Today’s hearing of the
Senate Armed Services Committee

ended with a near-unanimous decision
which ordered the unconditional withdrawal

of every redheaded soldier in Iraq.
“America doesn’t support troops like that,”

said a senior Delaware Senator,
“I mean, parents may tell their children

that freckles are just ‘kisses
from angels,’

but we are all adults here,
& we all know better.

They are just
gross.”

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Ryan Bird’s poems make regular appearances in some of Canada’s most suppositious literary magazines, including: Free Verse Good, Free Prose Bad; The Backslap Quarterly and Rage Against the Colophon. His poems have also made more substantial appearances in a very real chapbook called Under One Roof, available through Trainwreck Press. Also, read his blog Robot Kissing Booth.

Your Editors Started At An Early Age

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before – we’re sobering up here at the mag. Another long night has passed. It’s true, many authors have jumped on the wagon, or is it off? But did that actually change their work? Let’s investigate. Sherman Drexler got off the writing wagon at Berkeley. Maybe he, like Arthur Phillips, struggled to discover how to write about music. That might drive one to drink. Or feel small in the world. With a lot to say. No one will miss dying, but if you go in Paris, there is a good chance your grave will be a happening spot. Garcon, water, please. – Andrew Geer

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