Issue #26 Feb 27, 2022
Escaped Cobra Owner Jailed
“If we would have just had a lock on the cage… There wasn’t a lock.”
-Lawrence Matl
From an extended stay motel’s breezeway
in Arlington Texas a week after strapping… Read more
Woe Be the Ruddy Bank Robber
Flee, flee but
Will you stay free?
You and your bundles of green
Quickly turned red
As you fled.
Fantasies of glee
In hopes of a shopping spree
Dashed for … Read more
Kiev or Kyiv?
say it in Russian
or in true Ukrainian
the stark fact remains
on the scary brink
of catastrophic bloodshed
we wait for Putin
his fragile ego
breeds ambition to rebuild… Read more
He Skates For Gold
My eyes burn
there’s a lump
in my throat as
Nathan Chen,
in sparkling red
skates for gold
in the land of his ancestors.
His arms spread
like wings
in … Read more