Categoría: little chews
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“Changes Pass Eighty” by Matias Travieso-Diaz
By the time you’re 80 years old, you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.George Burns I often say that the life of a human is like an American football game. During the first quarter (ages 0 to 20), one grows, develops, matures, learns new things, acquires skills,…
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Featuring “The Lion’s Share of Ourselves” by KJ Hannah Greenberg
Channie’s latest book of poetry and art, “The Lion’s Share of Ourselves,” includes “Contrapuntal,” a poem that was originally published in Chewers by Masticadores! Contrapuntal Relational counterpoint, amid ample purulent discourse, seems to lackParochial, else insular links among family members. Meaning, tooOften rather that mild squabbles, personalities fulminate. Independent melodic…
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Poems About Aging, Death, and Music by Richard LeDue
The Whereabouts of the Soul Brahms composedsome of his best stuffbecause of unrequited love,broken friendships,and large amounts of wine and beer,which just further proves to methat good mental health is for thosewho only spent a past life or thirteenmucking through art (either finallyrejecting a lifetime of rejectionon their deathbedor finding…
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“Sunday Dough Boys” by Carolyn Babjak
My dad grew up in the 1930s and 1940s. I know little about his early life, though I do know he came from meager means. His mother and father separated when he was around twelve, and he and his mother moved from one apartment to another, depending on what they…
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5 Poems by Mykyta Ryzhykh
By namein you as in a churchthis night in your tender body this eternitymy lonelessin your haos and crunchof housenow it is only possible to sing the last rites for my deceased heartyou are the emptiness of black incense and the wax of an extinguished melted candlea barely noticeable fluff…
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“Disfigured” by Bill Tope
Mary was nearly perfect. Young, intelligent, and sexy and pretty, casual observers would think that she had the world by the tail. She had but one imperfection: she had six fingers on each hand. It was something she learned to live with. But she found it increasingly problematic in her…
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“Clara Von Clapp’s Secret Admirer” by John RC Potter
Clara Von Clapp made her way down the aisle of the Cornersville United Church, the silver collection plate in her hands. The organist played softly, the notes of the devotional music rising to the rafters of the church ceiling high above. In the wooden slots at the back of each…
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“MARKETING” by Peter Lingard
my name on a sandwich baglogo on a coffee cupmake me the focal pointof those who have a hunger logo on a coffee cupright before the thirsty eyesof those who have a hungermake my message crystal clear right before the thirsty eyespitch my goods to starving mindsmake my message crystal…
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5 Poems by Carl Bernard Schwartz
UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF WAR(“You Got to Whup the Champion” – Muhammad Ali)The Civil War pitted a thick-headed South that had no wish to end slavery, against the administrative policies of a Constitutional North. If the South had won, they would have stopped at nothing to sap all of the energy…
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“Cover of a Book” by Bill Tope and Doug Hawley
“Can I buy you a drink?” the tall, rumpled man asked the petite woman in the tavern. She was a looker, he thought, lightly licking his lips. She narrowed her green eyes at him, looked him up and down, and replied, “I don’t know, can you?” Ralph became newly conscious…
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“THE FLY-WHEEL OF SOCIETY” by Carl Bernard Schwartz
Habit is the enormous fly-wheel of society,its most precious conservative agent.William James, Psychology I) I had this talk with myself: There is one rumorI believe is true – that is the statement that whenfacts are asserted alone, without citing reliablesources, those facts themselves must be viewedas mere rumors. Facts can…
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“I’m Freezing” by Carolyn Babjak
“Come on, Andy! Your dad has the car ready to roll!” Mom yelled up the staircase. “Yeah, I’m coming.” Bounding down the stairs, pulling on his hoodie, Andy was still half asleep. “God, what time is it? I thought we were leaving later.” “You know your father and traffic. He…
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