US Represented

Malcolm McCollum

Malcolm McCollum served in the US Army from 1964-1966. After that he taught English literature and composition, humanities and music history for 35 years at Colorado colleges and universities. During those years he also worked as a journalist, musician, bartender and criminal defense investigator. He has published Dmitri's Agenda, The Guards (poetry), My Checkered Career and The Aim Was Song (memoirs). He can be reached at zerblonski@comcast.net.

The Election Show

I wonder do you have any idea how you look and sound to normal people? Your braying and shrieking supposed to indicate sincerity, your pandering, your condescension, your invocations of The People, as if you knew any, your focus-tested, shopworn slogans, your Issues. Lead-poisoned children are not Issues. Shit gigs are not Issues. Collapsing bridges,

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The Lost Jessel/Donuts Transcripts

The Unofficial Organ  II:1 [Translator’s note: In February of 1933, the Nazi party faced an election which threatened to disappoint their hopes. Shortly before the election, the Reichstag, home of the German Chamber of Deputies, caught fire in twenty places simultaneously. The Nazis instantly blamed the Communists, though it was widely suspected that the Nazis

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