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  1. Wizened by Henry O. Puma

    December 15, 2011

    three faces rolling down the hill

    negative imagery, big sticks, wild geese –

    a world once green thus gravitational

    brevity gone soft on the duality

    fierce worlds come to impose their will

    the end — the beginning

    Write Henry at henryopuma@gmail.com

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  2. WE, THE INSTITUTIONALIZED by Joseph Goosey

    December 9, 2011

    This poem is an excerpt from an e-book of the same name.

    Lilacs make for half-decent dildos

    and for those of y’all who can’t seem to ever get truly alone –

    the internet is an exquisitely barren place on major holidays.

    I’m there right now and would highly recommend it

    just as I would visiting Disneyland

    during a terror attack or maybe a cyclone.

    Cyclones were what the West coast had in place of hurricanes

    but I’d swear they’re imaginary vehicles

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  3. More Light by Philip Hoyle

    November 26, 2011

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    There are days
    when I don’t want to believe
    in truth anymore
    because
    the truth is
    we are all
    on drugs

    There is no fruit
    and the tree has died

    Babylon, your days are numbered

    The truth is
    we’re all sick
    and we’re all crazy
    from the top
    to the bottom

    We can dream
    and live in our heads
    and plan and plot
    our great exploits to come

    “The light shines in the darkness
    and the darkness can never extinguish”

     

    Philip Hoyle is a rover of the occupation movement. He’s presently on the move to DC.

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  4. Ads by Quincy Roads

    September 23, 2011

    I set down the mail on the hall table and there she was. An ex of mine, her pouty face was printed on a postcard advertising the school cafeteria. Don’t go hungry, it said, buy a meal plan today. There was a twinge of regret as I walked to the kitchen. Then I tossed the postcard with the rest of the mail into the trash.

    The next morning I logged onto the internet and there she was. Again. But now her face was in the sidebar of the online paper. This time her frown was advertising a local attorney, the kind that pursued workman’s comp suits. I closed out of the website and went for some coffee. I had made it a point to avoid my ex since the breakup, but as of late this seemed to be more difficult to do.

    I was confounded when I saw her face in traffic on my way home from work the next day. Her face was fourteen feet tall and plastered across a billboard for the local technical college. She was smiling while cutting an attractive man’s hair. She doesn’t even go to a technical school, I thought. In fact, for the entire six months that we dated, she never even considered modeling, let alone advertisements.

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