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ANDREA M. FORBING-MAGLIONEMalina Watching the neon green dress under the black light, my mind is stuck in the polyester fibers. The contrast between fluorescent fabric and sienna skin is stark, mesmerizing my nose takes refuge in the heavy rose-scented body spray. I stick another dollar into the welcoming chasm that is her breast and I get what I came here for. I don't know where she goes home to, nor do I care I don't ask her about her children or the weather or sports I'm spared the idle chitchat of that sort She doesn't pretend to listen or cook me dinner or wash my clothes. She doesn't give me a new tie every year for my birthday, nor does she know how it feels when I come inside her. I don't even know her name nor does she know mine. She doesn't want me to do anything for her. No expectations creep from beneath the amber of her eyes I find no disappointment dwelling there. Her thick dark hair tickles my chin. I welcome her warm flesh fresh from the tanning bed-- still warm to the touch. Doesn't she know that those UV Rays might kill her someday? c2004 ANDREA M. FORBING-MAGLIONE |
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CVETKA JOSAR MATICMy Grandma There she is - lying - bedridden, trapped between the sheets - my grandma. Her face grey and wrinkled, her hair like ashes, her trembling hands - trying to explain something. "My worst fear" - her eyes are like fire - "my worst fear has come true", she utters feebly. Yes, now I know. Yes, now I do recall, her words many years ago. "I do not want anyone to take care of me, I do not want to be anybody's burden. I hope I'll die before it comes to it." I smile at her, combing her unruly, ash-like hair while she looks at me. Oh, that warm look of hers! She does not fight any more. She has accepted that last stage, the stage of her spirit being a prisoner of her lifeless body. There she is - lying in her bed, her warmth melting away the icy whiteness of her prison. I think she teaches me the last bitter lesson, of how to be a human until your last day. c2004 CVETKA JOSAR MATIC |
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JAN THEUNINCK Tyne Cot when you left for the front you were living heroes and now you're on top of the hill where only poppies blow.......... c2004 JAN THEUNINCK |
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CHRISTOPHER BARNESPower Station Poltergiest For all that, the milliseconds evaporated in smog below cathode-ray tubes. Zglinki's drawbridge turned steam, atom-smashing and a floppy sunset glistened the tall gilt-headed cooper. And you would have telexed that I'd fermented in cracked pots, distributed a plutonium brew. Two gobs of atomic split seconds cannot dint. The globe is a timespace, critical mass with trembling sea air. Eaglets flighty on tiptoes point to electrodes from which shiftings I couldn't gamble and as he blinked away from me with unperceiving eyes he shrieked into the hood of death. We were at the graveyard's alpha emitter, under a three ton cloud, sited in the past. The downcurrent ran out, gamma rays stilled as we retreated. As blue-bolt bang as it all went off, there were the conductors, the powerhouse hum, the volts, all that matters of the nuclear plant. c2004 CHRISTOPHER BARNES |
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JAN THEUNINCK, self-proclaimed artist for peace, justice and civil liberties, was born in Belgium in 1954 where he lives and works as painter and poet; autodidact, he is an abstract artist, active in different substyles; most of his work and poetry are based on his social and political convictions; considered a lone crusader, he is building alliances for a new society . c2004 background |
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