Month: October 2015
“Music is the fuel…”
by Cody S. Decker art by Stephen Bischoff Music is the fuel that keeps us going once we’re way past empty if it’s turned up just right Music is the tool that digs out the memories of a time when fun on any night was the only priority
This is me…
(re-) Introducing David Philips Editor’s note: We found him, he found us(?), in a bar…The boss and I at The Monkey Wrench in Louisville…and we were still strangers in town then, come to crash some Fest…and the bar’s cable wasn’t working and Game of Thrones was coming on and this […]
October is a Challenged Sun
by Ashley Beth October is a challenged sun Embalmed in misty fog But it’s colors overcome Oh how the death cycle Feels so much like the rinse cycle Our time harvested Our efforts picked Folks reborn to better health Folks beginning to get sick The flu loves the […]
Duke Ellington Blue -Story of a Soldier
by Saira Viola art by Joey Feldman The lines on his face were etched with Rum His eyes drooped down, they were battered folds of red And veined with the purple fist of poverty He had a 24 hour vacant look about him said he was OPEN to all offers […]
Fabulously Eloquent and Heartbreaking
by Donnie Casto II “To err against those that have our best interest at heart is unimaginable.” – Brandy Sosby Puckett “I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the bed, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. I wasn’t looking for or even interested in […]
Inspiration via Family History
by C.A. Seller To merely say that Ron Whitehead is an author, activist, musician, publisher, producer, editor, poet bar none with 40 cd and audio recordings such as “Tapping My Own Phone,” and even an actor, is an understatement. He has written 30 books, most notably “I Will Not Bow […]
‘AND SO WE SWIM’
by Mason Crow Smiling crescent in the Blacken’d Eventide Swimming like a smile turned grimace On the jaded spin of a boot-heel Dizzy with stories of yesteryear How you hang there in your Glory Only visible because of reflection A corona envisioned about you might bring snow I freakin’ hope […]
American Dreaming
by Chet A. Oliver time clocks alarm clocks clocks and camera tick tock, bells ringing staring down from their mechanical perch pointing single hand mockery laughing at your rueful obedience of laws written in the will of power of consumerism commercialism, materialism industrialism capitalism, conservatism of executive orders, war, drone […]
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