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Desolation by Patrick O’Neil
"Hi, welcome to Taco Bell. Hope you're having a nice day," said the girl standing behind the counter. Her monotone voice so void of emotion it could have been computerized.
"Define nice," I answered, and looked around at all the colored plastic and brushed aluminum and wondered why this was what fast food [...]
A Poem for the Future Generation by Jeremy Quintero
I hope I can watch you grow up to be just like your dad // you can
rank above the both of us, he Kahuna // I maka’ainana
I will put your head in stars blessed, turn/twist/shine/spin
Mana in your palms // a prayer for those dying to manifest into those unborn
Kapu flows from veins unseen, the distance [...]
Why Not Fly By Michael Onofrey
He bought the bicycle in Amritsar midst midday heat weighing in at forty-seven degrees centigrade, a hundred-sixteen degrees Fahrenheit. Equipped with canvas saddlebags he set off. He carried Pepsi-Cola, he carried chapatti, he carried peanuts. He about
Selections from When the Catfish Are In Bloom: Requiem for John Fahey by Ed Frankel
Born in 1939 in Maryland, John Fahey pioneered the use of traditional country and blues finger picking to showcase the acoustic steel string guitar as a solo instrument that could play a mix of traditional and non-traditional musical genres. He collaged ideas associated with Bartok, Charles Ives, Indian and Gamelan
Chalk It Up To Love by Ed Frankel
And then, hooked up to tubes and oxygen,
She was screaming, catch me Joey, I’m falling!
I picked her up, the heft and weight
Of rabbit bones wrapped in silk,
I’ve got you Rose I’ve got you.