Archive for September, 2008
Defenestration: September 2008
Welcome to the September 2008 issue of Defenestration, the only literary magazine to be voted Undisputed King of the Interwebs by almost one-third of our staff!
This month features the poetry of Arlene Ang and Paul Giles; prose by Bryson Newhart and Hank Kirton; and visuals by Megan Roth and the Christopher Woods/Jeff Crouch “power combo.” [...]
“Beware of God”, by Megan Roth
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Megan Roth is a writer and cartoonist recently transplanted Miami. Her first book, The Green Guide to Daily Living, will be available from Cliff Road Books and Amazon.com in November, 2008. She sells t-shirts at www.clikfish.com, and plays the piano tipsy and shoeless for a chorus of stuffed snowmen and feline companions on those lonely [...]
“Looking for Band”, by Jeff Crouch and Christopher Woods
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Jeff Crouch is an internet artist in Grand Prairie, Texas. Google “Jeff Crouch” to see where he has been.
Christopher Woods lives in Houston and in Chappell Hill, Texas. It is in the latter place that he hears coyotes cry at night. He doesn’t mind them as much as the occasional skunk that shows up unannounced.
“‘Psych-Out (1968)’ Starring Susan Strasberg”, by Hank Kirton
She woke up groping for her name, she woke up deaf.
The room surrounded her. Piles of clothes, blankets and empty wine bottles lay strewn across a warped wooden floor.
She stood up, holding the wall for balance and, to test her hearing, yelled, “Hey!” She felt the word form and fly but couldn’t hear [...]
“This space intentionally left blank.” by Paul Giles
quiet shock of history eaten by
train light breaks the coke machine
this city’s anesthetic no change left
poems rained all well that’s changed
day sorry couldn’t everything give me
find my umbrella back my undies
blinking acid eyes found my liver
home stopped me in that smarties
in its tracks pack thank god
regret pulled my o didn’t i
black hair in tell you she
a tight bun had a [...]
“Genesis” and “About Your Bucket’”, by Arlene Ang
Genesis
On the seventh day,
God created ugly underwear.
He went bankrupt;
Adam and Eve offered
each other their bad breath
by eating an apple.
They kissed for the first time.
God did his arithmetic.
For reasons of debt,
He decided that the first man
and first woman
could take only two sons
outside the garden –
one wrapped in ugly underwear,
the other in cabbage leaves.
He was against
the idea [...]
“Brief History of Horn City”, by Bryson Newhart
Landscape
By establishing a team of engineers within the city limits, each confined to a mattress surrounded by a high seawall, the mattresses connected by a network of bridges designed to encroach upon individual private properties, allowing the engineers, whenever they were awake, to patrol specific homes and bungalows to ensure compliance with mandatory nature displays, [...]
“Fly Away” by Andrew Kaye
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Contrary to what you may think, AK is not a state.
