Volume 1 Issue 3

Ross Vassilev snow bunny 14 foster homes in 17 years she hopped a Greyhound to get away from the last one in the city she met a black pimp who pretended to be her friend and put her to work black pimps call white girls “snow bunnies” she tried to leave so he beat her to death the pimp’s doing life and dammit, she was only a kid. long hot summer words crawling the pages like black ants the meaning eludes me. it’s a hot vicious summer the sun barking like a dog. there's 2 workmen fixing the roof the little guy sings shot my wife gotta get outta town. it’s a hot vicious summer the flowers are choking and even Bukowski don’t help. fireworks my co-workers at the supermarket (my fellow slaves) didn’t seem to realize they were being exploited they were always cheery always showed up on time I often said to myself don’t they get it? there was one woman who worked there 40 yeahrs. a week and 35 hrs. a week at another place 52