Ash #09 is 44 pages created in 1992. Features some of the best zine writers of the 1990's. Lots of poetry, prose, essays, rants, artwork, collages and pictures. Edited by David R. Wyder. For mature readers only.
Ash #09 is 44 pages created in 1992. Features some of the best zine writers of the 1990's. Lots of poetry, prose, essays, rants, artwork, collages and pictures. Edited by David R. Wyder. For mature readers only.
Ash #09 is 44 pages created in 1992. Features some of the best zine writers of the 1990's. Lots of poetry, prose, essays, rants, artwork, collages and pictures. Edited by David R. Wyder. For mature readers only.
‘AS H 49 wiwreR 1992
EDITOR: DAVID R. WYDER
ASH is a publication devoted to all forms
of expression and will appear twice in 1992.
ASH welcomes your submission with an open
mind. Send me your artwork, comics, collage,
essays, poetry, prose, rants, raves, reviews
and anything else you can think of that can
be reproduced on these pages. Please send
sufficient postage if you want your material
returned.
ASH #9 is available for $2.00 in cash, check
made payable to the editor, trade, by lark
or bull semen shipped frozen and from good
and
beef stock. Direct all
requests for issues to:
DAVID R. WYDER/ASH
121 GREGORY AVE. ,#B-7
PASSAIC, NJ 07055
submissions
Back Issues of ASH #3-#8 are kept in the
freezer with the bull semen and can be
thawed out for $1.00 per issue.
IN THE ASHTRAY-Lifeline for the next issue
is July 1, 1992.
New Jersey has more autos per square mile
(699) than any other state. There are 5.9
million drivers in New Jersey. Your editor
walks but still manages to "drive" people
crazy without license or auto.
Cover and Back Cover by Blair Wilson. See
inside back cover for additional notes.
FOR MATURE READERS _
CONTRIBUTORS
JOHN M. BENNETT - COLUMBUS, OHIO
JOHN BINNS* ~ YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND
MICHAEL BROWNSTEIN ~ CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
JUDSON CREWS - ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO
JIM DeWITT* — KENTWOOD, MICHIGAN
DANTEL E - CAMERON, WISCONSIN
JOE E — RIVERTON, NEW JERSEY
JULES EIRRONE ~ FT. WAYNE, INDIANA
WALT FRANKLIN* ~ REXVILLE, NEW YORK
JOHN GREY - PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND
DAVE HASKINS* - TIVERTON, RHODE ISLAND
ROBERT HOWINGTON* - FT. WORTH, TEXAS
PHILIP HUGHES - BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
‘TODD KALINSKI - LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
RICHARD KOSTELANETZ* - NEW YORK, NEW YORK
‘THOMAS KRETZ* - ROME, ITALY
LYN LIFSHIN® ~ NISKAYUNA, NEW YORK
JAMES LINDLEY - BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON
MATTHEW LUBICH* ~ JOHNSTOWN, COLORADO
WILLIAM T. MASONIS* — LAUREL, MARYLAND
GREG McGHEE* — PATERSON, NEW JERSEY
ERROL MILLER - MONROE, LOUISTANA
TODD MOORE* ~ BELVIDERE, ILLINOIS
B.Z. NIDITCH.~ MILTON, MASSACHUSETTS
OBERC - "LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY
ANDY PLUMB* — GREENBRAE, CALIFORNIA
PROLOGUE* - BRONX, NEW YORK
JUDY ROSENBLATT* - NEW YORK, NEW YORK
DAVID ROSKOS* - NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY
ROBERT SEGARRA* ~ BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
PAUL SEMEL ~ WEST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY
GLENN SHELDON* ~ PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA
SELENA A. SHEPHARD* ~ GREENBRAE, CALIFORNIA
DAVID P. SMITH* - SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH
‘T. KILGORE SPLAKE - MUNISING, MICHIGAN
KEN STONE - PORTLANDVILLE, NEW YORK
BELINDA SUBRAMAN - EL PASO, TEXAS
JEFF SWAN = NACHES, WASHINGTON
JUDE VASSEUR* - GARFIELD, NEW JERSEY
KEN WAGNER ~ OLEAN, NEW YORK
BRYAN WESTBROOK* — FAYETIVILLE, ARKANSAS
BLAIR WILSON* ~ SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
(*First Appearance In ASH)
All rights revert to the above authors and
artists at time of publication. Payment
is one copy. Contributor discount available
for additonal copies.
aim ow PUBLISHING 1992
‘There Is No
Safe Sex’3
IESE ESSE EHD SS HSI SSIS ISIS IAI III SOI II III IIA TARAS I AA
MOTHER'S DAY CARD
Dear Mom, come home, all is forgiven.
I'm a big boy now.
What say we bury the placenta
and be friends?
Back in school whenever they'd ask
“Why so stupid, so no-account?"
I'd sing-song "I dunno!"
and sometimes mumble "Mom."
Bosses would scowl and bark
"Defective by genes or choice’
"673-9507" I'd smile,
giving them your phone.
My wife would muster tears and wail
“Why can't you behave? Grow up!
I'd point to my navel and shrug.
‘Those days are ancient history.
Put ‘er there, old womb of destiny!
Your egg-laying days now on the shelf,
no threat is poised generations to come.
Drop by any time, meet the wife and kids.
‘Their presents to me this Father's Day
you wouldn't believe.
Or maybe you would.
PHILIP HUGHES
‘THE RIBBON
On a Sunday in the hunting season
I discovered a roadside willow tree
From which the brisk wind stirred
Dangling privates of a whitetail deer.
At first I thought it strange
Fruit of city hunters
Marking passage here like a dog
Lifting its leg on a fire hydrant
then recalled the story of
A "Nam vet who, upon returning
To the pride of folks who knew
Only that he'd done his job
Resumed his love for hunting.
Soon the neighbors learned
We had pinned the privates of
A buck deer to a tree
As he had done with genitals of
an enemy in war.
I stood before the penis,
Testacles, tab of belly skin—
A ribbon tied to a gift
For the wind— knowing it belonged
To more than a slaughtered deer.
WALT FRANKLIN
FERRER EEE a AAA A AA IAA A A AIA IAS AAAI III IAAI