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Fiction & Poetry

Gambling

ERIC CHAET (originally posted at 100 Peculiarly Useful So-Called Poems) 50 years ago I played poker all one night & won 33 cents— basement of Fred Graske’s house pool table

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Versus Futility

ERIC CHAET (originally posted at 100 Peculiarly Useful So-Called Poems) Some see how what nearly everyone is doing comes to nothing & leaves a trail of destruction & suffering, too— &

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Feng Shui This

    Feng Shui This

DONALD O’DONOVAN (excerpt Orgasmo, find the book here) Brunsvigga is here with us now, one of the androgynous doyennes of the night, a hulking lesbian with muscles of steel and a

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You Wouldn’t Know It By Looking At Me

ERIC CHAET (originally posted at 100 Peculiarly Useful So-Called Poems) You wouldn’t know it by looking at me but I’m Beethoven, Napoleon, Confucius, George Washington you wouldn’t know it by

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And Death Shall Have No Dominion

DONALD O’DONOVAN Los Angeles (excerpt from O’Donovan’s novel Highway) Roddy Joplin was a bona fide latter day cowboy. As reckless as

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People, the World, & Life

ERIC CHAET (originally posted at 100 Peculiarly Useful So-Called Poems) People are often stupid & cruel in petty ways or

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All Right, I’ll Sustain This Great Adventure

ERIC CHAET   (originally posted at 100 Peculiarly Useful So-Called Poems) All right, I won’t be attended to before I

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Stalin

ERIC CHAET (originally posted at 100 Peculiarly Useful So-Called Poems) Stalin was a big boy a bully & more &

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My Wasichu Vision Quest

DONALD O’DONOVAN   (from O’Donovan’s unpublished novel, Gargantua) One day I came home from baseball practice and discovered that a

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On Job Creation

ERIC CHAET Marx considered the capitalists the vanguard party for humanity, during the period leading up to the Europe-wide failed revolutions of 1848, revolutions by what he saw as the

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