July 10th, 2008
Spring 2008, Volume 32, Number 1
| I start thinking of flammable material, the kind |
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we buy cheap from India |
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but then I remember my grandfather’s story |
| about a chapel carved out of salt. White steeple, white |
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door, white people. We’ve been here way too long. |
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So when the light changes, I speed |
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until you and I glide |
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over the freshly laid road, the smooth road |
| we fucked into existence, only you |
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are not in the car and the white line that splits |
| the road in half, reminds me of how |
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we cannot live without salt. But this all has to do |
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with the road. I light a cigarette, change |
| the subject, only I do not have cigarettes |
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and don’t smoke. The road is black |
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like someone else’s lungs. The cilia grow |
| hard, like art, from the tar. Sculptures, scars, bread. The road. |
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The turn I made at the light is illegal. But it’s the one |
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that brought me |
| to you. I’m illegal not because I’m too young |
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or because I’m a virgin in some country |
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where virginity is collateral for land, or wine, |
| or salt, a country in which you are not a king or a pirate |
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washed ashore a beach whose shells tongue your ear |
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when you’re not listening. |
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July 3rd, 2008
This fall, we are seeking playfulness and comedy for our “Humor” theme. Connect with the citizens of cream city whether by making us laugh, cry, wince, or smile — regardless, you have to make us laugh. We are not seeking simple satire, narratives and poems with characters and narrators that serve as mere setup for gratuitous punchlines. We want your most humanizing humor: serious humor; dark comedy; playful, nuanced and vivid writing that also makes us laugh.
An important change in our Theme submission guidelines
Per usual, we will be accepting submissions for our theme issue from August 1, 2008, to November 1, 2008. New this year, we will also be accepting non-themed submission during this time. Please clearly mark theme submissions as “humor” on the outside of the envelope. Therefore, our Fall 2009 issue, in which submissions from 1 Aug 08 to 1 Nov 08 will be published, will feature humor-themed content and general submissions.
For more information on how and where to submit, visit our guidelines.
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