Issue 15, January/February 1998
Ray Heinrich - Poem
becoming a writer
i read in the paper that
this mom from idaho
has three kids
and colon cancer
now congress has health insurance
and the insurance company lobbyists have it
but it's just her luck
she works at k-mart
and never had the chance
raising three kids on her own
to find out
before she started bleeding
hurting
before it had gone too far
but don't cry yet
there's a happy ending here
she's becoming a writer
and with her six months to a year
she's writing letters to her kids
one for each week of their lives
she's got her oldest
all the way to the prom
tells her how beautiful she looks
plans to get the others there as well
and maybe more
depending
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Table of Contents
Editor's Desk
- Melissa Hill
- * Mystery
* Two Weeks: Parts 5 and 6
- Gerard Wozek
- * A Time When Hunted Things Are Safe
* The Imp
- Michael Billard
- * Untitled
* Slipping Past
* On Hearing the Military...
- Alex Pilling
- * Shifting Dimensions
* Sacred Duty
- Liz Haight
- * Rockwell Dinner Grace
* Autumn Letter
- Chuck deVarennes
- * Sunday School Lessons
- Mike Barney
- * Singing the Silence
* Reply to the Unctious Vegan
- Perry Sams
- * Bongo Coast
- Joe Kenny
- * Under Load
- Dancing Bear
- * The Memories Hide
- Ray Heinrich
- * becoming a writer
- Karen Wurl
- * Third World Weekend
* Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred...
* The Existence of Angels
- Robin Sommo
- * Perfume
- Timothy Clark
- * Kisses
- Scott Murphy
- * Stalin, Dying
* Interrogation
* Slide
- Fanny-Min Becker
- * going
- Caron Andregg
- * The Theorems of Desire
* The Late Shift
* It's been ten years
- Perry Thompson
- * Droppin' Acid with the Devil
* Were the Children Also Wicked
- Michael Hoerman
- * Eight Hour Pass
- William Burns
- * The Wire Hydra...
* Davida and the Mental Giant
- Joy Reid
- * Cape Conran
* My Claim
- Philip Havey
- * Blaise Cendrars
- Ben Ohmart
- * Lace Colored Dandies
- Stephen Pain
- * We could walk...
* Really
- Dave Sloan
- * The Weight
* Dead Monkey Grows Cooler
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