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WENDELL TRUAX has deigned to stoop to our level just this once. A putrid specimen of his “metafiction,” whatever that is, may be glimpsed within these sorry pages. Yes, he studied with the legendarily abusive editor whose name escapes me at the moment, and yes, he’s published his unreadable dreck in oh-so snooty litmags that pipsqueak writers & editors coo & crow over on their incestuous blogs. And now here he is in Sow Bug, and the joke is on him. I solicited the bum thinking his crew might talk up our humble mag, but now I see that they only care about their stupid readings and their New York parties. Fuck them all, and fuck you too, Wendell. I don’t need your kind. My novel will be finished soon, and then you’ll see. MARINA SKENK is the editrix of Top Quality Lit and a part-time Bettie Page impersonator. She lives in San Francisco with her life partner, twelve cats, and an iguana named Dagmar. DUANE LEVESQUE’S long poem, One Shoe by the Roadside, won the 2008 Turtle Breath Review Poetry Competition. He resides in Ann Arbor with his wife and daughter and is pursuing a PhD in Comparative Literature. He’s had poems in Burnout, Fred’s Magazine, Gegenschein, Petals in the Abyss, Mood Ring, Dirty Puppy, Carson City Review, Infinite Pudding, Monkey Bites, Quare Fellow, Karaoke of the Mind, and Too Much Cake. Yeah, yeah, whatever. Look, Sow Bug is indeed kaput, but I’m starting a new, even better litmag—it’s called Paramecium Dreams, and for our first issue we’re having a contest! Send us your best poems & short stories. The entry fee for each work is $20 (cheap!). Make checks payable to Cash. Send all MSS to Paramecium Dreams, General Delivery, Cheesequake, NJ 45802 Namaste, dudes!
TWO POEMS By Laura Madeline Wiseman Author bio: Laura Madeline Wiseman’s recent books are Drink (BlazeVOX Books), Wake (Aldrich Press), and The Bottle Opener (Red Dashboard). She teaches in Nebraska. Her collaborative book Intimates and Fools (Les Femmes Folles) with artist Sally Brown Deskins, is an Honor Book for the 2015 Nebraska Book Award. Our Life in Catnaps When we move in together, we sleep on blankets nested on the floor. We sleep on pillows lined up like dominos, our butts falling through the cracks. We sleep on a camping air mattress you bring home from the big box. It’s part-time, better than donating blood. We fill the air mattress, spread sheets. In the morning it’s flat. I say, Put it under water. You take out your phone to learn six ways to find a leak, watch three videos of people with nail polish and superglue, spray bottles and valves that won’t shut, spend two hours getting the kitchen floor wet. The electric pump whirls. You say, Maybe we could plug it in all night. You curse. You take off your shirt. You carry the wilting plastic into the shower and fill the tub. The apartment fills with stream. Your hair curls. I bring you a beer in in a pint with a cat pattern. I make myself coco in a mug with the handle in the shape of a cat tail. After midnight, I say. Let’s throw it away, not wanting to wake surrounded by a plastic puff of failure. I say, My ex-uncle might know someone with an extra bed. I don’t say he’ll want to give us cats, he’ll want to play bridge, he’ll want to get you job as a nurse, even though you’d prefer to get a job catfishing. I kiss your nose, scratch your chin, and pull you to the floor sleep.
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TWO POEMS By Sommer Lyn Cullingford
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from the hellion haunt of hydra-hea
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Pneumatic pianos play all night for
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the surety gives way to randomness.
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Ice Cream Utopianism By Matt Duggan
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Two Poems By Jeff Nazzaro Author bi
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Elsewhere, self-loathing, corrupted
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This is Me and My Dogbite (Satire)
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to share. Someone WAS losing weight
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Review of Jupiter Works on Commissi
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half the poems in Wrack Lariat, it
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