keepgoing.org :: Winter 2007

In This Issue

Spirited

Up in the kitchen, Ouzo and Tequila had decided to put on a demonstration of their mixed martial arts techniques, and things had rapidly gotten out of hand. They were now scrabbling around on the dirty kitchen floor, Ouzo trying to work an arm-bar, Tequila trying to get to his feet. FICTION by Steve Spaulding

Manifest Density

For the million-and-sixth time, I have heard of Jesus! Everyone with a functioning pair of ears has, by this point in time, heard of Jesus. Okay? Now stop asking me this threadbare old question as though you'd just invented cold fusion over breakfast this morning! By Patrick Russell
The Mother

What difference could they make to me, the deaths of others, or a mother’s love, or his God; or the way a man decides to live, the fate he thinks he chooses, since one and the same fate was bound to “choose” not only me but thousands of millions of privileged people who, like him, called themselves my brothers. Edited by William Walsh
Subpoena

Honestly, I’ve got more than fifteen lines already. / I swear, I swallow, I’ll sing, / just not, / here / in a space I crowd. Poetry by M. Shaan Haque
The Bumfuzzled Brothers Present: Unwashed Poems for the Unwashed Masses

One day / the world will feel / our love / and it will be awkward / for everyone
By Rutger and Edgar Bumfuzzled

In the Dark

Because he could only respond to those challengers who, because of their rank or their ignorance, were considerably weaker than he was, the others he attacked from behind screens and corners. He was rarely convincing, never impressive. I thought of him as a thing composed mostly of glass -- something obvious and breakable but with a cutting edge that, at times, could be sharp and deep. By T.R. Healy
Two Poems

We race past foreign vehicles, / intent on unknown places, / in a land that dispossesses us.
POETRY by Gary Beck
Mike Huckabee and the Republican Rift

Out of this extremely muddy field has arisen the former governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee. Why the hell has Arkansas played such a major role in American politics over the last two decades? Does the chicken industry hold that much power in this country? First you get the chicken, then you get Arkansas, then you’re the leader of the free world. Who knew? By Pontiac Askum

Departments

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