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Hey all!  Just moved yet again (back into the Drafty Attic), so the September issue of High Coup Journal won't be up at a prompt 12:00 AM... but it will be up on the 1st, probably in the evening.

Hope you enjoy (when it shows up)!

--Miller

High Coup Journal - August 2011 Issue

(Photo by Ann Wright, Plymouth, IN)

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IN THIS ISSUE:

Brian Barnett (Frankfort, KY)

Sara Bickley (West Carrollton, OH)

Samuel Franklin (Terre Haute, IN)

Annie Perconti (Louisville, KY)

Melissa Reddish (Salisbury, MD)

Morgan Shnier (Tuscon, AZ)

Adam Tetelman (Troy, NY)

Henry Visotski (Brooklyn, NY)

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Editor's Note:

In a balance scale,

cries for heat and cries for snow

wobble to and fro.

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Morgan Shnier

i set each alarm

five hundred thirty-five clocks

i'm still late for work

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Adam Tetelman

All chaos breaks loose

Every man for himself

The network is down!

Certain doom awaits

This requires sacrifice

Send out the intern

A pair of black pants

A lecture at the chalkboard

A pair of white pants

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Brian Barnett

 

Bela Lugosi

 

He does not drink...wine

Make his a shot of morphine

Bela feels no pain

 

 

Zombie Apocalypse on Sesame Street

 

Burt in riot gear

Big Bird slain twice by head-shots

Elmo ate Grover

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Annie Perconti

there is a moment

between inhale and exhale

where all my lies stop.

I already know

that the tongue cannot create

what I hold for you.

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Melissa Reddish

He’s the kind of guy

who smirks when I eat a peach.

Yes, you know the one.

 

The rankest odor

on the face of this green earth:

A goddamn dog fart.

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Henry Visotski

 

Scent of bleach and piss,

Sleeping bum, loud shrew with cell.

Wish I drove to work.

  

The neighbor’s poodle,

While neutered as a puppy,

Still molests my leg

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Sara Bickley

Cappuccino and

cigarettes on the hottest

day so far this year.

Sunburn stops hurting

two days after you get back.

Then it starts peeling.

After this pack I

quit smoking.  I will have to

drink even faster.

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Samuel Franklin

Summer Storm

Torrential rainfall-- 

helluva water balloon 

fight up in Heaven. 

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August 2011 AWESOME SAUCE: Sara Bickley

All the girls in their

summer dresses, showing off

their year-round tattoos.

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Tryyyyyyy to remeeeeeember

a time in Septeeeeeember when

you sent in haiku!

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