Shut Down by Ian Lewis Copestick

Sometimes life, and
the people you have
to share it with just
bring you down so
much that the only
thing that you can
do in psychic self
defence is neck
back a bottle of
whisky. Or take any
drug that you can
lay your hands on.
I know that these
things are stupid,
and won't help you
at all, but every now
and then you just
get so low that you
need to shut your
brain down for an
hour or two.
I can feel a shut down
coming on.

Ian Lewis Copestick is a 46 year old writer (I prefer that term to poet ) from Stoke on Trent, England. I spend most of my life sitting,  thinking then sometimes writing. I have been published in Anti Heroin Chic, the Dope Fiend Daily, Outlaw Poetry, Synchronized Chaos, the Rye Whiskey Review, Medusa's Kitchen and Horror Sleaze Trash.

Glib Minions. By Kevin M. Hibshman

I shall never be one of the glib minions, perpetually comatose, lying prostrate at some so-called 

leader's feet.

Happily deceived, they pledge their feeble allegiance to HE who promises to smite any enemy their 

rotted imaginations can conceive.

I wonder if when future generations gaze back upon our blemished history, 

Will they shake their heads in utter disbelief at how we once allowed a cowardly mob of madmen

to rob us of our pride, purpose and dignity?

Kevin M. Hibshman has had poems published in many journals and magazines world wide.

 In addition, he has edited his poetry zine, Fearless, since 1990 and is the author of sixteen chapbooks including Love Sex Death Dreams (Green Bean Press, 2000) and Incessant Shining (Alternating Current, 2011).