Happy New Year.
So. 2020 is behind us, and what are we going to do about it? Normally, I would be focusing right now on this issue of EAP, and indeed, there is much to delve into here. I’d start, if I were you, with Rose Jermusyk’s “The Lion in Love,” which is my idea of a perfect fairy tale. And “Mr. Saturn,” an excerpt from a hilarious novel by T.C. Eisele. There’s also “Rosebud,” a poem by David Selzer, that socks it to Rupert Murdoch, and who wouldn’t be happy with that? There’s Brian Griffith’s excerpt from Mother Persia, “The Forced Unveiling.” Oh, gosh, I could go on. So I will.
For good cheer, have a look at “A Subway Musician,” by John Grey. For subtle hilarity, “Himmler’s Last Blasphemy,” by Sean Murphy. And for you lovers of dogs and the afterlife, my own “Spot,” a chapter from a book I’m fooling around with: “My Life With Dogs.”
But back to what I was getting at before. May we look forward now? Things are different than they were this time last year, and how. In the opinion of EAP, they have changed forever, in ways yet TBD. How changed? That’s what EAP wants to know.
Where will our Desire Path take us next?
Here is the call out for pieces charting potential ways. Hawthorn Wright, I’m looking at you. Bruce E. R. Thompson? Tamra Lucid? Ronnie Pontiac? Brian Griffith? Sean Murphy? And what about fairy tales for the future? You tale tellers know who you are. You poets are working on tht already, I know.
Next issue is the IMPERFECT WORLD ORDER issue. Okay, whatever it’s going to be is going to be imperfect by definition. We don’t want perfect. That’s the end of things. But we want a better quality imperfect than what has gone before.
What do you have to say about that? Get going and say it, please.
And welcome back.