Mighty Mercury

Poetry and Art by Lucy Schwartz

Mighty Mercury

random girls don't waste time

it always floods

after four fingers

in the alley

where the dumpsters

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Eight Shorts

Zack Kopp

Homesick

Shooting pains in my stomach as soon as I entered the room. This was supposed to be my home, but it was making me sick. I started feeling it just walking up the driveway, passing under the basketball hoop. Even turning the friendly family doorknob I felt woozy and somehow un-right. But not until plunging my feet in the deep pile shag living room carpet did I feel those fiendish fingers of

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Seven shots by Eleanor Leonne Bennett

Mighty Mercury

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An Excerpt from an Anti-Novel-in-Progress

Alana Capria

i fall onto

the skeletal pumpkin. it pushes me away. we sit in the fog together. condensation covers our faces. [why did you go into the tree, the skeletal pumpkin asks and burns its accordion face with a tiny match plant.] i bite the skeletal pumpkin. it presses its skeletal mouth together and whimpers several times. [i am not pie, the skeletal pumpkin says. how dare you treat me like that? do you think i am sugared and baked so that you can have a culinary delight? i am not. in fact, i am full of parsley leaves. they grow out of my seeds.

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Six Poems by Eric Anderson

Mighty Mercury

My First Funeral

I was the one they made climb in the casket. I was just a boy,

and I thought the sleek corners looked like a sports car, tight

through the turns, tires squealing.

Everyone was dead except for me and the morticians,

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Mod-Culture / George Perrou

Mighty Mercury

George Perrou's "Mod-Culture" art gives nods to Miro, Kandinsky and Calder as well as the Hanna-Barbera and Warner Bros. cartoons of his youth.

Perrou is self-taught and has developed a distinctive style all his own.

His work can be found in collections across the country.

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Raw and one more

Su Red

Several years ago
I first started a painting for you
one I still haven't shown you,
I knew you only as the funny older man
who'd sometimes show his face,
make a room full of people laugh,
or scare some away when you
were in a bad mood.
We talked a little, not a lot.
I was fine with that then,

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