KOLKATA : Street Calligraphy I

In this electric zombieland, this beaten land of wishful indulgence, the deathroll of the bureaucratic juggernaut buries the hungry body and mind. The writing here, is always on the wall.

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.

No Mercy DD or A Piece Of Shit

      © Shota Voskanyan


I party hard and dance ‘til three

drink fine champagne as if it’s tea.

I fill my flute and gulp it whole -

may God have mercy on my soul.

I drink to keep the ghosts at bay

or else they’d haunt me night and day.

When you need bread I offer coal -

may God have mercy on my soul.

You know I’m just a piece of shit

with torrent words of stinging wit

and matrimony’s not my goal -

may God have mercy on my soul.

-by  Mercedes Webb-Pullman

Mercedes Webb-Pullman graduated from IIML Victoria University Wellington New Zealand with her MA in Creative Writing 2011. Her work appears online and in print (Danse Macabre, Turbine, 4th Floor, Swamp, Reconfigurations, The Electronic Bridge, poetryrepairs, Connotations Press, The Red Room, many anthologies, and her books  Ono, Looking for Kerouac, After the Danse, Numeralla Dreaming, Food 4 Thought, Tasseography and Bravo Charlie Foxtrot) She lives on the Kapiti Coast, New Zealand.

Painting Courtesy: Shota Voskanyan

Shota Voskanyan was born in 1960 in Yerevan, Armenia.  He Studied at the Moscow University of Arts and he is a member of the Union of Artists of Armenia since 1995. He did his personal  and collective exhibitions all over the world.