Tanned & Banned

■    Having been banned from every tanning salon in New Jersey, Patricia Krentcil — dubbed “a tanorexic” by the tabloids—plans to move to Britain to continue tanning. Krentcil, 44, says that since salons started turning her away she is having “to spend hours covering myself in tanning lotion to get the color I want.” She says that even though she’s […]

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Poem – FLIPPING OUT (By Ray Gallucci)

  FLIPPING OUT   Every seven-fifty grand Earth performs a sleight of hand When magnetic north and south Make a total turnabout.   Sun does same each dozen years Minus one, when sunspots clear. Relatively quick event Due to plasma turbulent.   Earth contains no plasma hot, Just a core of molten rock. But this has the same effect, Quite […]

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Poem – Ritual Roots (By David Russell)

Ritual Roots Trains: Stringing, ringing, lifting, Breathing meringues, with pores distended at the termini   Contraction is needed for piercing of bars And holing of tickets.   The breaking of one deadlock only Institutes another, more firm, In the hand and in the basket.   More futile by far than any old bird’s weak flight Through a Church, a hall […]

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