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14 ä B u o ' U i X ä Street roots i i y March 14, 2014 The Man on the Street New Year by Don Prather by Michelle Grant Please don’t just give him a friendly wave or hello It helps but it is a bit like treating him like a nave Think of his needs and treat him like a brother With love Put your arm around his shoulder Open the cafe door and your wallet You know you can afford to buy him a warm meal, so you do It’s hot coffee and his choice of food He will see love in your eyes, And you will be blessed with the look oi gratitude in his. The new year’s purppse is to m arkthe passage of time. The divides and symbols divinely indicating Inviting yet unindicating What I sought Last year, ./ -\ Struck down Like a thuridefboltinthe static Cloud capsule* Encapsulating cohimdrum 5 D o w n to w n P e o p le by James Marsh, Jr. Downtown People always in a rush, There’s the homeless, jobless, and all people like us. Downtown People like you and I trying to do the right thing as the days go by. Downtown People every day is. tuff, Trying to eat, get a job, get housing, and a home is ruff, Downtown people different race-and different colors, Stealing and cheating and beating one another. Downtown People some don’t care and don’t give a damn, Others are good and helpful Because we’re all in this jam. Downtown People!!! T h e B u s in e s s by Kenneth Nickell Were I to have made it into, “thè business” " as they call it in Hollywood, I mighthave liked to create several stories for the silver screen. Some could be light comedies, some dark and brooding. Romance buried in layers of subversive artistry. Tragedies and adventures are likely my . -favorites. All the while in the end of my stories, made for the screen, the hero never wins. "BRIAN LINDSTROM'S ALEN BOY PACKS A HORRIFYING PUNCH: INTM ATE, TERRIBLE, & TRUE." - SHAWN LEVY. THE OREGONIAN “AUEN BOY IS A TRIUMPH - AND AN EMOTIONAL BULLDOZER.” - JOHN CHANDLER, PORTLAND MONTHLY http://www.alienboy.org/ Joanna Nordness Infinite possibilities. Only one future. Unbounded abilities. Healing a suture. Expansion of chaos. Ascent into anarchy. Chance is a coin toss. Caste, a hierarchy. Fate is a path. Fortune, an illusion. Destiny is math. Only;one conclusion. Capital is a myth. Renounce your belief. It will cease to exist. Burn a dollar like a leaf. To maximize utility. You can’t eat money? It’s their facility. It’s their milk and honey. This product we don’t need. It’s a fiction of power. It’s a falsehood of greed. It’s a toxic shower. We need to wash the Earth clean. Remove the seed of fear. Begin to trust the unseen. And all will come clear. I’m not sure how I know. So I could be wrong. But there’s got to be a better way Than the one we’ve been taking alf along. Order e-books and print copies at iamnotapoet.org or streetroots.org/iamnotapoet www.alienboy.org Available 3/25 on iTunes, ■ Amazon Instant, DVD, - and National VOD
