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Review of They Used to Dance on Saturday Nights by Gillian Devereux

admin@girlswithinsurance.com ({ga=zach-fishel}) — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 21:18:39 GMT

They Used to Dance on Saturday Nights, is Aforementioned Productions latest from Gillian Devereux and it is a punch in the gut. This small collection of poetry carries a spark of imagination in its throat, and reading the language is reminiscent of grit and fire igniting the page. The content of the collection focuses on the sideshow carnival acts, and the fantastical tone carries me to a Tom Waits style of readability, that grabs your hair and makes you watch the story unfold. Nobody but him has made the carnival so sexy, raw, or appealing until now. There is a little bit of everything; dancing bears, an assistant who can’t escape the clutches of a knife thrower, and the integrity to explain why though mostly it’s a hoax, the magic of desperation is real along the cheap thrills and lost souls of the side show act.

True God Damned Romance

admin@girlswithinsurance.com ({ga=jon-cass}) — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:08:29 GMT

I knew a real woman once.

We shared a love of rough, true freedom

and gritty, honest romance.

Honest romance, mind you.

Not that Hollywood, silver screen, sitcom horse-shit.

Sugarskulls and Marigolds

zach@girlswithinsurance.com (Zachary Fishel) — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:14:38 GMT

Put the fun back in funeral
—on a bumper sticker

Death's no laughing matter.

Unless you're watching
a Monty Python marathon at four in the morning and
the power goes off cuz there's a really big storm

Homage to Hemingway

admin@girlswithinsurance.com ({ga=m-balze}) — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:18:42 GMT

I cut my hair in every hotel room
on the island, shave the back of my neck
until it feels clean, like a boy's. I bend
to sweep the hair. The rest washes down the drain.

M. Balze

admin@girlswithinsurance.com (Administrator) — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:18:08 GMT

M. Balze lives in Maryland. She has been published in the “East Hampton Star.”

5 Ways to be a Shitty Parent

admin@girlswithinsurance.com ({ga=phm}) — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 01:47:35 GMT

1. When your son is sixteen and is poisoned with PCP, have him arrested.

2. When your son is seventeen and living in your second home, inform him ten days before his birthday that his gift will be a swift eviction with a bonus of his own savings. If you are his mother, use a whopping .00019% of the total child support you accrued on the little bastard to buy him a bus ticket to the other side of the Mason-Dixon. Be distracted by your sister's son's needs as he boards that $73 one-way bus out of Bangor.

GwI 3.0 Coming 11/1/11

admin@girlswithinsurance.com (Administrator) — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:26:52 GMT

Dear readers,

We've been struggling with our website for several months. We've finally taken the steps to build the new GwI, and will be unveiling it on November 1st, 2011. In the meantime, the old site will stand up, proud and stalwart, looking very 2001.

You're free to keep up with the progress of the new site (and give your feedback/wishes) here.

Yours,

The Associates

We Don't Do Take Out

admin@girlswithinsurance.com ({ga=ampruteanu-}) — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:31:50 GMT

“I come from stock tainted with anachronistic philosophical ideas,” he crowed from behind the decrepit, blackened stove while flipping a giant pancake embedded with blueberries. “See this? Some fucking stockbroker who’s about to go on with his day sodomizing the hell out of all of us is gonna eat this magnificent creation in about ten minutes.”

He pointed to the griddle with his giant head. Sweat beads had formed on his forehead and temples. “And after he’s finished fucking everybody up the ass, he’ll go home to his girlfriend and give her a Dirty Sanchez. A taste of the bourgeoisie, see.” He laughed at his own lewd metaphor and flipped the pancake one more time.

May Sarton (1912-1995)

admin@girlswithinsurance.com ({ga=girl-w-insurance}) — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 02:07:13 GMT

I get quite irritated when people say the journals are the best thing. God knows, I've struggled with certain things in the journals, especially about being a woman and about being a lesbian. The militant lesbians want me to be a militant and I'm just not.

Fall, 1983

May Sarton (1912-1995)

admin@girlswithinsurance.com ({ga=girl-w-insurance}) — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 02:07:13 GMT

I get quite irritated when people say the journals are the best thing. God knows, I've struggled with certain things in the journals, especially about being a woman and about being a lesbian. The militant lesbians want me to be a militant and I'm just not.

Fall, 1983