Brown Grave, And Me
Phillip James Roberson(pen name: Kamara Mtengenzaji)Box No. B-27585Represa, CA 95671 The First time I ever saw Brown Gravy was back in the Summer of 1958. I was in the Los… More
Lend Us Your Ears Tax-Payers
Beloved Readers:Peering about this functionally effective concentration camp of Humanity, at the gigantic evils perpetrated against us/you as a people, A tax-paying people, by the designers of Penal Habitations… More
Night Music
Night MusicTonight in Cellblock Threesomeone is playing Mozart.Sweeter than tangerines the music risesabove the sound of all four showersby the guard stationIt is summer at the end of a… More
Of A Time Removed
Elliott C. RicehillBox 316Fort Madison, Iowa 52627 It is said that the Qahadi Comanches called thefirst Anglos they knew, los godammies, after thefirst English words they learned. In those times,Comanche… More
Where do Popsickles Go When Dey Die?
(where do popsickles go when dey die?)Or/De SunflowerOnce dere was a small-town Girl.Who used to run barefoot’ddown shoe-beaten pathsDiggin her toes into warm moist’d sandup ‘n down country roads…smilin… More
The Connection
I.In the center of Union Square a statue of the City’s Founding Father stood eternally poised as though on the brink of an invisable fronteir, dwarfed among crags of… More
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