TRUTH IN ADVERTISING
A poem by Patricia Fillingham
Not a single car ad on tv
Has a vehicle moving slowly.
All are racing
Through woods,
Through rain,
Especially through snow.
One car is swerving on a dry
racked expanse.
Throwing up clouds of dust –
Surely a bad ecological decision.
What feeble-minded viewer
Will look at those ads and say
“Wow! That car
Will really get me around!”
Disregarding his usual commute
At 20 miles per hour
Down a crowded interstate.
Fall 2007 Poetry
.ETCETERA by Ron Miraflores
Featured Poet: Judson Hamilton
Editor’s Choice: Michael Ogletree
TRUTH IN ADVERTISING by Patricia Fillingham
PAMONA HILLS by Daniel Wilcox
YOU AND LANGSTON HUGHES by Rosemary
Pennington
QUIET ASYLUM by Candy Tothill
THE TRAVELER AWAKES. HER TRAIN AWAKES
by Nick Courtright
DYING ALONE by Helen Peterson
THE LIE by Daniel S. Irwin
NEWSPAPER PHOTOS OF THE BROKEN WORLD by
Donna Munro
OCCUPIED TILL I DIE by J. Alan Nelson
BECAUSE LOVE IS LIKE THE SHORTEST DAY by
Dave Migman
YOUR EYES ARE by Jennifer Bowles
OF BEAUTIFUL SOULS by David McLean
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