...a biannual journal of adventurous, comical, disturbing, and thought-provoking poetry and short fiction. We publish stuff sensitive enough to make the hardest hard-ass cry, funny enough to make the most hopeless brooder laugh, and disturbing enough to make us all glad we're not the author of the piece.
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Featured Poem from Nerve Cowboy #8, Fall 1999 ROTHKO I think he knew he was on the edge. He hated it but it was the only place he felt at home. But the edge is the edge and it's like that moment when Nijinsky floated poised above the stage-that long instant when there was no motion. You could have photographed him clearly with a box camera. But the edge is the edge. It's a blade and sooner or later it will cut your feet from under you and you'll fall all the way from glory into nothingness. But if you're lucky-as he was-it won't happen till you're finished. Albert Huffstickler Austin, TX
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