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The Blight To Bear Arms

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What shall comfort us creatures and offer salve to our sorrow now? Never those pubescent-speaking military men who merely glance in lieu of glaring. Never those revolting, crippling contrivances that never set eyes on spirits on solid ground, nor infantries, trust- worthy, uninformed in uniforms; infectiously inexperienced. Corruption begets corruptions, atrocity reciprocates atrocity.   What prevailing evil winds & complicitous joining of forces might accomplish, alleviating the Read more [...]

Shakespeare’s Bile

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There are some days when more strength is needed than others and today is one of those days.   I do not know why it happens but sometimes I awaken and feel that Hell is at the cusp of my bed,   And if I step too hastily I shall fall for millions of miles into the mouth of the nether-gods.   So I tiptoe around it. I stand and I stretch as though I have the limbs of a giant.   Yes, of a giant—but I shall need those limbs today, because today is one of those days.   I Read more [...]

Poetry

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When armed with an arsenal

Of ideas bigger than bombs

And words that are piercing as arrows

Quivering

With swelling anticipation

Like the tide, it crests

 

When faced with a blank white page

You wait for the explosion

The crash of the ocean wave

It destroys the castles you have built

But you call it

Creation.

 

—Emily Faison

Craig McCarthy

guest author, poetry

every night the moon slurs, smiles leering compliance, consenting out of the corner of her face. at midnight, I am less, after just one more test.   regretted by the bashful sun, at midday, his light lets learning in from a drunk, swallowing sex — drinking down below all morals, creating cause, causing effect, from all unwritten words, learned, taught, spoken, now unlearned, in the lush lavished unloved love of leaving after love. sinking in sleeping, in Read more [...]

Life Springs/Raspberry Bush

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Life Springs Sitting in a dark room breeds thoughts of the soul not to be indulged   the bliss of life lies in the simple   the penetrating sunlight pierces through the abyss   illuminating all the shadows dank dark crevices   new life springs from death to be reborn anew like a butterfly its cocoon   Raspberry Bush The raspberry bush expanding full of life seemed to offer endless tart bounty   they were Read more [...]
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