Poetry of Issue #4                        Page 47
Table of Contents	Ablution Annoyance Number 1                        My new toothbrush is a name brand.                     Cost roughly the same as my last one,                        But the new dental tool is spindly,                              Has a narrow brush head.                            I can’t fit sufficient paste on it                            To make my choppers gleam.                       Bad enough it’s girly-pink and white.                                Featherweight─a toy.                       No match for my decades-old teeth.           I abhor wielding a Lilliputian dental implement                            In my Brobdingnagian hand.                       I demand a toothbrush with gravitas.                     Iris N. Schwartz __	Alpha Intrusion               I think          All the time.       The sleep study          Confirms it:       Wave upon wave Of daytime thoughts               Rock me       Awake at night.       My rational mind          Cradles me          Not at all.          More proof?          I penned this Poem in my sleep.         Iris N. Schwartz__	4 U your island refused me, tho I      pray for it, your dancers       now in darkness, your musicians, inaccesible, yr. poets       roam w. love oozing fr.         their toenails but they can't find their way to      favorite cafe, their         time is UP. yr. island has been dessicated, was        it my fault, did I drop those         bombs, or create the so called earthquake, 100, 000      times more powerful & more         lethal.,Thorough whose    disgrace did I come to you,? Last night cured in a cafe by distant         saint, he says I'll siphon out         the poison & he does,         pain & perjury, poison           is my medicine as          purified, I hit the road again,         throwing pennies to t yr.            outstretched hand            rest a moment, tI say,           he sun has risen, in                yr.                     3rd eye,         Louise Landes Levi__