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Fall 2012 Issue, Fall 2012 Poetry January 9, 2017March 4, 2017

A Song For Your Heart To Sing

by Bertie Koller work your whole life for just one thing make it a song for your heart to sing you don’t need money & you don’t need god you

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Fall 2012 Issue, Fall 2012 Poetry January 9, 2017March 4, 2017

I took him to my hotel room

by Betta Rouse and we undressed. I was all over the man. He took to my hips and legs, kissed my toes, my legs, all the way to my pussy, and on

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Fall 2012 Issue, Fall 2012 Poetry January 9, 2017March 4, 2017

It had been raining for weeks.

by Betta Rouse Everything was very wet. The music might have been a 1940’s sound track. We might have been on the coast of Brittany. The

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Fall 2012 Issue, Fall 2012 Poetry January 9, 2017March 4, 2017

I woke in the night, heard

by Betta Rouse your pleasure, wanted you for myself, wanted your breasts, in my hands, in my face. wanted to mouth your nipples, wanted to hold

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Fall 2012 Issue, Fall 2012 Poetry January 9, 2017March 4, 2017

Easy Street

by Carl Clay Caulkins On a Sunday I came back     to my one room country shack It was late afternoon     in early Spring You sat there on the

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Fall 2012 Issue, Fall 2012 Poetry January 9, 2017March 4, 2017

Almost All She Wrote

by Carl Clay Caulkins Fare thee well, Oklahoma Buick, take me west     I’m blinded by the sun     And just like Jesse        when he was on the

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Fall 2012 Issue, Fall 2012 Poetry January 9, 2017March 4, 2017

Ain’t Life Grand?

by Carl Clay Caulkins Papa lies under the willow     and Mama lies over the sea My jack knife lies under my pillow     keeping me company Easy

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Fall 2012 Issue, Fall 2012 Poetry January 9, 2017March 4, 2017

Wishes for Butch

by Alessandro Spinazzi You have to give up drinking (for a while nothing is forever) not to be sober but to get drunk on morning breeze and have

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Fall 2012 Issue, Fall 2012 Poetry January 9, 2017March 4, 2017

Step by Step for Carlo

by Alessandro Spinazzi In the rainy dark of the evening a film in black and white except for a spectral yellow from the factories walking with

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Fall 2012 Issue, Fall 2012 Poetry January 9, 2017March 4, 2017

Right & Wrong for Paul and me, a guilty pair

by Alessandro Spinazzi Don’t worry if your wife doesn’t speak to you anymore and writes down everyday your sins like a shopping list or your kids

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