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Out Front of the Situation Room.

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by C. S. Kraszewski.

 

Was it 4.54 billion
Or only five thousand, seven hundred seventy five years ago
This world was created
In trumpet-peals of light?
Let’s assume the earlier date.
It puts that scratch on your new car
In better perspective.

Still hungry for news?
When I return home to her after my morning run
The mastiff spins around wildly
On her own axis,
Disappearing in a tawny blur
Of pure happiness
Powerful enough
To knock out the power grid.

As the lights flicker and die
The irrelevant, stiff-coiffed talking heads
In their svelte Ermengildo Zegna suits
And discreetly scented Kate Spade sleeveless
Flounce fit-and-flares
Stumble out front of the situation room
Helpless and shivering
Beneath the ancient light
Of the distant stars.

 

 

The People’s Heroes of Romantic Liberty.

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by Brian Griffith. As my wife’s Iranian culture is commonly reputed to be dour and puritanically moralistic, I was glad to learn that this country has long provided perhaps the world’s most enthusiastic audience for fine erotic poetry. And although Muslim clerics typically insist that this vast poetic literature concerns love for God rather than […]

A Sufi Parable of Dubious Origin.

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by Ronnie Pontiac. dedicated to William Dailey   Manuscript K-1204 supplied by a private collector requesting appraisal. After careful study I fear no conclusive judgment can be rendered. The collector claims that this manuscript was found folded within a personal letter from Paul Bowles to Alain Daniélou. I can find no record of any contact […]

Loaded Pistols.

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by David D. Horowitz.   “Who’s there?” So begins Shakespeare’s classic play Hamlet. And this simple question resonates throughout any serious ethical inquiry. Who am I—really? And who are you—or “them”? Not merely a body and some friendly conversational conventions—but also jealousy, resentment, lust, insecurity, embarrassment, and obsession that many fear acknowledging to themselves. And […]

Empire Camp.

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by Nick Engelfried. We were children of the Empire, clueless and careless, set loose to run wild in lands that were not our own. That’s how all the craziness started. There were three of us, in Brandon’s beat-up car (you remember Brandon, my old college roommate?). Brandon drove and I rode shotgun. Teresa was in […]

Letter To An Imaginary Father (excerpts).

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by Ben White.   XIII   Your choices And subsequent directions Have made you An imaginary figure – A figment Represented by Absence – But that’s all I might have ever been To you as well, So in the voids Of any relationship It’s hard to tell. I was merely a by-product On your way […]

#59.

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by Chris Farago.   find a worthy cause and become its poet you are now the voice of Ukrainian independence, of bowel cancer, of pedestrian safety   write with gravitas, wear double-breasted suits, and enunciate, enunciate, enunciate!   take solace in your solitude, for yours is a rarefied air; remember to mention john lennon in […]

The Snake At Home.

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by Rose Jermusyk. She was taught not to love the snake. She was taught to keep her distance. But what is taught and what is learned are often not the same thing. She learned to ponder the snake. She learned to watch from a distance. Until she learned that a snake can be kept in […]

LOVE.

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by David D. Horowitz. Sit, stay, good human. I know my litter box—or, excuse me, your litter box, which you so generously offer me—contains a mess. And though I concealed the mess, well, there’s still an odor. And I understand this week I ripped stuffing from the velvet, square-armed upholstered chair you love, when you’ve […]

On the Morality of Eating Green Eggs and Ham.

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by Bruce Thompson. Plato has Socrates ask the question, “Is it pious because the gods like it, or do the gods like it because it is pious?” (Plato, Euthyphro) The theory that God’s will is the source of moral rules—that actions are right solely because God commands them and wrong solely because God forbids them—is […]