Free Lunch--Most Recent Issue

Issue 42, Autumn 2009

The Board of Directors of Free Lunch Arts Alliance regrets to inform you that Number 42 of Free Lunch will be its final issue. Ron Offen, the editor and founder of Free Lunch, has health issues that prevent him from continuing the magazine.

Contains Poems By

Link to featured poets
from previous issues

Gilbert Allen
Ann Applegarth
Robert Bense
Shirley J. Brewer
Geordie de Boer
Richard Dinges Jr.
George Drew
Tyler Farrell
David Filer
Terry Godbey
William Greenway
Tim Hunt
Arthur Winfield Knight
Ann B. Knox
Mary Lucina

Kathleen M. McCann
Louis McKee
Mark Mendizza
Greg Moglia
William Page
T.P. Perrin
Frank Poliate
David Pratt
Thor Rinden
| Joan I. Siegel
Diane Stone
Kevin Sweeney
Tony Tracy
Ronald Wallace
A. D. Winans

From this issue......

My Guardian Biped

Absolutely no talking cats!
--submission guideline

Yes He can, yes He can,
He can open that can.
Open He can

most anything, even
His notsnout, even
this carpeted heaven

He stalks--like He's ready
to sprint up a tree
with pure joie de vivre.

But High Muckamuck
moves in slow motion--stuck
on two legs. The poor shmuck.

And His tongue couldn't tweeze
this Lilac Burmese
to pluck out the fleas.

Though it never unwraps
to sandpaper His lips,
it endlessly flaps.

Now He folds, in midair,
to conform to His Chair.
That stare. That stare.

He wants me, right there,
for a lap dance. Oh dear.
That hide with no fur

on One that can't purr.