NEWSIE ~ Tom Pennacchini

Newsie He would come to the door ever so slowDeep into dotage and well past prime timeI waited amid discomforts shadeEager to collect and be on… I liked the design of my routeAll customers were conveniently located next to each exceptfor one lone house down the street a ways which was a drag on Sunday […]

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BOB MCNEIL – Metered Billing

Metered Billing Even the moon rues  its union with the Earth. Inch by inch,  at the rate of a fingernail’s growth, it’s creating ways to glide away the same way we would when someone sneezes  around our space.  But can you find that object’s decision objectionable?   It gave us turning tides, romantic nights,  mythos, poems,  […]

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COST OF LIFE ~ JAYNA MARKS

Cost of life I live life at a costThat don’t nobody wanna paythe debt collector comeCause everybody got they dayThey probably find a cure to deathOne the 32nd of MayI could never rest in peaceMicheal said that heaven can wait aint y’all seeing all of this shit going onIts too realCant you see the shit […]

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2 election poems ~ Tim Staley

2024 Election Poem I’m just writing this poem instead of eating highlighters, chewing gum foil, raisins, or Sylvia’s halloween candy. This afternoon I wrote “environment”, “change”, and “open border” on a piece of scratch paper in a column labeled BIG. I wrote in pen so it’s permanent. Most Americans vote for their team, despite this […]

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