Happy “Muse” Year from The Juice Bar!!

We love you, artists, writers, shutter bugs, jitter bugs, mugs, thugs, socialites, loners, moaners,

lion tamers, piano players, tightrope walkers, bellyachers, vampires, voo doo dolls &

voo doo daddies, misfits, violin players, gypsies, drama queens, rock climbers, graffiti artists, glass blowers, brick layers, sooth sayers, cake bakers, suzy-homemakers, rock n rollers, bowlers, arm wrestlers, gate crashers, myth bashers, cynics, mimics, clowns, jugglers, under dogs, smugglers, grifters, paupers, pilots, co-pilots, tramps, vamps, champs, do-si-do-ers & do-gooders, frogs, princes, pen pals

& poets!!!

HAVE A JUICY NEW YEAR AND THANKS FOR SQUEEZING THE JUICE BAR!!!

L. K. Thayer

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“Frozen” by L. K. Thayer

I am blue
in a pink paisley
playground
I have run amok
and I am
run
down
I’m a high rise
with lots of
short
stories
and
I want out of
this cheap suit
that no
longer
suits me

I’m tired of this
thin fabrication
unraveling
and hiding
like lint
in my navel

my wind shield
needs
washing
my leverage is
slipping
and the wolf is
snarling
at my heels

my mind is in
shrink wrap
groping for
zip-lock
at a
Tupperware
party

my freshness
is
frozen
and winter
is

falling

L. K. Thayer

Photo by VC Ferry

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Tamara de Lempicka

Self-Portrait in the Green Bugatti

“Life is like a journey, pack just what you need, since you must make room for what you pick up

on the way. The beginning doesn’t matter, as long as there is a good end.”

-Tamara de Lempicka

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Juicy Quote

“Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother’s womb.”

-Jean Arp

“White Chocolate” by Stephen Kalinich

I am white chocolate
you can call me yellow
you can call me red
you can call me Chicano
Mexican
African American
European
I have starved
I have been beaten
I have fucked up my life
I fudge bar
blue berry binge boy
cottage cheese muncher
diabetic
glucose meter 70
at 3 am.

Stephen Kalinich

Photo by John Longenecker

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“In This Heart” by L. K. Thayer

Photo by Alexis Rhone Fancher

in this heart
my twisting mind
has missed
a beat
I must tend
my
wounds
like a rose
and mend
the
petals
where the
thorns have
torn and
pierced
thy
wanting
ways

L. K. Thayer

Photo by VC Ferry

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“Poem For Alexis” by Judi Kaufman

Photo by L. K. Thayer

Dear Dear Alexis, “I am going back into you and your wonder words served in extra wide world of Martini glasses, at The Juice Bar.”

Found a glass with a navy blue tear
Must been made of that thick ocean near your home at the beach
Six waves wide this glass I found
Wasn’t for sale
Just for staring and mediation
Life of a young man
A mediating man
And his mom
Making a life for all her
Olives
There is courageous RED in all of them

I LOVE THE RED IN YOU.

jfk

JUDI KAUFMAN

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“Reply to VC & L.K.’s Return” by Mitch Hicks

‘Snap’ by Mitch Hicks

U.K.

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Juicy Quote

“I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.”

-Janet Flanner

“Your Ghost” by Vicky Hamilton

The pumpkin full moon,
Rose over the mountain,
To smile that crooked smile.

I heard your words
Ring in my head,
Love like daylight always dies.

The ocean roared,
Behind my heels,
Like a angry lion in pain.

I turned around,
Quick enough,
To watch your ghost walk by,
In the rain.

Vicky Hamilton

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