Sunday, July 19, 2015


Cheap Seats Ticket to Ride
Issue #4

A little late into the mail…almost not at all.
Slight mishap at the printers left about forty percent of the project…? lost, shredded, misplaced—eaten? But that occasional squirrel under p.l.’s hat had earlier advised, make copies; and so he did, in a sort of fashion, so re-constructing was possible and mostly complete. Had to actually reset some of the pieces (a big no-no in our book) but desperate times…

Some new, unusual, and energetic writers have begun flowing into the ol’ Ford van’s high-tech mail system (that be an overflowing Merrell hiking boot box.) Some good work falling by the road-side; unfortunately, not useable due to size (mostly, too wide… please, writers: it is…
2-5/8” — 2-7/8 max, max. And we don’t want to read about your pee-pee—save that for your, no doubt, hyper-intellectual back yard beer and brats bbq buddies.)
   We’re attempting to select materials that are not only generally acceptable, but well written, interesting and correctly graphed (correctly being an objective property, herein) but that are relevant to today. Materials one may share with at least semi-cognizant’s; the guy sitting next to them at the Philippe’s lunch table, sawdust about their feet; parent at the high-school basketball game, in a pause (?) while stuffing popcorn and screaming; the guy in the bus seat next to them; their son or daughter—without getting guffawed out of the room. In today’s language; subject matter and a meter that is not of another long past, grey-haired era.

Let’s reach down deep into the bucket of poesies at draw forth a few examples of this latest issue.

“against an indigo forever
the river of stars stretches
mountain silhouette
to
mountain silhouette

constantly tugging
at my sleeve”

                           “uncle”

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“gravel road
the swoops and curves
end at your doorstep”

     Peggy Dugan French

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“on the trash can lid
individual snowflakes
stacking

grilled cheese sandwich
buttering one side
burning the other”

                 also from: bch

       Candi Cooper-Towler

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“forest glade  cool blue hush
dippin’ in the mash
won’t be long till waltz-time

chickaree scolding
   from the sugar pine bough

double checkin’ leaks
steam-pipe fix
ground rye and oatmeal paste
stubborn ones
get the Snuffy Smith rag

cooker boilin’ a-hum
   vibrating hive o’ angry bees

and thump-bucket beating
a drivin’ tattoo  fiddlers’ ease
five-eights whiskey stomp

foreshot  gurgles its amber flow

time for proofing down
mean one hundred and eighty
careful now  little bit more
limestone water  crystal clear
shakin’ up that Mason Jar

big ol’ beads  vanish
   like startled rabbits

scoopful ready for the sippin’…

smooth one hundred and one
proofed so fine
mountain corn-still melody”

                      Winter Creek Jack

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Remember: Ticket Book #5 will have the
Pushcart Prize nominations from
Cheap Seats Ticket to Ride.

Write often, be well,  Max tdc

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