Dashboard Horus: A Bird's Eye View of the Universe

  If there is no part of you unfulfilled by stock options and prime time programming and cutting edge digital technology – then perhaps these poems are not for you (From “Notes to Self”, Richard Modiano) It’s not often you find a warning label in a poetry book; it’s refreshing, and sometimes necessary. To be honest, poetry is not for everyone, especially poetry that champions the causes of those who are not socially/economically/racially privileged, that’s also political, passionate, and deeply personal. Richard Modiano’s The Forbidden Lunchbox (© 2022 Punk Hostage Press), is all of these things.  Full disclosure: I’ve known Modiano, though not as well as I’d like to, for almost two decades. I know him as an expert haiku/senryu poet, a guy who was instrumental in steering Beyond Baroque back from the brink of financial ruin, and as a certified member of the Industrial Workers of the World . I know him as an honest, forthright, decent man, who, once committed to a cause, integrates it

  Eric Lawson is an award-winning writer and filmmaker. He is the author of the story collection Circus Head (2023, Sybaritic Press) and the poetry collection Backseat Emperor (2023, 2 nd Avenue Press). His work has recently appeared in Ashes to Stardust: A David Bowie Tribute Anthology as well as Dark Onus Lit and Maudlin House . He is the writer and director of the short films The Socially Distant Murder Mystery and A Scardouche!!! Thanksgiving and hosts the video podcast Make Your Own Fun on YouTube. Granny Grumbly was a bonafide gunslinger when it came to bingo. With her hot pink  track suit, blue-tinged curly wig, dark sunglasses, and plastic visor embossed with the phrase  ‘Read ‘Em And Weep’—she was a sight to behold. A haunted vibe, some said. She always sat at table three, chair five. The last person who mistakenly sat in her seat  was elbowed in the throat and shoved onto the floor before the poor sap even knew what hit him.  Her Big Gulp cup from 7-Eleven was usually fill

© 2023 marie c lecrivain Adrian Ernesto Cepeda is the author of Flashes & Verses… Becoming Attraction s from Unsolicited Press, Between the Spine from Picture Show Press, Speaking con su Sombra with Alegría Publishing,  La Belle Ajar & We Are the Ones Possessed from CLASH Books and his 6th poetry collection La Lengua Inside Me will be published by FlowerSong Press in 2023.  Adrian lives with his wife in Los Angeles with their adorably spoiled cat Woody Gold. Of Love and Departures Here we are at Midway, Lucy with her huge baggage filled with all the half-truths she never told me, Lucy knows the only thing I care about is what happens back at our room off the red line by Wrigleyville, as she loves sharing her red lips, her tongue my mouth, making poetry with our bodies as the vinyl spins The Blinding EP, as I peel off her loose fit pink Babyshambles tee between my teeth,