ERIC CHAET (originally posted at 100 Peculiarly Useful So-Called Poems) At night, downtown is lit up, active cars on the grid at cross-purposes— clubs, drinking, laughter, mating mutual lust or, without
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BRADLEY MASON HAMLIN Poets read better when they’re alive once they’re dead their words tend to fall flat you can’t imagine them out there in the world anymore fighting the
JOHN BENNETT Men have wives, mistresses and lovers, sometimes all three, sometimes all three at once, and occasionally all three in one person, which usually leads to a psychotic meltdown and a cornucopia of pharmaceuticals.
DAN RUDY I’d never heard of the man- this famous author in the papers (now recently deceased) -though I may have seen ‘Get Shorty’ once either on a plane or
ERIC CHAET(originally posted at 100 Peculiarly Useful So-Called Poems) Guy at the diner a better than average comedian who made
JOHN BENNETT (spawned by Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story) Look beyond the obvious for the answers.Look past the dreams of your
BRADLEY MASON HAMLIN Listening to Nat King Cole on a beat up jazz piano record sipping vodka-rum on ice wondering
JOHN BENNETT photo by Jonathan McIntosh Some window cleaning accounts that don’t pay: AT&T Verizon Fred Meyer. When I ran
ERIC CHAET 1960, I had a summer job at the University of Chicago. I was 15, probably about 90 pounds,
JOHN BENNETT Four dead in O-hio. Six million dead in Cambodia. Carnage on the freeway, carnage in the coal mines, big-breasted babes singing Wagner in Carnegie Hall.