Poem
Motor City is Not My Home
Emily XYZ
Motor city is not my home / but I love it just the same
Murder city, kill city ok but that’s just one way
to look at the place where so much comes from
and I know GM should have been allowed to fall but for all
the goo...
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Story
Merthiolate (and Other Futile Antiseptics)
Robert C. Hardin
Merthiolate
After failing to kill myself for the eighteenth time, I decided to be more positive. Why focus on failure? I thought. Why not appreciate the character added by damage to my once-perfect body? But despite the p...
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Story
Night Train Heading South
Christian X. Hunter
Excerpts from A Fistful Of Rupees
There is a train to Dharmavaram at 5:00 for fifty-seven rupees. That allows about fourteen minutes buy a platform ticket, retrieve my pack from left luggage, buy some food and find the trai...
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Story
That’s Entertainment – Chapter One
B. Kold
Aliens do exist, but humans should try to avoid any contact with them
- Stephen Hawking
You’re fired.
- Donald Trump
New York City: The Near Future
Vion Sandor was cold. Everybody else on line was cold too, but th...
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Essay
Dennis Hopper – Outlaw Artist
Bernard Meisler
I've wanted to pay tribute to the great Dennis Hopper, one of my all-time outlaw artist heroes, since he passed May 29th. I'm not gonna say much, but I'll pass along a few tidbits of info that perhaps you weren't familiar ...
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Tuli Kupferberg, RIP
The Editors
Another great shuffles off this mortal coil. Here's a gem from the '60s.
https://youtu.be/2mQJSxX5sGg
Tuli would sometimes (a lot?) show up at the Unbearables readings. I remember him singing "Slum Goddess" like it w...
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Classics
Georges Bataille : Literature And Evil
The Editors
This is a fascinating interview with Georges Batailles from 1958, regarding his essay, La Littérature et le Mal (hat tip, Rob Hardin). Some of the high points include the statements that all literature is essentially evil, ...
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Classics
Charles Bukowski – The Night I Killed Tommy
Charles Bukowski
Everyone in NY is dying of heat; everyone in SF is complaining that it's too damn cold. I don't know, it just feels like one of those Charles Bukowski days...
This one's called, "The Night I Killed Tommy". The video's old...
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Dan Plonsey’s Bar Mitzvah
Bernard Meisler
Dan Plonsey is a multi-talented composer and instrumentalist living in El Cerrito CA since 1978. He has written more than 200 works for large and small ensembles. His latest piece, Dan Plonsey's Bar Mitzvah, will have its wo...
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Poem
Emily XYZ & Myers Bartlett – Frank Sinatra
Emily XYZ
We'll be presenting a poem from Emily XYZ in issue 2. In the meantime, enjoy this piece, "Frank Sinatra," from Emily and Myers Bartlett, performed at the Cornelia Street Cafe in New York City, November 14, 2008.
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Review
Banksy’s Movie
Mark Netter
Even though he doesn't take a directing credit on it, there's no doubt that Exit Through the Gift Shop is Banksy's movie. Banksy is the English street artist who has stenciled, painted, graffitied or, if you like, vandalized...
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Downtown from the Avenue of the Americas
Jose Padua
I am not the Avenue of the Americas;
I have never been topless at Billy's Topless—
no one in Manhattan ever called the Avenue of the Americas
the Avenue of the Americas we called it Sixth Avenue.
https://youtu.be...
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The Peoples College
Drew Hubner
#1-The Vet
I sell nickel bags
Pretty good weed sure
Comes in bricks from Mexico
Ive seen the whole operation
The trucks
The safe house up on Walton Ave
We went down to Manhattan to the city to party and goof around b...
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Story
Uranium City Return
Tim Beckett
An excerpt from the novel "Uranium City Return"
At the end of the road, an airstrip appears, as unexpected as a landing pad for aliens. Instinctively, I look for the Eldorado Mine and the company town of Eldorado that str...
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Story
Beer Mystic: A Novel of Inebriation & Light
bart plantenga
Beer Mystic Excerpt #12 - Jack Magazine
David Sandlin
Furman Pivo believes he [plus beer] may be the cause of a rash of streetlight outages. This sense of empowerment transforms him into the Beer Mystic. He...
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