Saturday 14 November 2015

Hiroshima Yeah! # 127 September 2015 (zine)



My favorite reading / drinking material. HY! is a black & white, cut & paste, 8.5 by 11 inches, monthly, seven pages long zine. Richard Burton (1925 – 1984 was a famous Welsh stage / cinema actor, a womanizer, and an alcoholic) is the cover star. We open things up with poetry `drunk with sadness`. Standout pieces this time around are:
Pretend normal
We all have to pretend
To be normal
In order to get through life
But all of us have skeletons in closets
Hard drives loaded with animal porn
And dead hookers under the bed.
Don’t`we?
And
Social interaction
Sitting alone at the bar,
Eyes glazed over,
Not really looking at anything
Or anyone.
This is the highpoint
Of my day.
Finally:
A somewhat perfect day
I spoke with my mother on the phone.
I sat on some grass in the park.
I ate boiled eggs and drank orange juice.
I had a few pints in a pub with some friends.
I saw a few people whom I wanted to fuck.
What else is there?
Now that`s what I`m talking about; short and sweet poems. Gary Simmons writes his wild, neurotic, crazy but funny as hell monthly column of `13.82 billion years of hell `. DEVON GET THE PROZAC! There are a couple of books, zines, DVD and music reviews. We end this zine with: `the unlocked keypad`(insane texting from the likes of Gary Simmons and Mark Ritchie), `8709531`(nice shorty from da man himself; Mark Ritchie), and `doctor Thornaby` (this one almost makes me feel normal if that`s a possibility). Contact address included here: 
Mark Ritchie
94 Main street
Forth
Lanark
ML11 8AB
UK
 
 


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