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Semantikon
and Three Fools Press present
F. Keith Wahle's Poem
"The Invitations"
20 Pages
Adobe Acrobat Format
File Size: 119 KB
Jan 6.2008
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EXCERPT:
"If I invite you to cover my body
with mashed bananas, I don’t really mean it.
I don’t even like bananas. I really mean,
let’s take a ride out to the cemetery,
and look at the black angel. Have you ever
seen the black angel? When I invite you
to snooze on my bathroom floor, I really mean,
let’s stay up all night together. Let’s talk
about art, and music, and women’s liberation..."
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Semantikon
and Three Fools Press present
2 B R O 2 B
12 Pages
Adobe Acrobat Format
File Size: 432 KB
Entered the Public Domain May 3, 2007
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EXCERPT:
"...The
painter clapped his hands in mock delight. "You
say you don't know anything about art, and then you
prove in the next breath that you know more about it than I do! Of course
the sheave-carrier is wrong for a hostess! A snipper, a pruner--that's more
your line." He
pointed to a figure in purple who was sawing a dead
branch from an apple tree. "How about her?" he said. "You
like her at all?..."
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Semantikon
and Three Fools Press present
Lupa e-book
"The Liturgy of Lupa"
37 Pages
Adobe
Acrobat Format
File Size: 286 KB
© 2007 Lupa
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EXCERPT:
"...Therianthropes are people who identify as nonhuman animals on a (generally
nonphysical) level. For instance, I am a wolf therian. I believe that, spiritually,
energetically, and psychologically, there is part of me that is more wolf than
human. I don’t turn furry and howl at the full moon, but there is part
of me that understands the world from a lupine point of view and for whom human
mannerisms and behaviors are a bit confusing." |
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| Semantikon
and Three Fools Press present an exlcusive electronic
version of
Mark Flanigan's
Minute Poems
with
Artwork by Alan Sauer
56 Pages
Adobe
Acrobat Format
File Size: 296 KB
© 1990-2007
Mark Flanigan
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EXCERPT:
Minute Poems
Enlightenment At The Buddhist Temple
nine Buddhist monks dead.
the
newsman
says
nothing was taken,
nor were there
any signs
of a
struggle.
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Semantikon
and Three Fools Press present an exlcusive electronic
version of
Fritz Kappler's
A Magic Day: Coloring Book
23 Pages
Adobe
Acrobat Format
File Size: 1.4 MB
© 2000
Fritz Kappler
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EXCERPT:
A Magic Day
" Behold the fountain of light awaits
Joy and sunshine beneath your feet
...As if written for senses unseen
Within you, beside you and just out of reach
As if held in the hands of feral beasts..." |
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Semantikon
and Three Fools Press present an exclusive excerpt of:
Max Skeans
25 Light Years from Home
(Picking Up the Pieces)
22 Pages
Adobe
Acrobat Format
File Size: 528 KB
© 1975-2006
Max Skeans
+Purchase Max's new Monograph
+ Review Max Skeans
Visual Art Feature
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EXCERPT:
Katrinas Eyes 2005
"...As the cable news media showed aerial video of
the destruction, the looting and crimes against people,
there was an aura of censorship towards showing the floating,
bloated bodies of the victims. Even so, one morning Black
American anchor began a tirade against the federal government’s
alleged failures because ‘if the city of New Orleans
had a mostly white population the response would have
come sooner. His microphone was killed and an Allstate
commercial ran...." |
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| Semantikon
Red Letter
Edition Of
Mark Twain's
On The Decay of the
Art of Lying
6
Pages
Adobe
Acrobat Reader
File Size: 33 KB
© 2005
Three Fools Press/semantikon
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EXCERPT:
"...Observe, I do not mean to suggest that the custom
of lying has suffered any decay or interruption--no, for
the Lie, as a Virtue, A Principle, is eternal; the Lie,
as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the
fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend,
is immortal, and cannot perish from the earth while this
club remains. My complaint simply concerns the decay of
the art of lying. No high-minded man, no man of right
feeling, can contemplate the lumbering and slovenly lying
of the present day without grieving to see a noble art
so prostituted..."
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Ralph LaCharity:
Notes Toward a Poetics of the Local:
Six Part Meditation on Guerilla Praxis
11Pages
Adobe
Acrobat Reader
File Size: 460 KB
© 2005
Three Fools Press/semantikon/Ralph LaCharity
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EXCERPT:
Notes Toward a Poetics of the Local
"...Just before the World sleeps again, the Poet
goes walking.
Wherever the Poet is when the World becomes Void again,
it is
from there the Poet will speak. The Last Place, &
the Place of
the Last Profession. All local poets will be gone, none
will be
about even to call the name Poet, & it is then that
the Last
Words will begin . . ."
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Willie Smith:
Submachinegun Consciousness
A Novella
39 Pages
Adobe
Acrobat Reader
File Size: 648 KB
© 2004
Three Fools Press/semantikon/Willie Smith
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EXCERPT:
Submachinegun
Consciousness:
A Novella
"...It’s one of those nights I’m drinking
alone in my basement studio; snapping polaroids of my
hemorrhoids, bending over backwards to allow time all
the time in the world to kill itself.
For the moment I’ve convinced the functionaries
I’m disabled – unfit to work. Even the therapist
has become at my hard head so pissed he last week told
me to beat it; leave him alone; go home; subsist off my
check.
I’m faking it. I’m
a spy. Insane Welfare recipient my cover. In reality,
I’m hip-deep in top secret doo-doo. If I told you,
you’d hafta put down this book and steal something
else. Suffice it to say it has everything to do with those
behind the lines reading between the lines..."
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