Contributor Series 9: If Men Had Ears To All the Music I Will Never Hear By Louis Gallo You’re driving around, switching stations, and out flows a new Beatles song, something you’d missed, or, shifting to NPR, a little Mozart motet takes you unaware. So much lost throughout history, no archeological remains, vanished, no trace, […]
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Contributor Series 9: If Men Had Ears, Night and Day
Contributor Series 9: If Men Had Ears Night and Day (based on Imogen Heap’s “Between the Sheets”) By Jenny Billings Beaver You always wanted me between the sheets. For you, it doesn’t get better than this. Tracing patterns where your supple lips meet, I leave you transfixed in absolute bliss. Oh, come back, sweet sleepless, […]
Contributor Series 9: If Men Had Ears, Is she young?
Contributor Series 9: If Men Had Ears Is she young?By Jeffrey Grunthaner Well, it’s not like such things weren’t always in the works. You know this, & still it hurts. The answers must lie in the radio, churning out hits like an espresso machine. Layer pills with some coffee, & then take some of these. […]
Contributor Series 9: If Men Had Ears, Coda
Contributor Series 9: If Men Had Ears Coda By Michael K Gause Pitch black, I need to hear screaming down the street and that eternal hymn of our weakness Swears mingle with moist cool air like drunk brass arguing over the tempo An organ of tires comes screeching so I do not miss a moment’s […]
Contributor Series 9: If Men Had Ears, Donetsk 2009
Contributor Series 9: If Men Had Ears Donetsk 2009 By Darryl Willis The Beatles stand frozen in Liverpool: songs etched on empty lips. Only tourists stop to wonder. Eleanor wanders between lifeless roses, shadows caressing her face. And in a park nearby Lenin stands alone: a nowhere man. Children have all but forgotten the dreams […]
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