Issue 12, October 1997
Perry Thompson - Poem
May in London
Too much faith in anything will suck you dry.
In this way, all the world is a vampire.
-- Poppy Z. Brite
Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine.
-- Patti Smith
Her dark side opens in the hot, early
hours. Fevered flower. Night blooming.
Slumming Soho in the rain -- Hey bitch, got a smoke?
What you want? Black boy? White girl? Young?
Cockney from a black woman's throat.
Leaning on the lorry with thick-lip grin,
she's The Nanny Of Us All. And May should
know. Daddy bought her so many.
She turns her back on the old woman's cursing
and talks to one of the girls.
How old are you, honey? Guilt is a thorn
'round the head. Brogue this time -- I'm only 12.
She gives the child £200 while her friends
back home in Decatur can't even make $150 rent.
Waiting at the Hyatt, her handler secures
the door against the fans she hates.
When his meal ticket comes home alone and sad,
cold and stooped like an indigo blossom in the rain,
he aims to cheer her up with good ole Southern
cooking and all those rave American reviews!
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Table of Contents
Cover
Editor's Desk
- Nora-Maria Iancu
- * Childish Song II
- Liz Haight
- * A State of Despair in Thirty-Seven Minutes
- Amy Wright
- * Hunters and Gatherers
- Karen Craigo
- * Haiku, late summer (a prayer)
- Ray Heinrich
- * and by now we both have...
- Dancing Bear
- * The Cover of Her Notebook
* Requiring Closure
* Earthquake Weather
- William Burns
- * My Octopus
* The Visionary
- Spark
- * Hot Night
- Caron Andregg
- * New Orleans
* Oatmeal
- Michael Brackney
- * Autumn Dance
* Tommy From the Coast Remembered
- Perry Thompson
- * May in London
- Fanny-Min Becker
- * From My Kitchen Window (iii)
- John Carle
- * Review of Fanny-Min Becker's fleeting
Writers' Biographies
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