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