February 2004
dedicated to the memories of Elliott Smith, Wesley Willis, Johnny Cash, and Edward Said

cover: Rita T. Ganser with Ikuko Sakaguchi: Forlorn girl in a material world (with kitty)
0: Cory Weber: Swami
6: Joseph Thomas: Strong Measures
10: Ron Weber: Travel Notes
10: Ikuko Sakaguchi: koosin
11: scatologia: today we are flags
12: Erin Malone: Swami
12: David Zimmerman: The Long Day Wanes
16: Susan Smith Nash: Pawn Queen Psychic Prediction #18
17: Jeremy Coulter: XOXO: Part 1: The Love of a Parent
19: Sutthirat Supaparinya (Som): Swami
22: Carmen M. Ganser: a ceaseless queasy feeling
22: D.D. Marquette, trans.: Jorge Cáceres Appropriates the Douanier Rosseau
23: Nick Piombino: Mind-bending meditations [...]
23: Varakorn Pakeechaij (Mod): 21st August 2003
24: Kate Dusenbery: Ode to the Afterlife
24: Nathan Furl and Cory Weber: Dandy Fop Photoplays, Take #1: The Dandiest Fop
25: Bruce W. Hawkins: The Disciplined Tale of a Metaphysical Dickweed
30: Michael Sapiro: [It’s hard to put the nuts]
31: Mark Tardi: Four Parenthetical Poems
32: Arnold Adoff: This One for Me at Last
35: Tim Feeney: A Few Remarks about a Failed Cover-Story
37: Adam Jones: Swami
40: Tess Thompson: Family Portrait
41: kari edwards: [to than as]
42: Lucia Cordell Getsi: The Standing Cells of Auschwitz
43: Carmen M. Ganser and Adam Jones: grocery wish list written on a napkin
44: William Barker: Our Man of Confidence
48: A D Jameson: Attack from Town
49: Brooke Nelson: dream number one: notes
50: C. Dalloway: Burial of the Dead 1 and 2
60: Brooke Nelson: dream number two: dream number two
61: Robert L. McLaughlin: Introduction
62: Carmen M. Ganser and Joseph Thomas: Swami
64: Richard Flynn: Swami
65: kari edwards: [from norman culture or glaciers]
66: Kate Dusenbery: Gallup, NM
67: Ikuko Sakaguchi: tsunagari kojiki
67: Eric Nelson: War—What It’s Good For
68: Jeremy Coulter: XOXO: Part 2: The Love of a Child
74: kari edwards: Swami
75: Petros Panaou: Translation as Appropriation
76: Ron Weber: Easy Street
77: Jack McDonald: A few thoughts on Britney Spears
79: Catherine Daly: excerpt from DaDaDa
79: Joseph Thomas: Swami
81: Ikuko Sakaguchi: kanuu
82: Nathan Furl and Cory Weber: Dandy Fop Photoplays, Take #2: Actio!
82: D.D. Marquette, trans.: Jorge Cáceres Appropriates Max Ernst
83: Michael Benton: Travels in Kentucky Parts 1 and 2
86: Michael Sapiro: [If eaten in mindfulness]
87: Erin Malone: Erin High on Heather
87: Ron Weber: The Angel of Names
88: Chris McGee: [untitled]
89: Jeremy Coulter: XOXO: Part 3: The Love of a Lover
93: Ikuko Sakaguchi: basu
94: Sarah McHone-Chase: gat geng
94: Kate Dusenbery: arf arf poetica
94: Conway Turnquist: Swami
94: formerly known as l’bourgeoizine: About Next Issue
95: Tess Thompson: Evening, Oxford
95: David McHone-Chase: A (Mis)Quote From President George Bush (the younger one)
96: Tom Rodebaugh: from The Third Person (a novel)
102: kari edwards: [making sex with potential wink tangents]
102: A D Jameson: Swami
103: Gabriel Gudding: rhode island notebook
110: Jeff VanderMeer: The Mimic
111: S.W. Sally: Swami
111: A.L. Nielsen: The Art of Appropriation
cover: Abby Koehler: She’ll not stop. Go GO GO!

Thanks: Willard Bohn, Ricardo Cortez Cruz, Michael Cox, Degarmo Rapid Print, Heather Dunn, J. Roman, and Jean Smith & David Lester. Get well soon, Joseph and Dub Narcotic Sound System.

The editors apologize to Jeffrey Carr, PhD, for incorrectly printing his couplet in the Spring 2001 issue. The corrected couplet appears below:

Say, I misplaced my marriage license
When I went to Nick’s café that day.