Among the rich, anger’s no rarity:
hatred comes cheaper than charity.
Genus, Aucte, lucri divites habent iram:
odisse quam donare vilius constat.
12.13 by Martial
Further Reading
LOVE IS A BLACK HOLE by Chuck Richardson
He’s losing the lot all over again. New routines do not exist. It is mature. Everything chiseled into stone gets digitized, perhaps. Logarithms asexually inhabit the whole thing—nonplussed. The unnamable becomes ineffable as It’s damaged. We are the fabric, stitched together in storms to be torn asunder, too fast and weak for immortality. At one’s […]
Until the End of Time by Grzegorz Wróblewski
(Translated from Polish by Peter Burzynski)
Mr. Z still had many things to do. He always woke up early and prepared his mind to get them done properly. He looked around the room, examining the wall and ceiling; checked the cacti. They never wanted for water. Mr. Z always took good care of his home. Next, he dusted the lamp that […]
THE AVIAN GOSPELS by Adam Novy
an excerpt from THE AVIAN GOSPELS by Adam Novy Short Flight / Long Drive Books 278 pp. $12.95 Morgan had begun to fear the surface. Norwegians were an inch away from rioting, many carried weapons, staves and clubs and bats they’d spiked with nails, not to mention guns, and he knew how the RedBlacks would […]
