by Ajah Hales If you decide to date a white boy,You are no longer pro black.It does not matter that you were on the ground in East St. Louis,That you stood vigil for Troy and Trayvon long before Black Lives Matter? was even a questionIt does not matterThatBlack Lives Matter! was always your answerIt doesn’t […]
Moreby Nicholas Bon I want to find the way through every tunnel— us not ever stopping for gas, tires always at proper pressure, this all awash in new light. I want to shut this machine down so we can grow tomatoes in its ugly chambers. Nicholas Bon is the author of My Circus Mouth (Ghost […]
Moreby Nicholas Bon We have to accept the things we cannot change, they say. Though I guess I could overturn this desk in a fit of spontaneous ecstasy or rage or something else felt strongly. I could spin in ridiculous arcs and destroy this entire museum. Maybe scientists could coax electricity from my manic body. Maybe this […]
Moreby James P. McNamara When they built that overpass at the end, the one right before the junkyard clutter and screaming axles. They built it for the train tracks on its back, and the trains that pass over so that no truck or bus could travel below. They built the boulevard that breaks beyond sense, […]
Moreby James Cactus We will have decided to bomb the Moon. Improvised explosive devices bearing a payload of [microfiche, culture shock, and plutonium] will be delivered as soon as is possible (within reason) to the Sea of Tranquility by rabbits. A document warden will take hold of their passports and cash card. Because they cannot […]
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