Picaroon - Issue #15 - March 2019
It's Picaroon's third birthday this month! And we have an issue packed full of riffs on dreams, death, philosophy, doom and assorted other themes you've come to expect from Picaroon over the past three years. Featuring work by Rosie Garland, David Wyman, Isaac Stovell, Deb Scudder, Thomas Tyrrell, Emily Strauss, Daniel Paul Marshall, Pam Thompson, Mark J. Mitchell, Betsy Housten, Courtenay S. Gray, Aytan Laleh, Matt Gilbert, James Croal Jackson, Lucy Dixcart, Louisa Campbell, Peter Clive, Jonel Abellanosa, Matt Duggan, Rupert Locke, Sanjeev Sethi, Howie Good, Spangle McQueen, Ron Riekki, Frederick Pollack, Rus Khomutoff, Mistress Chardonnay, Ceinwen E Cariad Haydon, Andie Berryman, Charley Barnes, Lisa Stice, Maxine Rose Munro, Chris Hardy, Amy Soricelli, Victoria Nordlund, and John Leo.
It's Picaroon's third birthday this month! And we have an issue packed full of riffs on dreams, death, philosophy, doom and assorted other themes you've come to expect from Picaroon over the past three years.
Featuring work by Rosie Garland, David Wyman, Isaac Stovell, Deb Scudder, Thomas Tyrrell, Emily Strauss, Daniel Paul Marshall, Pam Thompson, Mark J. Mitchell, Betsy Housten, Courtenay S. Gray, Aytan Laleh, Matt Gilbert, James Croal Jackson, Lucy Dixcart, Louisa Campbell, Peter Clive, Jonel Abellanosa, Matt Duggan, Rupert Locke, Sanjeev Sethi, Howie Good, Spangle McQueen, Ron Riekki, Frederick Pollack, Rus Khomutoff, Mistress Chardonnay, Ceinwen E Cariad Haydon, Andie Berryman, Charley Barnes, Lisa Stice, Maxine Rose Munro, Chris Hardy, Amy Soricelli, Victoria Nordlund, and John Leo.
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Deb Scudder<br />
The Pain Machine<br />
I have built a machine<br />
that feels other people’s pain.<br />
Simply enter the details of the person<br />
whose pain you wish to understand,<br />
to receive a printout detailing<br />
every pinch, twinge, and shame.<br />
Once you have your printout<br />
and think you grasp what their pain is,<br />
you can cross reference their coordinates<br />
with your own.<br />
Feed those into the machine<br />
and hook yourself up to one of the hair-thin wires<br />
that come in the pack (non-refundable).<br />
Wrap it around your forefinger and wait.<br />
Within five minutes, you will feel their pain;<br />
every unsated desire, every slipped disc,<br />
every pointed look from a friend,<br />
every squeeze of the uterine wall,<br />
and every hatred.<br />
The machine is available in a range of colours,<br />
but I do not offer any guarantee of results,<br />
or that what you experience will really be<br />
the pain of the other person, or your own.<br />
Please enjoy the pain of others responsibly.<br />
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