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.

Girl Talk

       ©Nataliya Begisheva

Grains of sand, stuck

by tanning oil to your thighs

glowed gold

like pollen on petal flesh,

roughened my tongue, as rough

as the stubble, there,

where you’d shaved. A hint

of perfume, salt from sea and skin

and the musk of your sex

a heady bouquet to your wine

arouse me now, recalling

how your head fell back, eyes closed;

I felt such power

and such tenderness, as you

convulsed, and thrust

against me.

-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: Nataliya Begisheva

Natalia  Begisheva was born on March 31, 1984 in Kharkov. She studied at KNU, Karazina. She is a member of the Creative Union of Professional Artists. She can be reached at art@begisheva.com.

Daily grind

                                 © Marko Davidović

you want to throw something at the sun

for being so punctual

here you are, rumpled on the bed

awake again and still alone

dreams tumbled back

under the blankets where your hand

rests on your sex, bored with the thought

of even trying for a feeling

being alive

makes you sick today

and you want to call a stranger

masturbate while talking to him

about weather or the price of fuel

but the battery in your phone

has been dead for days, the cats

need feeding and you haven’t shaved your legs

for so long it’s going to take hours

or a wax job you can’t afford

thought of shopping in the Mall

makes you pull the blankets up

turn over

and slink back to sleep

-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: Marko Davidović

Marko Davidović was born in belgrade, 1981, finished Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, 2005, in Graphic Design. Had 4 solo exhibitions and several group ones with some awards for graphic, graphic design, painting, drawing, own made font and calligraphy.