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Occupy Nothing
Not many people consider this person their friend, I’m one of the unlucky few. We got drunk with homeless people in tents outside city hall in the frigid air last fall. The movement fell apart, and...
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Rotting in a Bucket
Perhaps this “nature” is forced upon ourselves. Fantasy and reality seemingly collide. A single idea indoctrinated by a certain privileged minority cannot forever decide the fate, in a figurative sort...
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Sol, Chapter 6: Awaken Into Another Time and Place
Welcome Daniel, you are in The Asteroid Belt, what a literal, simplistic name isn’t it… we are located within one of many scattered waypoints tucked inside these hollow floating rocks. The exteriors of...
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Why the “Middle Class” is Revered in Anglo-American Societies
Great Britain’s liberal political structure in the eighteenth century provided a comfortable social environment for the first wave of modern industry in Europe. British social customs were clearly...
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Self
that fucking smug look seen on one too many a face will transform the most docile being into a murderous monstrosity it renders justification useless I climbed the tree on the edge of that all too...
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Eager Yet Unprepared: The Problematic Process of Deploying American Armed Forces
Politics in the United States of America at the turn of the twentieth century was often volatile and contradictory: on one end of the spectrum, the progressives called for domestic stability through...
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Night of the World, Morning of the Universe: A Gleam of Hope in a Vapid...
It appears that a superficial orientation to any subject is rampantly extant as a buyer’s catalog/introductory for masses of consumers that are indeed introduced, yet are never fully immersed. Yes,...
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When You Were Young You Made Mistakes and Never Learned From Them
reaching an impasse with blackness an eternal abyss too many nights spent with strangers avoiding bliss no home to have too broken to think succinctly and leaking quicker generosity breathes...
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I Hear America Sighing (Sequel to Whitman’s “I Hear America Singing”)
I hear America sighing, the different moans I hear Those of teachers, each one sighing as it should be strong The secretary sighing with redundancy The programmer sighing, repeating abstractions The...
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No Initiation
formless formalities desiring, deserving city tribes calling light-skins dripping money has been a few months since letters and words approached chasing meaning dreadful still dreaming on concrete...
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The Revolution That Was Not: The French Student Revolt of 1968
The students that rebelled against the French University in May of 1968 caused a series of events that seemed to come full circle in a matter of only a few weeks. Within the first week student protests...
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Invitation/Incantation
America, a party that Never stops The insolent child Dripped in acrid yellow Deliberately This is preceded By a yawn A prophetic jeer Bored of its Own excess This is ridiculous It says, while carrying...
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Numbers in the Air (first draft)
[Scene 1] -Interior, inner city, early twentieth century run-down brick building. Empty except for one patron, a young man whose dirty yet clean shaven face makes it look like he is ambivalent about...
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Philadelphia Psychosis Chapter 2
Later that night, while walking back home from work, Dave decided to venture the extra four blocks to the beer store on the corner of 9th and Washington even though he was exhausted. He made up his...
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Plongeur
These fingers have grasped ceramic and glass, turning and scrubbing dishes and instruments of consumption. These hands have been immersed in hot and murky fetid water, working and toiling until the...
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The Rise of Modernity (and Proto-Feminism) in the Italian Renaissance
Baldassare Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier exemplified Italian Renaissance humanist ideals by making use of the author’s own memory of conversations in court at Urbino. Although Castiglione...
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Bella Vista
Is he sleeping now in his chair by the alley? Is he passed out cold with a warm beer can in his hand? He’s in the open air where strangers walk idly chatting drunk like him at 2 am, but not yet at the...
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An Introduction
The following is the foreword to Rocky Wilson’s upcoming book of poetry, which will be published by Whirlwind Press. It was a pleasure editing and collating Rocky’s poems for this collection. Mr....
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Whirlwind Magazine Issue #1
All summer I’ve been working on Whirlwind Press’s magazine release, and finally here it is. This issue collects poems and art together from a diverse range of voices, all of which bear witness to...
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