Hiroshima Yeah! # 141 – November 2016 (zine)

My favorite 8.5 by 11, black & white, cut & paste photocopied monthly six pager. On the front page, we begin with poetry and `such opulence, such misery `department. My favorite pieces this time around are

Over oceans

Adrenalin can carry you

Over oceans,

But sometimes it runs out

When you`re only halfway across.

And

Certain people

They are certain people

Whom I keep close

To my heart.

And the rest of them

Can fuck right off.

And also

Fakers

Donovan does it,

Lulu does it,

John Martyn did it;

Talking with a Scottish accent

Sometimes

And an English accent

At other times.

It strikes me as fake,

Especially because

My uncle Hugh,

Who is 84 now

And has lived and worked

Abroad for most of his life,

Has never lost his Scottish accent.

I hate fakery and I hate fakers

But can`t shake the terrible feeling

That the fakers will end up

Inheriting the earth.

I can relate to that. I work with a lot of them and yes, they`re in charge. They`re like cockroaches they can survive / adapt anywhere and everywhere. Gary Simmons has two columns this time around (13.82 billion years of hell & Soviet LK moon lander VS relationshits). There`s some music, book and concert review (Bob Mould, at the Garage, Glasgow 10^th October and Richmond Fontaine at The Caves, Edinburgh 18^th October). We end this beautifully with a shorty from Mark Ritchie (something truly wonderful) and some nice black and white drawings form parts unknown. Contact: donbirnam@hotmail.com