SHANE
by oscar smiles
came over today
told me how was it
told me ’bout pregnant canvases
and showed me some ooh lala pics
scars of resurrection one long spine stitch
klonopin claw NAH zeh pam
had a sweet palladium smell to it
stolen radials lots of foxes
deflated serpents and a fist bumping alias
Cramped Uptown
by Amy Temple Harper
34 ppg, Hard Cover, bound by Spork Press
Review by Travis Catsull
Cramped Uptown is the first book from Amy Temple Harper and it’s a thing of beauty and imagination. A very strange …
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Austin music veterans Night Beats, and dynamic new comers The UFO Club released a 10″ split on The Reverberation Appreciation Society record label. For those of you unfamiliar with a “split” record it simply means …
Living Unitarian Universalist
by Beth Cortez-Neavel
This is how it begins, every time: whether I am at a potluck, a club, a bar, or with extended family. Someone ultimately asks me “So, what do you do?” I …
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For fuck sake. Is this poetry?
Where are the warts?
Where is the dance?
Oscar Smiles?
Is this the literary equivalent to Buck Cherry robbing Chuck Berry?
Am I writing stanzas as a comment?
Of course I am!
I’d like to know how you came by my glamour shot. I thought my exe burned those damned things. You can keep it, just curious to know how you came by it.