2 posts tagged “online”

Twenty-First Century Relations

I downloaded my fate

Couldn't resist doing so

So I pressed the red button

Under the photo of three smiling

women in capes

holding thread and scissors

It only cost $30.95 with tax

I have it stored on my PC

in a place separate from the sex videos

I haven't opened the document yet

I'll get drunk first

I'll make my husband read it

I reach out to on-line friends

who are really my imaginary

childhood pals who sat with me in closets

in the backseats of cars

and at the dinner table

Occasionally a punishing voice

like that of the Old Testament god

yet with a wit like Voltaire's

lashes out from the screen

What are the voices telling me today?

Which direction do I spin this wheel?

I swear wires are growing out of my fingertips

and the wheel is becoming an electric cat

Lucy Simpson, 7/2009, Seattle

Dear Friends and Neighbors.

I have to financially limit myself to two paper journals a year, but I definitely read a lot of online journals each week.  One of my favorite recent finds is Keep Going, a small online journal, so I submitted some of my poems, which appear in their summer issue.  Online journals are great, because they are free and easily accessible from your PC or the library's PC.  Please visit http://www.keepgoing.org/ to view my work and the work of others.

I also buy a few chapboooks each year, which are cheap and such a purchase means the world to the struggling authors.  Support your independent publishers and bookstores too.  Although good things come from big publishers, they can't possibly publish all that is good, so find out what is happening in little printing companies and online. 

Lucy, on  sunny Seattle day, with swollen sinuses