After coming home
from tired and thirsty, there`s a small parcel in my mailbox. Lo and behold it`s
Mark Ritchie`s bimonthly package with the two latest issues of HY!.
Hiroshima Yeah! is a monthly, black and white, cut and paste, five pager zine.
Cover star features Joni Mitchell (famous Canadian folk singer and
painter). Now let`s begin with poems `aborted plans and sudden hopes`.
Standout pieces are:
Blank
page
And so it begins
again:
Another
day,
Another
week,
Another blank
page.
Some see it
as
A fresh new
start,
While some
consider it
To be
terrifying.
I am
firmly
In the latter
camp.
And
Cool becomes
eccentric
Cool becomes
eccentric
At the age of
forty.
Last but not
least
Antisocial
media
At the Taj
Mahal
You took a
selfie
To put on
Instagram;
At the Grand
Canyon
You sent
tweets;
At Niagara
Falls
You updated your
Facebook status.
On your
deathbed
You
realized
You hadn`t seen
anything at all.
Beautiful isn`t
it. Gary Simmons writes his monthly installment of `1.5 years out on
probation`. I love senior Simmons weird personal writing style, which
seems to make more sense after my fourth beer. We have a couple
of music, concert (The Replacements, Roundhouse, 3rd June 2015), film and book
reviews. The zine ends with a trio of misfit writings: `how we love our
mums`(back and forth texting madness from Gary Simmons and Mark
Rithchie), `buzz`(nice little shorty about flies from Mark
Ritchie) and `doctor Thornaby`(words fail me here). Contact address:
Mark Ritchie
94 Main street
Forth
Lanark
ML11 8AB
UK
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