..:: CONTENTS ::..

..:: POETRY ::..
Sarah Trott
  monumental
Christopher Eaton
  Poems for Burning Down Black Ark
Jennifer Dearinger
  the cup having not been washed of the rifle under the bed
  indian head nickels
  crystal serving plate
  wrapped in the sheets
  dirtied knees from somewhere
  _______
  unscattered ashes
mIEKAL aND
  JOSEPHY BEUYS, the day gurdjieff died
  Row Under Rivers
  Avant Garde Country of Contemporary Art
Jeffrey Schrader
  Ships in Bottles
  Deconstruction of V
  From “Pittsburgh Notes”
Noah Eli Gordon
  from Jaywalking the Is
David Applegate
  [A silent]
  [I don't know]
  [You juggled]
  [Our sky]
Lynn Strongin
  MOVED TO. . .
Amy King
  Leisurama Porn Couples Dance
  How To Make a Painting
Bill Stobb
  Poem for an American Barbeque
  I Truly Believe Bill Gates is a Good Person
  Spiraling
Jason Fraley
  Evidence
Friedrich Kerksieck & Aaron James McNally
  Untitled
M. Mara-Ann
  A Running Horse Veiled
J.D. Mitchell-Lumsden
  (fatehah)
  (on air late sunday evening)
  (the women, an intercepted letter)
  (to us)
  (elections)
  (fatwa ii)
Lizzie Brock
  Work that Body
  Untitled
Jacob Eichert
  Untitled (film/dvd)

..:: PROSE ::..
Powell Burke
  Evensong
Michael Chacko Daniels
  Touch me? Vaya Con Dios inbound on the 22 Fillmore!
Sandra Hunter
  Take It Away
Paul Kavanagh
  Photography
Paul Silverman
  Letter To B

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

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

 


I Truly Believe Bill Gates is a Good Person
Bill Stobb

     

What are you doing Friday night?
Wanna come over and link a
dirty Bill Gates cartoon to a virus file?

Nothing you or I say
will affect Bill Gates.
Say Bill Gates is ugly.
Say Bill Gates is king.  See?
It's really wonderful how certain
kinds of creativity have no
actual consequences.

By at least one objective measure
Bill Gates is the best person ever.

One Bill-Gates-based political system
would be to use military force
against Bill Gates
redistribute his assets
and create world peace.

Sticks and stones may break Bill Gates's bones
but Bill Gates supports free speech.

I truly believe Bill Gates is a good person.
I wonder: if we worshipped him a little
would he save us more?
Right click to save Bill Gates
roller mouse stigmata file.
Right click to save Bill Gates's
penis to your online reliquary.
Right click to make Bill Gates's
peaceful countenance swirling in
the Pope's hot cocoa your wallpaper.

As a Lutheran
I don't subscribe to the angry Bill Gates.
If Bill Gates read this poem
a gentle smile would cross his face
like a sunbeam.  Let's try
holding hands.  Let's believe
as hard as we can
and see if Bill Gates will appear.

  

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