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