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Poetry 91

Colin Dodds: The Labyrinth in the Third Millennium

February 5, 2015 by PBQ

Look at the world and consider its plans for you. Lost is the best you could hope to be. The middle of a darkened wood Is all you should expect of good. Everyone says help me. But you aren’t supposed to take it literally. The nightmare’s purpose Is to hide the actual nightmare. You have […]

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Kevin Dobbs: Desert Zombies of Doha

February 5, 2015 by PBQ

133 Fahrenheit just outside My office window—people do live Out there, and if they stay outside Long enough, the over-heated fluid Just under their skulls will kill them, At the very best erase cells. People, Born here, all have simmered Frontal lobes, making them Desert Zombies. The filmy look in their eyes is Unmistakable. They’re […]

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Jim Cory: Excerpts from 777

February 5, 2015 by PBQ

(86) dream last night new job involves meeting & greeting historic personages (Bismark, Benjamin Britten, et al) meanwhile wearing only this miniskirt of white paper towels (101) the cabal: thought they were all against me so I acted like they were all against me & then they were all against me

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Grant Clauser: At the Occult Flea Market and     Used Book Emporium

February 5, 2015 by PBQ

Every bargain is deceiving—     the cost of trinkets hidden in the fingerprints     of those who held them last, pins abandoned in the second-hand voodoo doll           the way comets leave a trail of shrapnel                 suspended in their wake     or Spock, exposed to radiation           in the Wrath of Khan                 can’t touch his friend goodbye

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Michael Derrick Hudson writing as Yin-Fen Chou: Walking Home from the Redwood Inn    and Making Excuses for Still Living in Fort Wayne, Indiana

February 5, 2015 by PBQ

So here’s to all those pretty waitresses you’d break up over who don’t really want to be waitresses. You inchling! I over-tip three soggy dollars and some silver and you’d think I’d screwed an archduke’s monocle into my watery left squint, slapped my thigh with an ivory walking stick and strode forth in jodhpurs from […]

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A.D. Carswell: The King and I

February 5, 2015 by PBQ

You got me all shook up, baby he says, leaning resplendent in sex and rhinestones against a fastidiously clean countertop, next to a blissfully burned out and overall dull husband. Book him a room at the Heartbreak Hotel I listen, while eating a hunka, hunka burned toast, eyes trained on twitching hips that escape spousal […]

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