Issue 34 is live! | The crack in my armor by Michael Nagle
On acid I like to ask Alex questions like: “On a scale of 1 to person, are you a person?”
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Issue 34 Highlights
Happy Pride! 🏳️🌈 and welcome to Issue 34, with the consciousness-expanding essay The crack in my armor by featured writer Michael Nagle; I Spy by featured artist Jane Demarest; and four new pieces by our curated teams: writers Melissa Leto, Jesse Sorrell, Deborah Stein, Swati Sudarsan; and artists Sorcha McNamara, and Michel O’Hara.
This month’s featured artist Michael Nagle splits his time between California and Portland, Oregon, and is currently undergoing treatment for metastatic colon cancer in his hometown of Los Angeles. The happiest time in his life was as an educator designing and running an alternative school in Cambridge, MA.
The crack in my armor by Michael Nagle
“Do you have any tobacco?” I asked Alex.
“No, it’s like peanut butter or ketamine,” he said. Meaning: if I kept any around I’d eat it all.
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I like to smoke when I trip. I wanted to trip because Dad’s second death anniversary was coming up on the approaching Sunday. And if there was any way to remember Dad, it was acid.
“I don’t want a funeral. I want people to be having a good time!” — what he used to say of his then-future death.
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On acid I like to ask Alex questions like: “On a scale of 1 to person, are you a person?”
“Uh,” he said. It was now the second death anniversary trip — we were in a beautiful home, surrounded by forests and roving packs of deer, a few hours north of the San Francisco Bay Area. His earnestness was fully audible. “That question is just too big for me right now.”
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Acid is my cosmic washing machine. You stick yourself in and go round and round, the speed of thought revving up and up, the washing machine spinning faster and faster, and then BAM, out you come! Clean as the universe…
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Michael! Brilliant as always.❤️