglas Cole
  Ghost
Laura Davis
  Touched
Mandy Kalish
  On the Fourth Pull
William Moor
  Four Robot Recognitions

..:: REVIEWS ::..
Jeremy James Thompson
  Joan Retallack, Memnoir
Sarah Trott
  Stephanie Young, Telling the Future Off
Sara Wintz
  Various, lunapark 0,10


..:: ETC ::..
  Contributor's Notes
  Legals
 

..:: ARCHIVES ::..
  Volume I, Issue I
  Volume I, Issue II
  Volume II, Issue I

 



     

after Albert Saijo

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEARES T
HANK YOU FOR YOUR
ATTEMPTS TO LOVE AND HEAL 
ME—BUT YOU SHOULD LEAVE—I 
CLIMBED OVER—LIVE NUDE 
BODIES—BEAUTIFUL NIPPLE N 
BELLYHIPS WRITHING—
FEMININE MAN BEGS ME NO T O 
GO BACK—THEY'RE AL L INING 
UP TO GET INTO THE PARTY—IN
A DUNGEON—BU T O LOOK—
JUSTIFIED—I FELT JUSTIFIED—IT 
DIDN'T FEEL BAD—'TIS NOT 
PAINFUL—IT DIDN'T FEE L IKE 
TORTURE—IT FELT LIKE 
NORMAL—YOU HURT ME—
DIDN'T MEAN TO—STILL—HURT 
ME DIDN'T YOU—YOU CAN ONLY 
HURT YOURSELF BY NOT 
ADMITTING IT—ONCE AGAIN—
DID YOU OR DID YOU NOT HURT 
ME?—THE GENEVA 
CONVENTION'S A BIT PASSE 
DONCHA THINK—YOOHOO—
YOOHOO—YOU WHO HELPE D 
UPLICATE MY DUNGEON THANK 
YOU BUT I MUST LEAVE—
WHILST I STILL CAN BEREAVE—
BREATHE—I'VE STILL GOT IT IN 
ME—BELIEVE IT OR NOT—I FEEL 
BETTER ALREADY—S O NE LIL 
TOUC H URTS N O NE—RIGHT—
MUST TOUCH—MUSTOUCH—
MUS T OUCH—MUS T OUC H URT
S TO P OUCH THE GOODS—THE 
NATURE OF THE NEED—POOLED 
WITH GREED—WE ALL KNOW—
AND IF YOU DON'T—CONSIDER 
YERSELF LUCKY—IT' S O FUCKIN 
G UUD—FOR YER OWN GOO
UD—YOU SHOULD LEAVE ME 
BE BEC BEC—LEAVE ME BE BEKKI 
THE SECONDS JUST KEEP ON 
COMIN'—CLEAVE ME BE CUZ HE 
COULD HURT ME AS MUCH AS I 
HURT YOU—DON' T OUCH—
DON'T OUCH—DON' T OUCH—
DON'T OUCH—JUST
REA L IZA SHUN—THERE'S A
LITTLE BOY STILL HANGING IN 
THERE—METHINKS IT'S ME—THE 
FRESH MEAT ARE LINING UP TO 
PUT ON MY BOYISH CARCASS—
SHAKE MY CARACAS—IT'S A 
PARTY—REMEMBER—I LOVE 
MEAT—THERE'S A ME IN MEAT—
THERE'S A MEAN IN MEAN T
RY ME ON FOR SIZE—I CUT M Y
ER OSCAR MEYER HANDS—AH 
BUT YOU'VE BEEN WEARING 
THEM AS GLOVES AGAIN—THEY 
REMIND YOU OF ME—THAT' S O 
DAMN CUTE—IT MAKES ME 
WANNA CRY—I DON'T REALLY 
WANNA SEE YOU GET ALL CUT U 
P ALMS—MAYBE YOU COULD 
NOT BE SO CLOSE—NOT WEAR 
MY CLOTHE S O MUCH 
ANYMORE—WHY DON'T YOU 
JUST GIVE ME BACK ALL MY
SHIT

 

—PLEAS—
Dennis Somera

 

  

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