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Green Leaves & Yellow Flowers

    Green Leaves & Yellow Flowers

ERIC CHAET (originally posted at 100 Peculiarly Useful So-Called Poems) Green leaves & yellow flowers pave my way thru the Milky Way. Green leaves & yellow flowers pave my way. Grey

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Walking Among the Fires of Hell

    Walking Among the Fires of Hell

DONALD O’DONOVAN (excerpt from the novel Orgasmo, posted with permission from the author) “As I was walking among the fires of hell…”  A hot Santa Ana wind blowing in from the

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Local Man for Governor

    Local Man for Governor

DOUG DRAIME Someone remarked that he looked a lot like Hugh Hefner. But to me he looked a lot like Bank of America with a white sheet over his head

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In the Prophetic Essence of Visionary Courage, John Bennett Challenges & Incites with the Birth of Road Rage

    In the Prophetic Essence of Visionary Courage, John Bennett Challenges & Incites with the Birth of Road Rage

ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE Los Angeles One of my favorite things to do these days is make a strong cup of coffee and read John Bennett’s The Birth of Road Rage. I’ll never

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Jamming

JOHN BENNETT (originally distributed through Bennett’s email list) Three people showed up at my door last night with a tuba

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Waiting Mortuaries

    Waiting Mortuaries

JOHN BENNETT (originally distributed through John Bennett’s email list) He made some contingency plans, in case he died slowly, in

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Duke Before Dishonor

    Duke Before Dishonor

BRADLEY MASON HAMLIN Listening to Duke Ellington makes me realize I should forgive my woman everything all the time because

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Ferocity

    Ferocity

ERIC CHAET I must respect ferocity else it might dismantle me— but I don’t have to admire it— I oppose

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Nothing to Be Gained

    Nothing to Be Gained

JOHN BENNETT There’s nothing to be gained from memories. Nothing to be gained from making plans. Nothing to be gained

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Falling Leaves

    Falling Leaves

JOHN BENNETT (originally posted to Bennett’s Shard email list; re-posted with permission) Fall came, but the leaves didn’t change color or fall from the trees, and soon out-of-work yard boys and gardeners

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