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East Bank
Poetry
ONE
HAIKU
by
Rick Rockwell
The groom from Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire, famous
comedian, and ex-husband of that tramp Darva Conger sums it all up in
17 syllables. Well, 18. But who's counting?
FOUR RANTS FROM THE UGLY SISTER
by
Coleman Hough
These monoglues take us on the strange trip we must all go through—pubic
hair, waist size, and the little man downstairs.
FETCH
by Dickson
Musslewhite
Just
another canine take on the domestic front, or a re-assessment of Joyce's
supposed 'legacy'? You decide.
GOOD
FOR NOTHING
by
Mark Budman
Some
times a big, thick gun in your mouth is just a big, thick, wide, fully
loaded, cocked gun in your mouth.
NOTES
by James Sallis
We wonder what was the script to this subscript. An heir to Pale
Fire comes across as purely point-by-point. Know why? Cos it is.
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W I N T E R 2 0 0 0 I S S U E 5
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FIRE
STARTER AND
AEGISTHUS AFTER/SOME DEFINITIONS
Two poems
from Stuart Lishan
RAW
AND UNDRESSED + TWO
by Meghan
Cleary
Whew. Like water for chocolate, this trio of lyrics takes our clothes
off, feeds us, and 'smooths us down.'
LETS
DANCE + THREE MORE
by
Michael Farrell
A
voice from Australia teaches us not to trust our eyes and urges to be
very nice.
Well, in a way.
HOW
COLD IS IT + TWO MORE
by
Carley Moore
Take
a look-see.
Poems we wouldn't take home to visit your mother.
THREE
POEMS, ONE WITH BATMAN
by
Michael Broder
, whose take on a superhero surprises
us, as it will you.
DAILY
EMERGENCIES + TWO MORE
by Charles O'Hay
This issue's first ambassador from the Liberty town reminds us of the
city that always seems to sleep.
CORY
IS A FAGGOT & 37 X 1
by
Jim Cory
Our second ambassador attacks anonymity and anything that 'doesn't have
juice in the engine.'
FIVE
POEMS
by
Derek Webster
Beauty and truth, Einstein's gourd, and no attempt—repeat, none—to
find a word that rhymes with "orange." Doorhinges unite!
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