WE CAME FOUR YOU

Cover
Michael Colello was not quite half so proud when we found him broken on the beach

Comics
Remember how Will Dinski poured salt on your tongue and hung just out of reach
And Tom K played the homecoming theme as Adam York Gregory caressed your cheek
That ragged, jagged Toothpaste still clings to me like a leech.

Fiction
But that medal Michael Stigman wore on his chest always got in the way
like Roy Kesey with a trophy so soft to buy his way
We were both Shellie Zacharia but you had your ear tuned to the roar

Poetry
of some metal-tempered Aufrance on an alien, distant shore
So Renee Wells left to find a better reason than the one we were living for
and it's not that nursery mouth Kristy Bowen came back for
It's not the way Chet Corey stretched out on the floor
cause I've broken all Vanessa Mancinelli's windows and I've rammed through all Jennifer Chapis's chapbook

Etc.
And who am I to ask you to lick my table of contents?
And you should know that's true...
I came for you, for you, I came for you, but you did not need my contributors
I came for you, for you, I came for you, but your subscription was one long emergency...