day THREE HUNDRED and SEVENTY SEVEN

Fat man profile narration

“He’s been maimed-

beyond all recognition.”

said over his corpse

 but not dead

may as well be

a Hitchcock sonata

of murder, most foul

carnal anatomy

with a hint of vertigo deception

--Mike Zone

day THREE HUNDRED and SEVENTY SIX

Expect

Larry Nassar was a doctor so we trusted him.

We didn’t think he would hurt those girls

not with their mothers so close by

not with them only being 11 or 12 or 13

(one

as young

as six)

but we were wrong

and now we know

as one woman, after another

grown but still cracked

talked about how

all those years ago

he laid hands on her perfect knees

parted her small legs

and forced his way inside

and how they carried it

the way women learn to carry the pain

of men betraying them

of men taking what they want.

One after another they lined up

160 women

who were girls

whose lives went spinning horribly out of control.

And even those women who were gone

who ended their own lives instead of live with

the memories of his touch

so unwanted

so violent

they had their mothers and fathers there to speak for them.

And I couldn’t help but notice how much smaller the outrage was.

I remember when we all found out about the football coach

who abused those boys.

The shock and horror, the outrage, the think pieces

and I waited and waited

but this time nothing came.

Not one essay, not one opinion piece about the man

who ruined 160 lives over 20 years

or the institutions and people that protected him

and then I realized why.

We are horrified when our boys are raped.

but

we expect it

for our girls.

--Ally Malinenko

day THREE HUNDRED and SEVENTY FIVE

SHITHOLE PRESIDENT

PHOTO BY JOHN GROCHALSKI

day THREE HUNDRED and SEVENTY FOUR

dicks in red hats

even a happy whistle still hisses

in the tall grass of this town

these people are more snake

than songbird

forked tongues flicking at a rising sun

--Victor Clevenger

day THREE HUNDRED and SEVENTY THREE

St. John Minadeo

Whenever I see a crossing guard’s bright yellow raincoat,

I think of St. John Minadeo—

            the car, brakes failed, rolling out of control down Hazelwood Avenue;

                        the driver, honking, flailing one arm out the window;

John, pushing the last classmate out of the way—

a split second before martyrdom.

And I think of what it means to make this city my home,

and of the time before it was decided

that mending the seams that sew our world together

was just too taxing,

and that it was a good idea to take care of things

just like St. John Minadeo did.

--Matthew Ussia

Matt Ussia is sentient organic matter, an academic, soft core punk, theremin player, photo-blogger, and podcaster who lives in Pittsburgh.

WineDrunk SideWalk : ShipWrecked in TrumpLand week FIFTY THREE wrap up

So.....how 'bout that shutdown, huh? Blink and you would've missed it....the democratic party is a weak and anemic party...but i didn't expect them to buckle this quickly....especially to a GOP party run by domestic terrorists and headed by a rapist/racist like Donald Trump....but cave they did. They caved to the hollow promises of Mitch McConnell. They caved to the hollow words of an Alt-right lapdog like Paul Ryan. They caved to an idiotic monster like Donald Trump....and we'll all have our crooked government going until February 8th...enough time for the democratic party to cave even further, if possible.

Or to be honest I don't really know what in the fuck is going on....did Chuck Schumer offer that fat racist 25 billion for his "wall" in exchange for other immigration considerations...or did he not. I guess it depends on what lying side of the aisle you believe.  The real truth to all of this is that both Republicans and Democrats are fucking with the citizens of this nation. They're fucking with people who need federal government services, fucking with people who receive a paycheck from the federal government...and they're fucking with the fates and futures of 800,000 Dreamers.

For those of you walking around with your dicks all hard for November 2018....let this be all be a cautionary tale.

Jeffy "the racist" Session has to distinction of becoming the first member of DOUCHE's cabinet to have been interviewed by Robert Mueller in the ongoing investigation into Russian/Trump collusion in the 2016 election....congrats, Jeffy! You little racist worm! Apparently the interview focused on whether or not DOUCHE was fit for the office of presidency and whether or not that fat, orange Racist CHEETO had obstructed justice at various points....christ, Mueller must be tired of hearing the same horseshit over and over again from these treasonous swine....and one need only read Donny John's tweets to see that he obstructed justice. All the same let's hope Jeffy "the racist dwarf" spends more and more time with Mueller....maybe it'll stop him from this bullshit

yet....we press on. And I guess if any good came from ol' Jeffy/Cheeto/Sanctuary cities it's that 23 mayors refused to meet with our Rapist/Racist-in-Chief.

...Who is apparently "willing and eager" to sit down and have a little chat with Robert Mueller...maybe Jeffy told Donny John just how "fun" it was to be grilled about being a treasonous piece of garbage, and the orange nutbag just can't wait....or maybe this is what Trump is supposed to say when under the gun for collusion and obstruction of justice.  All the same "president" DOUCHE is still insistent that there was no collusion with the Russians even though more and more each day...guess what, Cheeto-man....it's looking like there was.

This week we turn away, for a moment, from the rapist running our nation in the ground, to the rapist who was just sentenced to 40 to 170 years in prison for raping and sexually assaulting over 150 women. On Wednesday former doctor to the American gymnastics team, a piece of human garbage who goes by the name Lawrence G. Nassar, had his "death warrent" signed by Judge Rosemarie Aquilina after a lifelong career of sexually assaulting and abusing girls as young as 6, that's right, FUCKING SIX YEARS OLD, under the guise of giving them medical examinations.  This Nassar is a real winner.  Not only was he convicted of assault 7 of the 150+ girls that he assaulted, this crown "jewel" of the patriarchy is already serving 60 years for an unrelated child pornography charge.

You know, I was telling my wife this morning that this trial sort of "snuck up" on me, that I wasn't paying much attention to it.  Then we discussed Nassar's trail versus the Jerry Sandusky trails, and how it seemed that Sandusky was much more in the media....my wife, ever the wise artist that she is, made mention of the fact that Sandusky sexually assaulted boys where Nassar assaulted girls.....like we EXPECT it to happen to girls.

Think about that.  I know that I am.

and from one sexual offender we toggle back to our Sexual Offender-in-Chief

Donny John says there's a path open to making the Dreamers legal citizens....well, hallelujah. Now, this plan is a 10 to 12 years plan of people doing "good work" whatever in the hell that means....but for those of you out there who are thinking that the Grinch's heart grew three sizes on Wednesday...think again.....this deal only works if Donny John gets his "way under budget" 25 billion for his boarder wall and an additional 5 billions for beefed up security.....which, at least in my humble opinion....brings us right back to where we were earlier in this week with the NoWall/No Dreamers whining session between Trump and Schumer.

Asshole is at something called DAVOS this week...or rather it's a place....in Switzerland. And while he's making an ass out of himself there pushing his "America First" agenda, railing against "fake news" to the international community, and hunting down  the best Quarter Pounder on the other side of the Atlantic, word came out on Friday that DOUCHE actually DID, in fact, try to have special counsel Robert Mueller fired back in June but backed off after White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn refused to ask the DOJ to do such a thing......I don't really know what to think here. On the one hand it shows that DOUCHE was really willing to go that far to undermine democracy even further than he and Putin already had done together....but, on the other hand, I'm sort of taken aback but the moron's restraint.  That doesn't seem like Trump at all.....one wonders if Ivanka was in the room wearing something fetching whilst bending over to pick something up.....Donny John is very very easily distracted.

Well...that's it for me.  On the heads up front....WineDrunk SideWalk is going to be having it's OWN women's MARCH.  In the month of March the blog is being turned over to Ally Malinenko and the writing/art/wrap ups you see/read on here will all be done by women. For more details click HERE

but stick around...today at 10:30 we have the poetry of Matthew Ussia. And tomorrow we got the work of Victor Clevenger.

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day THREE HUNDRED and SEVENTY TWO

his addiction to self destruction

they will never learn
greed grabs the brain
holds reason hostage

the Bush bunch
gave the keys
to the super rich

almost took down
the world with
unbridled greed

now with their
heads in the
gutter again

and a man
sopped in the
sin of wealth

they are ready
to go down
that hole again

this time to
annihilate
the earth

--Thomas R. Thomas

day THREE HUNDRED and SEVENTY ONE

Bear

What you have learned

is how to bear it.

How to shift and move with it.

How to stop and see the sky

lit up, the moon seemingly so close

that you could reach right out and pluck it from the sky

hold it in your hands, slip it under your tongue.

The way the winter freezes everything into a stillness

the way you know the spring will come back

the slightest bud finding a way

tunneling through the dark

to unfurl in the light

the way life finds a way

the way you can bear it

the sadness and grief

and pain

a stone you move from hip to hip

the way you think you’ll be broken

the way the news comes in wave after wave

the way you shake your head

and dig in, trying to bail out this sinking boat of a nation.

Fathers torn from their families, plucked like a blossom

and packaged away.

Do not look away.

Learn to bear it.

Just like when you wake in the night

feeling the passage of time

knowing that you only have so many days

that you only have so much time.

You reach out, fingers sliding over sheets

praying that they will fall upon another body

another voice

someone else to tell you,

Yes, you too can bear this.

 --Ally Malinenko

day THREE HUNDRED and SEVENTY

the kind racist

catches me and the wife

making a cardinal traveling no-no

pressed against a building

map open wide in the wind

he comes across the street

with his bike helmet and bike

asks us what he already knows

are you lost?

not really but street names in dublin

change on a dime

he says i’ll walk you there

the big kilmainham gaol

where ireland was born

in the puddles of revolutionary blood

we don’t really need him

but oh what a kind old man

and that irish accent that gets you every time

of course he asks about the guns in america

it always comes down to the guns

he hopes donald trump is a success

trump is going to build a wall to keep the mexicans out

the idea makes his irish eyes smile

our little leprechaun guide says it’s the pakis here

and he points out a couple of young arabs kissing

the pakis and the blacks

nigerians littering st. stephen’s blessed green

the darkest person you used

to see around here, he says, was a bloody italian

yes, he hopes trump fixes them all for us kids in the states

make america great again

maybe ireland too

and the mexicans and the pakis and the blacks

will disappear in a puff of magic smoke

like we and they never happened to each other at all

when we get to the gaol

i try to give him two euro for his trouble

for a pint or to add to his pot of gold

but he waves me off

points to my wife and says

buy the lady a cup of coffee

a true irish gentleman if ever there was one

biking off down south circular road

and hopefully turning the bend

into the dustbins of history.                                                    

--John Grochalski

day THREE HUNDRED and SIXTY NINE

Caught With Their Pants Down

every famous man on the planet
is confessing to sex crimes that
aren't being prosecuted, but so
many of them are artists and
left wing politicians. the other
creeps are on the other side
of the aisle and include the
Commander in Grope.
So as they stand there
with their trousers collapsed
around their ankles in front
of us all we allow these
thugs in office to keep up
the good work while they
continue to rape women
and starving people
including artists
and have also raped
the United States
of America, who took
hush money but will
someday come forward
with her story.

--Kevin Ridgeway

day THREE HUNDRED and SIXTY EIGHT

nobody wants this stink

forced down the throat

of a toilet bowl

yesterday

my morning shit

was peachy orange

not a bright peach    

not a bright orange    

a burnt color smeared on paper

the porcelain refused

to swallow it voluntarily

i felt guilty

walking back into the room

with a plunger

in my hand

like i worked for

fox news

--Victor Clevenger