Grafton Street Serenade

On Grafton Street a legless buskerBegged a tune from his plastic fluteGazing the while at his missing feet By Saint Stephen’s Green With the swans and the palms and mist And the rain and his upturned orange cap Lying filthy and empty on the street As Christmas...

Celluloid Elegy

Jack Ramey reads Celluoid Elegy. – for Judy – The pigtailed killer of the wicked witchled daddy’s kids thru Emerald Citybefore she made it there herselfwhile Round John Virgin smothered the child(holy infant so tender and mild)in the Silent Nightof...

In Memoriam, Eric Marciano

February 28, 1959 – August 9, 2022  Featured Photograph by  Fred Hatt:”I often worked with Eric as a camera operator. To work with Eric was to be invited into a wide variety of fascinating special worlds – SWAT team exercises, pro domme parlors, off-off...

The Doomsday Clock: Two Minutes Till Midnight

At the near tipping point of the worldthat tilts ever more sharply now, greed and brutality slide down towardthe vast abyss that gaps beneath us and we stand at the still edge of raptureas the candy-colored clown laughs half-aloud his metamorphic chuckleand the earth...

Freedom Day

Jack Ramey reads Freedom Day. We hold these truths to be self-evident: all white men who own property are created equal – this of course excludes black people and Indian people and women and poor white whiskey tangos who have no pot to piss in. Nonetheless, it is a...