Poetry of Issue # 65                        Page 1
About Us Subscribe FAQ Guidelines Links Contact Us page 2 page 3 page 4 Page 5	GET DOWN TO EARTH To make a leech let go you burn a match at one end of him or her for ticks you might take a chance and pull because you would probably burn the dog or cat if you tried matches I had a tick fastened to my head once and I pulled it off and dug a little hole in my scafp because I didn't want its head left behind to fester. Fleas don't bite me unless they have nothing else to work on. I never crossed paths with a bedbug. But I did have cooties once as a child and some of the kids In school with me at the time had ringworm shaved their heads and wore caps It is a wonder we're alive being less than the top of the food chain Just think of viruses and bacteria not to mention mosquitos and vampire bats and black flies and body crabs and fungi and yeast infections Another thing People don't usually talk about their parasites unless they're speaking of their children or their spouses as in "Get outa here and get me some money, too. We're ashamed of these other guys the leeches the ticks the lice especially and vermin such as rats competitors like roaches Solutions? We could concentrate on exterminating riffraff bugs instead of people we could spend more time grooming each other the way Lucy and those other long ago humanoids did Give each other solace for pete's sake                                Shirley Powell _________________________	BREAKFAST CAFE acoustics...a space a morning space... winter coats... and the usual suspects on chairs... a cold canine outside... inside I can't breathe... it's not the oxygen something else... the subconscious... meanders against the window... profusion of plastic knives and forks up front... we will rise again and eradicate the dictator- all the dictators at the right moment with a final urgency with the same plastic forks and knives... let's not forget the spoon... that's right...stir the coffee. slow... with one hand.                       Tom Farbman _________________________ A CORNER OF THE CHILDEN'S HOSPITAL: weeds cellophane cigarette butts burnt matches styrofoam holly leaves moss twigs rocks & one lone dandelion asserting its alive Yellowness                       Dave Roskos _________________________________	QUESTIONS AT 3 AM Like a dream a different town an old area code you come into my head into my bed all alone holding you that mystic truth                        I mean some things remain stay with you forever is it the origin of our fears the accumulation of ghosts the reasons for repentance what is it what happens what is the fact of it science says scent is the strongest memory it's not that easy I remember reading your mind in the immediate act of sharp fast clear flash the day you left me forever in the midst of spring snow lake effect fades only slightly around dawn flares when least expected for no reason                       Gregg Weatherby ______________________________________________________________ OF ROCKS AND BEING ON THEM It is no joke. they are serious matter. An extreme case of Being. Awareness of rocks is needed. Note: the air provides a base for them to crag from, as upside-down, the sky ends on their clangor, Hard to describe, are rocks.                        Ruth Moon Kempher ____________________________