Hiroshima Yeah! # 135 – May 20016 (zine)

This is my favorite 8.5 by 11, cut & paste, black & white, monthly zine (5 pager). There`s a beautiful Elizabeth Taylor picture on the front cover. Now let`s begin with `poetry of lunacy `department. Standout poems are

SC

We have been friends

For many years

But your neediness

Has become insufferable

Lately.

Meeting you now

Is a chore.

I wish you would join

The society of freaks

Who drink on their own,

As I did a long time ago.

And leave me alone.

And

Doing nothing

It is frightening

How rapidly

The months can vanish;

Getting up,

Going to the library,

Then to the pub;

Nothing really happening.

And the relief,

The novelty

Of doing nothing

Slowly turns

To boredom

And then

To anxiety

And depression.

But the fear

Of doing something,

Something new,

Is overwhelming,

Terrifying.

Pretty funky if you ask me. There`s our monthly features of `13.82 billion years of hell ` (Garry Simmons writes music reviews this time around), and `doctor Thornaby` (strange / bizarre / weird to say the least). We also have some book , music and concert (Richmond Fontaine, art school, Glasgow 27-04-2016). We end this zine with a couple of short stories from the likes of Gaya Donadio & Garry Simons (dialogue between a promoter and a probationing man) and Mark Ritchie `café de chattes `. Contact: donbirnam@hotmail.com