Hello!
Mellow yellow midyear fun is up like the sun in Home Planet 15 with poetry by Joan E. Bauer, Ace Boggess, Salvador Espriu, Ken Gosse, John Grey, J.M. Hall, Anne Lévesque, Donald Mangum, Bruce McRae, William Waters, & Yuan Changming; fiction by Joe Del Castillo & Christopher Woods; visual art by Irina Tall; & songs by R.G. Evans. Many thanks to all our contributors!
Summer’s almost upon us here in the Empire of the North. For those in the southern hemisphere, winter’s rapidly approaching. Absolute madness! How can we as people ever hope to get along if we can’t as much as agree on the season? Let us come together now as one & say no to the powers above & below that tilt the earth against us to divide us into north & south, east & west, ups & downs, left & right, right & wrong, sun & moon, fall & spring, stars & rain, space & time, town & country, fair & balanced, big & tall, back & front, front & center, back & to the left, back & to the left, hem & haw, bait & switch, sit & stew, hurry up & wait, far & wee, us & them, peace & love, war & peace, darkness & light, black & white, might & magic, Mary & Martha, mix & match, Le rouge et le noir, shirts & skins, the old in & out, to & fro, Bugs & Daffy, slow & steady, shipping & handling, turn & cough, plug & play, chapter & verse, bump & grind, gin & tonic, Sonic & Knuckles, skin & bones, Smith & Jones, room & board, field & stream, The Naked & the Dead, Bill & Ted, Tom & Viv, the thrill of victory & the agony of defeat, meet & greet, great & small, The Valley of the Dolls & Return to the Valley of the Dolls, suds & duds, flesh & feather, squeal & squawk, walk & talk, one & done, do’s & don’ts, stop & stare, wash & wear, rinse & repeat, compare & contrast, twist & shout, Chase & Sanborn, neocons & neoliberals, one & the same, copy & paste, shop & save, Bob & Ray, yin & yang, young & old, you & me, Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, dogs & cats, scratch & sniff, surf & turf, search & destroy, Gary Lewis & the Playboys (p. 11), good & bad, heaven & hell, fear & loathing, yes & no, odi et amo, alas & alack, Joan of Arc & the Cardinal of Winchester, the known knowns & the known unknowns, live & learn, death & taxes, the haves & have mores, the have nots & have lesses, fat & lean, dine & dash, crash & burn, Martini & Rossi (p. 104), kiss & tell, Beck & Björk, forks & sporks, heat & serve, raw & cooked, so forth & so on, these & infinite other structuralist traps, Lévi-Strauss & his ilk-fitting jeans be damned!
I don’t know how many people make it a habit to read the editor’s note here or in other magazines, but to those reading this, I humbly thank you & invite you to kick back & enjoy Home Planet!
Many thanks!
Matt