Friday 16 May 2014

Hiroshima Yeah! # 110 (April 2014) (zine)


A 8.5 by 11 inches black and white, cut and paste, monthly, five pager zine. We open things up with poetry from `the absence pit. More amazing poems from  the man himself: `Mark Ritchie`. My favorites include:
Words gathering dust
All those words we wrote,
Filling up boxes,
Bags,
Cupboards,
Garages:
Where did all those words get us?
Did they make us rich?
Happy?
Slightly less  alone?
Or where they all for nothing?
Merely a waste of space,
Time and effort?
All those words we wrote
They seemed so vital at the time
Are now simply
Words gathering dust.
And also;
Here  Forever
I`ll be here forever,
Through drunkenness,
Through embarrassment,
Pity,
Shame,
Lust,
Lost loves.
I`ll be here forever
Because some of us
Have nowhere else to go.

Good stuff, it makes you recall those forgettable nights of drunken oblivion. Next there`s a plethora of music and book reviews. Gary Simmons writes his monthly installment of``the great rock`n`roll tolchock` (he`s out of jail but unfortunately still on probation). There`s a picture of Gary inside. Man I`m jealous he`s got hair!!! I`m at the ripe old age when you have hair growing everywhere except on your head. And no I mean the thinking head on top, not the receptive one downstairs dumbass!!! There`s more poems from the likes of Mitch Hell, and some short stories by Kyle Nonneman, Gary Simmons and head honcho Mark Ritchie. Contact address: Mark Ritchie
94 Main Street
Forth
Lanark
ML11 8AB
UK


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