Nancy Byrne Iannucci ~ JOHN HUGHES

John Hughes               — to all the Neo Maxi Zoom Dweebies It’s February 18, 2025, John Hughes’s birthday. Altered Images is singing in my head. The fact that he’s dead doesn’t stop me from celebrating the birth of this man,  the man who understood us: The Xers, Gen X, latchkey kids. He was the Nicholas Ray […]

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Over-Steeped ~ Elizabeth Birch

Over-Steeped Morning calm spills down my throat, an antidote to replace jitters of coffee, aspartame of Diet Coke. Keep me awake on this morning, every morning, when sleep pulls like a lover  from an unmade bed, and let me continue  work that feels more important than me while disease leaks life from my neighbors and missiles fall  around […]

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5 poems by DS Maolalai

Down 45/50 down, depending on builder quotes. jesus: I could live for two years if I’m careful and have a divorce. but instead it’s two bedrooms in a square by the courts and disused market buildings all listed and tumbling down. and we can afford it and still go on holidays two times a year […]

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