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   ANDREA M. FORBING-MAGLIONE
Malina


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?

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   CVETKA JOSAR MATIC
My 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. 

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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..........

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   CHRISTOPHER BARNES
Power 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.

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   background

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 .

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