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Fiction & Poetry

Aladdin’s Lamp

    Aladdin’s Lamp

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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Bukowski’s Bones

    Bukowski’s Bones

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

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What We Have To Get By On

    What We Have To Get By On

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.

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Crimewriter

    Crimewriter

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

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His Business & Mine

ERIC CHAET(originally posted at 100 Peculiarly Useful So-Called Poems) Guy at the diner a better than average comedian who made

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Puppet Dance

    Puppet Dance

JOHN BENNETT (spawned by Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story) Look beyond the obvious for the answers.Look past the dreams of your

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April In South Sacramento

BRADLEY MASON HAMLIN Listening to Nat King Cole on a beat up jazz piano record sipping vodka-rum on ice wondering

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The State of the Nation

JOHN BENNETT   photo by Jonathan McIntosh Some window  cleaning accounts  that don’t  pay:  AT&T  Verizon  Fred Meyer.  When I  ran

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63rd Street & Beyond

    63rd Street & Beyond

ERIC CHAET 1960, I had a summer job at the University of Chicago.  I was 15, probably about 90 pounds,

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Independence Dependence

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.

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