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July 4th Issue:

Editor's Note

Five Photographs by Chuck Taylor
Four Photographs by Christopher Woods
Six Photographs by Gabriela Anaya Valdepeña
Three Songs by David Rovics
Walter Brasch on People's 100 most beautiful people
Dean Kisling on the American overpass
Evelyn Pringle on the FDA and Antipsychotic Pushers
Constitutional Rubbish by Joel S. Hirschhorn
It's Time for the Madness to Stop by Sheila Samples
Hans Bennett Interviews Aviva Chomsky
The Psychology of Scriptwriting: A Film by Jack Feldstein
Six Poems by Leonard J. Cirino
Four Poems by Hosho McCreesh
Three Poems by Mark Kerstetter
Three Specimens by Mark Cunningham
Two Poems by Gene Keller
Two Poems by Chris D'Errico
Two Poems by justin.barrett
Two Poems by Deidre Elizabeth
Star-Spangled Manner: A Poem by León De La Rosa
Three Poems by Amy King
At the Beautician's: Fiction by Tom Bradley
King of the Gunmen: Fiction by Stephen Muret
Mission to Dreamland: Fiction by Robert Ciesla
Whatever Happened to the Man with the Familiar Face?: A Novella by Rion Amilcar Scott


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Three Poems by Bob Marcacci


steer clear of barnyard
         talk           the strange talk
             a toy machine makes
when the string is pulled out of its hole
                        goes back in as the middle spins




Victoria's Secret

   perfect at the bottom of the ocean
              a serious malfunction                      hope
           tragedy community
         salvaged bodies are recovered
                 suffering families

insurance claims killed all the other ones
                 traces on nightbeat embedded
                            treasure mecca
homeless jobs at the tourist attractions stable
                       plan implement remains combination
                                 fire olympics
                         day and night tuned
                                   to the tv
                   clearly we're a little bit happier
                                     at the pool

                     ice-cream vendors win this time





screwing blind lines
                                        fuck the girls
get stepped on
wish the sky would die
red white and bled-blue

because they bother me
the newspapers
                                          don't say anything
black and white
most people own color
TV's

i donšt even like it here


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Bob Marcacci says, "A San Francisco State University graduate and native Californian presently living and writing in Beijing, China, my poems have appeared in many print and electronic publications around the world. Recent work has appeared in Ghoti, Poems Niedergasse and Tin Lustre Mobile."


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