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       © Rafael González         

Art Courtesy: Rafael González

Rafael González is a visual and sound artist and he hails from Spain.

Kolkata Kolkata!!!

Photo Courtesy: Debdatta 'Riju' Mukherjee 

Debdatta 'Riju' Mukherjee lives in Kolkata and barely survives his insufferable job as an IT professional through poetry, photography and whiskey.

Numbed to the Procedure

                              © Jaya Suberg

Lifeless and limp..

the warm blood

of a bloated body

hangs heavy

in our hands

Animal sacrifice

to be plucked

for a feast

Survival mechanism

necessary to the tongue..

the gods will understand

numb to the grave

numb to the bone

numb in the stomach

numb is the cycle of carnage

-by  Scott Thomas Outlar

Scott Thomas Outlar hosts the site 17Numa.wordpress.com where links to his published poetry and fiction can be found. His chapbook "Songs of A Dissident" is forthcoming in early 2016 through Transcendent Zero Press, and his words have appeared recently in venues such as Words Surfacing, Yellow Chair Review, Section 8 Magazine, Angry Manifesto, and Literary Orphans.

Painting Courtesy: Jaya Suberg

Jaya Suberg was born in 1956 in Hagen, Germany. In 1980 she came to the “walled-in” city of Berlin and immediately felt  at a completely different universe.  Initially she worked the photographs and other materials into a collage diary, then  she started combining her photography with painting, drawing, digital collage and mixed media.  

Sober Again

                           © Miguel Angel Ferreiros

She sings

"Don’t be so reckless"

And at the top of her

Wet soggy shirt

Her old

Pancake

Boob falls out

I leant her 30 cents for the

Pay phone.

She put the money

In the phone,

Hangs up

Moves to the other side of the room

And puts the money in her

Pink dressing gown pocket.

She comes and sits back down on the

Couch and we watch Australian idol

People drink coffee and the pay phone never rings.

-by Ben John Smith

Ben John Smith is the editor of www.horrorsleazetrash.com and lives in Melbourne Australia with his wife and two cats. He is expecting his first child in May and couldn't be more excited.

Painting Courtesy: Miguel Angel Ferreiros

Miguel Angel Ferreiros was born in 1960 and studied in Estudia en Estímulo de Bellas Artes, M.E.E.B.A. ( mutual egresados de Bellas Artes), Argentina. In Chile he studied in La Universidad Católica. His paintings have been showcased since 1980 to the present in galleries and cultural centers. In Recent years, he has been working on Tango and Erotica in Buenos Aires.

Kolkata Kolkata!!!

Photo Courtesy: Swadesh Misra

Swadesh Misra is a photographer, writer, traveler and an artist. He loves music, nature, divinity, dreams, country, hiking and nothing more. He believes in miracles.

Happiness is Hard

                                    © Janne Karlsson

I want to write but I’m

Too damn happy.

Sure, I’m depressed and

I have a shit job and

I haven’t seen a payrise

Since before we all saw

Kim Kardashian’s cunt

But I’m happy,
And it’s hard

I need to be able to write

Without the dove-shit white

Page gradually turning black

I’ve no way to let the

Beast out.  The madness out.

My condition will remain caged,

Locked up and prowling

Inside of me, eating

Whatever’s left of my soul 

-by David Louden

Belfast native David Louden is the author of the roman á clef neo-beat novels Lost Angeles, Bone Idol [bohn ahyd-l] and the novella-short story hybrid White Mexicans chronicling the life of his alter-ego Doug Morgan.  His major influences in literature have been cited as Charles Bukowski, John Fante, William S. Burroughs and Brendan Behan. At present Louden is developing a Noir project for television set in Belfast which he hopes will go into pre-production within the year.

Art Courtesy: Janne Karlsson

Janne Karlsson is a wildly prolific Swedish illustrator and writer.

GUIDED BY REMOTE

the hands are claws,

oyster-cloying genitals of beasts

star-bound.

we are wards of space

like rock’n roll

bound for the unconscious-

destroyers of practical

management.

the hands melt down,

physics scowl,

dreams, molten lava

and music-

given you got

tablature,

can’t match Resurrection or

prepubescent hard-ons, amongst

the awkward dust of the

Tonka truck.        

-by Jay Passer

Jay Passer's work has appeared in print and online since 1988. His most recent chapbook, FLOWER OMELETTE (also including the work of Misti Rainwater-Lites) is available through Lulu. Passer lives and works in San Francisco, the city of his birth.

Painting Courtesy: David Balilty

David Balilty is an Israeli artist with North African roots. He was born in Jerusalem in 1971 to a family of artists and musicians. In his most recent work, David has combined three mediums of  visual artistic experience for his abstract painting.