Bide – by Steven Ray Smith

Bide The meaning of life is death. The meaning of Christianity is life after death. The profusion of words is to bide time.   Steven Ray Smith

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3 senryu – by Helen Buckingham

the tension around my tension tension     full moon beyond good and evil     MLK Day the killing continues

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Barking Trees – by Josh Brown

The trees talk to me “Hey, fucker,” They whisper What the hell? I don’t know what to tell them Maybe fuck off But no I don’t want those trees to die I love them No matter how rude They bark at me.

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time to buy a new brand of spirit gum – by Maureen Kingston

you deplete me : unpleat me : I’m lost lord : help me : help me : o : for christ’s sake : (for my sake) : I tell you : woman : stop praying : get off your knees : stop lifting your mouth to big G god : or : if you must […]

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The Ten-a-Penny Parable – by Matt Hollingsworth

Alright, so we’re in a city, you all with me so far? So in this city there’s this man; we’ll call him Person A and Person A has ten million dollars in a briefcase. Don’t ask why he has so much money or why he’s choosing to carry it around with him. Anyway, we’ve got […]

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Jinapher J. Hoffman – Somewhere Else, Anywhere Else

I reach up, stick my tongue out. Momma sings to Little Brother in the nursery. My toy is on the top shelf. I have to climb to get it. Dad’s downstairs. He bellows out bad words. Baseball is on. I brace myself on top of his dresser. Momma stops singing. Dad stops shouting. The house […]

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Mark Danowsky – Worth Your Attention?

Music trumps information according to the author of Bug Music We will re-listen, he says when we will not re-read Music came first, after all and does not even require an instrument But so much music is noise just as words can be clutter and certain plants are weeds

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