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How Was Your Day? By Pasquale Trozzolo Poetry ASP Bulletin | April 3, 2022 < before after> All I hear are low notes and misery. Tell me instead of boats and clouds of speed and sex and dreams and bad ideas. Tell me without the clutter. Be impersonal. Shocking. Off-kilter. Abduct me with a dangerous tale. Tell me you like the way I hold my drink. Touch my hand. Whisper something stirring. Make me nervous. Be my stranger. Just for tonight. < before after> Pasquale Trozzolo is founder of one of the leading advertising and public relations firms in the Midwest. He also spent … [Read more...]

Ceviche and Bachelor's Buttons By Richard Peabody Poetry ASP Bulletin | April 3, 2022 < before after> Dipping your toes into foamy surf your lips into salty ice   a satisfied sandpiper skipping along the Atlantic Basin   Love unrequited an apogee   The push and pull of continental shards   Pecking order of the gods Who nod out while watching our Truman shows   And miss the good parts < before after> Peabody is perhaps best known as one of the founding editors for Gargoyle Magazine, which he largely funded with his own income. He is also editor … [Read more...]

Center Square Oblivion By Ellen White Rook Poetry ASP Bulletin | April 3, 2022 < before after> We sat on your brown couch which used to be my brown couch in your fifth-floor apartment overlooking the park which used to be my fifth-floor apartment overlooking the park. You poured a torrent of Chardonnay and shook your bland Brad Pitt dirty blonde hair. The Park lamps, which were supposed to look like wrought iron gaslights, washed circles of dog tracks and boot prints in the blue snow. It was the beginning of a new year, but it was as if every living thing had disappeared. You lied … [Read more...]

Don't Fall in Love in a Physics Classroom By Leeor Margalit Poetry ASP Bulletin | April 3, 2022 < before after> There are books thrown across the floor and empty bottles at the foot of the bed and clothes falling off of hangers and it's not because I'm lazy... it's just in science class we learned about entropy: a clean room is more likely to become messier than a messy room so I'm just saving the universe some trouble. If I start off loving you with a broken heart, it's nothing personal it's just efficient. Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation states that any two bodies in the … [Read more...]

Hermes at the Kakistocracy Hotel By James J. Patterson Essay ASP Bulletin | April 3, 2022 < before It is a late Sunday afternoon in downtown Atlanta. The Conference on Myth, Fantasy, and Imagination, on the last of its four days, is taking a breather between the afternoon lectures and mealtime festivities. The conference is a serious affair and most people are here because of their work. Psychologists, art therapists, writers, scholars, health care specialists, and people for whom lifting the lid of the psyche is quest, a devotion, and for more than a few, a last resort. The book … [Read more...]