Cerebral Contents:

Update for 05.13.08:

Male Model by Phil Doran

Set to Replay by Willie Smith

Backsliding by Cynthia Ruth Lewis

Tree by G. David Schwartz

05.05.08:

Disintegration by Don Hucks

Five Feet and Building by Joel Van Noord

Grocery Aisle by Richard Lighthouse

Cross the Road by Ashok Niyogi

04.29.08:

Lookalikes by Phil Doran

Dinner by Brandi Wells

The Modern Covenant by Daniel E. Wilcox

Death by Onions by Michael Frissore

04.21.08:

Future's Children by Kimberly Raiser

Identity Theft by George Anderson

The Datists by Adam Engel

A Great Deal of Money by Justin Hyde

04.14.08:

Mr. Papaya and Dale by Eric Suhem

California by Caroline Imreibe

Aftermath of Vehement Argument #1,068 by Cynthia Ruth Lewis

Trip-Hammer Vitality by Lisa Nickerson

04.07.08:

The Florence of Basel, or Why Readers of Nietzsche Need to Read Burckhardt by Jeff Crouch

Slideshow by Miles J. Bell

Friends of the Poet by Sean C. Bowen

Picture Perfect by Leah Baldwin

03.24.08:

The Streak by Jeremy Hendrix

Grab Your Butts by Emme Hor

Far Away by Ashok Niyogi

Staring Down a White-Tailed Doe by Aleathia Drehmer

03.17.08:

The Hairbrush by Vernard Kennedy

Dog Days of Winter by Niall Berkeley

Poem From My Grave by Michael Lee Johnson

Mashed Potatoes and Hamburgers by Matt Finney

03.10.08:

Hard Work by Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal

Jetty Cake Pigs by J.D. Nelson

I'm Quiet in Bed by Moctezuma Johnson

Tequila Shakes by Richard Lighthouse

Kids

by Andy Riverbed

"Excuse me miss... What do you think you're doing?"

She didn't answer, she turned around and I saw her masked face. This is the dumb shit I have to deal with here; these stupid suburban kids, this goddamn mall. The biggest mall in North America! Isn't that great? I'm just another Indian, and I have to deal with these stupid kids.

What is it with this girl? Here I am doing my rounds through the Chinatown sector of the West Edmonton Mall, and what do I find? Kids, stupid suburban kids in painted face masks. Face masks with pirate skulls on 'em. They're having some sort of stupid rally. What is it? Don't their parents pay enough attention to them? What about etiquette? Don't they know this is Alberta's number one tourist attraction? Why don't they go enjoy one of the mall's many attractions; maybe World Waterpark or Galaxyland? Nooooooo... Instead they'd rather rally and do drugs. Fucking kids; what are they doing?

"Hey kids, I'm going to need you to leave right now..."

"Fuck you, you racist pig!"

And the Asian youths ran. The paper flyers spread throughout the recycled air as if a mushroom cloud, a nuclear bomb of consciousness. Once the silence returned, our Indian picked up a flyer. It read: "SARS. Don't let tainted news prejudice your mind. Know your facts!" He stood perplexed for a second and crumpled the paper, kicking it off to one side.

"Fucking suburban kids! Goddamn it!"

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Andy Riverbed once was a boy-scout leader, but, disillusioned with the bureaucratic notions of his elders, he went off to begin his own tribe; where uppers could be bottoms and the bottoms could upper the uppers. Oh yes! No more prejudice between the uppers and bottoms. All were equal and could hold any position in their sexual endeavors. Yes! Click here to view his myspace profile.

posted 01.08.07.

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