Half our moon
is rocky & rough
& the dark side
is oh so smooth

here’s our theory why

if the moon was formed
from early Earth,
planetary collisions
exploded Thorium,

radioactively unstable,
& generated heat
on early moon
during decay

that reduced rocks
& smoothed
half
our moon

We fight for our lives,
saving ourselves from viruses—
but now I hear
positively charged
Manganese complexes
protect human proteins
but NOT virus DNA—
making Manganese
antioxidant vaccines
sterilize microscopic bugs,
helping our insides run
& manning the frontlines
to save us too

Coca-Cola may have once contained cocaine,
but the original 7 Up had Lithium citrate —
to medicate mood swings. The Howdy Corp
made Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda,
then Howdy became 7 Up. Lithium soda
became illegal, but don’t worry. We’ll
still subvert the system for drugs.

Here, it’s true, you need Facebook, but you don’t need Zoom and you don’t need Skype -- you can join any way you’d like through this Facebook event page.

The “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” Facebook event page will become open to the public for posts directly ON the page by its usual start time, 3:30 PM CST Sunday, June 7, 2020. Share your creativity with writings posts during the event - audio and video can also be uploaded directly to the page - share videos either as live Facebook videos, or any videos uploaded DURING the event. We provide this space for anyone and everyone (even people outside of Austin) to share their poetry or prose or music! Also, unlike the 3-poem limit AT Recycled Reads, writing posts, audio, and video feeds can be longer for this meeting page as well.

Janet Kuypers will read poetry in Live Facebook videos from her library at home (since we cannot be among the bookshelves at Recycled Reads this month), and videos of the readings will also upload later. Also, whatever cannot be read in the 2-hour open mic time period will then be read in a “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 BONUS home edition”! So everyone, stay safe, and let our creative juices flow!

The “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” Facebook event page will become open to the public for posts directly ON the page at its usual start time, 3:30 PM CST Sunday, June 7, 2020. Share your creativity with writings posts during the event - audio and video can also be uploaded directly to the page - share videos either as live Facebook videos, or any videos uploaded DURING the event. We provide this space for anyone and everyone (even people outside of Austin) to share their poetry or prose or music! Also, unlike the 3-poem limit AT Recycled Reads, writing posts, audio, and video feeds can be longer for this meeting page as well.

Janet Kuypers will read poetry in Live Facebook videos from her library at home (since we cannot be among the bookshelves at Recycled Reads this month), and videos of the readings will also upload later. Also, whatever cannot be read in the 2-hour open mic time period will then be read in a “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 BONUS home edition”! So everyone, stay safe, and let our creative juices flow!

With these Coronavirus/Covid 19 times is greatly increased Amazon sales. This month, even though we sent for a proof copy of the June issues at our normal time, Amazon explained (even after we pay extra for expedited next day delivery) that they cannot get proof copies to us until June 3rd, after the usual release date of the first of the month.

There is usually not a problem with the physical proof copies that we review, but we want to make sure there are no errors in the books before we officially release them. So we hope everyone understands our dilemma this month when we explain that the release of the next issue may be a few days late.

We will notify all contributors and subscribers when it is officially approved and released, and we will post it on Facebook when the online and print issues are available as well... thank you for understanding, and again, stay safe, and thank you for being a part of the Scars Publications community through cc&d and Down in the Dirt magazines.