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SOMETIMES I WISH I WAS STILL ON THE GLIDER ON THE SCREENED PORCH by Lyn Lifshin

before traffic was no
more than a soft lull
beyond the elm trees,
ice clinking in frosty
glasses, my mother
still in 4 inch heels.

1 out of 6 by by Rob Plath

bukowski said
he punched out
one great poem in
every six

those are pretty
good odds

that means you gotta
keep banging them out
shitty or not to
get to that 1 in the 6

suffering and its proximity by David Mclean

they write that our awareness of the suffering
of others is deadened by distances
and i agree, you really have to see it
for it to be funny, that's why we have
TV

The Recipe by Emme Hor

1. keep on my knees
2. look him in the eye
3. rub his ego all night
4. cook up his soul

Sometimes Suicidal by Aimee DeLong

SPIDER BITES

I am Spider.
In 1960 I learned
to crawl.
In 1940 I woke up
with spider bites.

Last Night at Southport by Justin Hyde

tell her i'm a butterfly
with sixteen wings
beating in
succinct
anarchy.

microwave popcorn haiku by Pete Lee

pop. pop. pop, pop, pop,
poppoppoppoppoppoppop
pop, pop, pop. pop. pop.

 

There I say, just not thinking when all these thoughts poured out of Me.

1. Dignity is fueled by respect.
2. Time is that which is not late.
3. Any song sung at a concert us an old one.
4. Her smile should be posted where everyone can see.
5. Everything has to access to something.
6. What good are my eyes if I am being polite?
7. Like icons rose from the little dawn you do not need to be getting on.
8. A sunny day is more inviting that a chocolate cake.
9. She has a smile like a poster board that sails all cross the world.
This would seem to make everyone feel so nice because she is so sweet.
10. You may not be foreign for long but you can be forever blessed.
11. Thank you so much for burning down the doubts.
12. She has made me smile and that has made me think about what I would.
rather do than sit here doing nothing at all.
13. Truth compels the lie of landslides.
14. I wish I had enough life left to give thanks to all who have done things for me thought out my meager life.
15. Humor and joy, happiness and love I lift up to your knee cap and think mystery does die.
16. People talk out loud to get attention but the best attention is to be soft spoken.
17. The meaning is in your eyes and the meaning is y our heart.
18. Confusion makes the issues burst into the telling of that which ends in collapse.
19. Sometimes what you do not understand is funny because it allows you to think of something else in your life.
20. The best of time which have not yet happened left here years ago.
21. The best of prayers are not asking the Master of the Universe for anything but giving thanks for something received.
22. If you promise to give the future of your heart to the more you currently love you will spend too much time watching to make sure that you are not giving your love away to others.
23. If you claim to be seeing in the future you are essentially denying surprise and the fact of friendship.
24. I am too structured to be an atheist.
25. She made such a nice smile that I can think about nothing else. How so nice and pleasant it was.
26. Everything is true even if not in this world.
27. Use your headlights for abstraction, and let your brains work over time, but just don't use the day to be only for the shine.

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Biography

G. David Schwartz - the former president of Seedhouse, the online interfaith committee. Schwartz is the author of A Jewish Appraisal of Dialogue. Currently a volunteer at Drake Hospital in Cincinnati, Schwartz continues to write. His new book, Midrash and Working Out Of The Book is now in stores or can be ordered.

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