dave roskos | big hammer no. 16

Collage by David Roskos


Welcome to Big Hammer

The Eviction Issue, Spring 2013


in memory of

GENE BLOOM & HARRY SMITH

For Who Who Keeps A Record: Dave Church – 4 | Ron Androla – 4, 42/43 | Joe Weil – 5/6 | Bree -7, 35 | D.R. Wagner – 8 | Jim Cohn – 9, 33 | EdGaling – 10 | Matt Borkowski – 11, 29 | Dwyer Jones – 12/13 | Dave Roskos – FC, 2,14, 36 | Michael Pingarron – 15 | Kit Knight – 16/17 | Arthur Winfield Knight – 16 | Rebecca Schumejda – 18/19 | Russell Salamon -20 | Ingrid Swanberg – 21, 31/32 | Dave Cope – 22 thru 24 | Micah Towery – 25 thru 28 | Robert Head – 29 | John Bennett – 30, 55 | A.D. Winans – 32, 45 | Emily Vogel – 34 | Jonn Neiss – 35 | Cathy Porter – 36 | TomKiyss – 37thru41 | B.Z. Niditch – 44 | Karma Bussh – 45 | Jen Dunford — 46, back cover | Ben John Smith – 47/48 | Mather Schneider – 49 | Zachary Bernier – 49 | Jake St. John – 50, 61 | K.S. Hardy – 50 | Donald Lev – 51 | Adrian Manning – 51 | Michael Estabrook – 52 – Alan Catlin – 53 | David S. Pointer – 53 | Jonathan Church – 54 | Loring Hughes – 56/57 | Bob Rixon – 58 | Rick Kearns – 58 | Charles Portolano – 59 | John Dorsey – 59,61 | Seth Howard – 59 | Mike James – 60 | Bill Barrett – 62/63 | Ken Greenley – 64 thru 66 | Dennis Saleh – 67 | John M. Bennett – 67 thru 70 | Stacey Allam – 68 | Candace Kaucher – 71 | Tom Weigel – 72 | Guy R. Beining – 73 | Steve Dalachinsky – 74 thru 79 | Linda Lerner – 80

Iniquity Press/Vendetta Books. FOB 906 Island Heights NJ 08732-0906 | iniquitypress@hotmail.com | copyrite 2013 all rites belong to poets ISSN-1043-1268. Dave Roskos, editor | Jen Dunford, assistant editor. Thank you for reading Big Hammer

IT GOES DOWN LIKE THIS

i am not gonna write
poems about
fucking
i am not going to
write
poems
about broken hearts
and young love
i am not gonna write
poems about the government
and how lousy they are
i am not gonna write
poems about gay people
let them alone to
enjoy
i am not gonna write poems
about grandmom and grandpop
i am not gonna write
poems about children
i am not gonna write about
teenagers who begin to
fuck at the
age of twelve
i am not gonna write poems
about old age
and dying
i am not gonna write
poems about
the days when i fucked a
lot of women in
whore houses and
went to the burlesque houses
i am not gonna write about
death and
how it feels to die
because i don’t know the answer
as a matter of fact
i am not even gonna
write this poem any
longer
you get what
i mean?

by Ed Galing

Collage by Jen Dunford

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