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all you cops
who beat down
the Occupy
protesters
all over America
with yr billy-clubs
cuffed them and
pepper-spayed them
in the eyes:
I want to thank you
for reminding us all
what a bunch
of thugs and goons
most cops are
showing
the taxpayers
what their money
goes for:
the next time
I eat pork chops
or fried bacon strips
I'll be thinking
of all you pigs in blue.

-by Ross Vassilev













Ross Vassilev is a born loser and a poet. He's originally from Bulgaria but now lives in a small town in Ohio where he eats rotten eggs for breakfast and spends every day watching lezzie videos and other fine entertainment. You can read more of his poems at http://rossvassilevpoet.blogspot.com/.
                                                                                                           
Painting Courtesy:  Francesco Garieri

Francesco Garieri was born in Italy in 1958. He is a self-taught painter and currently living in France. he did his exhibitions all over the world. He is also associated with the art in the streets.            


                                                                                                                                                                                 

Gary Cummiskey

      © Gary Cummiskey


Watched/watching

We were being watched by the people on the boat. We were doing things. We were sticking our fingers in each other’s brains. They were watching us as we watched the samurai on horseback race along the shore.


Intimate lives

It is an evening in September.
You are typing 
in the next room.
The cat slips out of the window as
the horse slips in.
Soon the details of our intimate lives 
will be pasted on 
billboards 
throughout the city.


-by Gary Cummiskey


Art Courtesy: 'Mirror of Xtasy' by Gary Cummiskey

Gary Cummiskey lives in Johannesburg. He is a poet, writer and publisher. He has had several chapbooks of poetry published over the past 20 years. His short fiction collection Off-ramp has been nominated for the Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award 2014.

Don’t Fuck With Jesus Or He Might Fuck With You

Growing up I had a pal

called Shorty, he thought

he was a bad motherfucker

Shorty was never without

a pistol tucked in his pants,

one day his lady caught him

cheating on her with a floozy

She kicked him in the nuts

so hard his gun fired, blowing

off most of his pecker

She grabbed the bloody sausage,

stomped on it & gave it burial at

sea, flushing it down the toilet

That’s how Jesus lost his name

I told him look on the bright side,

Shorty is better than Stumpy.

-by Catfish McDaris

                       

                                           

Catfish McDaris has been active in the small press wold for 25 years. He lives in a cave at a nudist colony. His biggest seller is Prying: with Jack Micheline & Charles Bukowski. He has only 7 toes.

                                                                                                                                                                    
Painting Courtesy: John Graham 

John Graham  is an australian artist and cartoonist.

John Yamrus

The apartment

had

no heat,

no hot water

and no back door.

to

make it

interesting

two strippers

lived upstairs,

the problem was

they were nice girls.

broke,

just like us.

we ate

boiled noodles

and

very little else.

the

poems

came hard.

-by John Yamrus

Since 1970 John Yamrus has published 22 volumes of poetry and 2 novels.  He has also had nearly 1,700 poems published in magazines around the world.  His work is taught in numerous colleges and universities and been translated into a number of languages.  His most recent full length collection of poetry is ALCHEMY.  It's available on Amazon.  More information on John and his writing can be found at http://www.johnyamrus.com/index.html

Art Courtesy: Janne Karlsson

Janne Karlsson is a wildly prolific Swedish illustrator and writer.