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The lover of a subversive/is also a subversive, so said Martin Espada. So said The Girl with booze on her breath when her eyes were very dark green tonight and asked me to trespass on the undiscovered countries of her body that have yet to be abused. When sex is the last subversive act, so said Steve Erickson, I am a guerilla. This drunk already,...
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So I have mentioned before that I work at the school library on an archiving project that allows me to spend my time around four decades’ worth of thesis projects. There are many things about this that I love, but one of them is that I encounter all of the wonderful and interesting thesis titles. Thesis titles, by virtue of being all APA analytical and...
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I'm not saying that I'm at a bar eavesdropping on the conversations of strangers ... but if I were, then I might have just overheard the two middle-aged-baseball-cap-wearing-walking-pot-bellied-mid-life-crisis-machines next to me discussing what to do when your wife discovers that you're having an affair.

The Girl

By James Bezerra

The Girl in my bed

is breathing quite softly now

and dreaming dreams of moths.

Those slight gray butterflies

who’d be so beautiful in a world

of black and white.

The Girl in my bed

is breathing so softly now

her dreams aglow with pale light.

Her moths like clouds around a sun

circling and circling, but nothing to be...
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NEW BLOG POSTS! On topics as diverse as: Sexy poetry! Redheads! Things I meant to write about strippers who play DnD! Torture poetry! And stuff my mom mailed me!

Over/Under

by james bezerra

Overwhelmed and

undersexed and

over-stressed and

underpaid and

over caffeinated and

underappreciated and

over budget and

under duress.

These books are in the CSUN library. I found them the other day while looking for a tome called “The Dictionary of Imaginary Places” and these enchantment books were just sitting there on a shelf! I was shocked that books of magical instruction like this were just left out for anyone to read. Enchantments of course were the machine guns of a fargone age when
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NEW BLOG POSTS! On topics as diverse as: Vodka dispensers! J.D. Salinger! The French New Wave! Also: TWO brand new (poorly edited) short stories! And a crap-ton of bad poetry!