Issue #14 Aug 29, 2021

Front Page

In today’s news, the president pulled his army’s troops from a
middle eastern country because their soldiers were always high

and didn’t fight like a terrorist takeover was imminent. So … Read more

Out of sight

What’s the difference between
eviction and our sad condition except
that the former gives birth to the latter?
Behind me – if I am still visible – is
the house … Read more

Haiku

Beyond the window over the kitchen sink,
the sky is glowing wildfire red
A movie trailer for the apocalypse

About the Poem

This brief poem is meant as a kind Read more

Fall of Kabul

640 bodies with only room for 150
Bodies crushed together, waiting, hoping, fearing.
Desperate
Bodies trampled in a stampede
Bodies punctured by gunshots
Bodies falling from the sky
Evacuated schools. … Read more

Cordially

I have notes someplace
from the great intellectual
conservative columnist
William F Buckley, Jr

He signed them all
Cordially
I understand that
this was not just for me
he did … Read more