01.03

Featuring poetry by: Laura O'Brien, Aidan Rooney, Spencer Powers, faZe, Aroon Karunamurthy, Roger L. Bagula, & Nellie Pach (introduction + 9 others). The introduction poem is by Anonymous 5.

Art by: Marcel Duchamp, Hunter33, Kasimir Malevich

Featured quotes by: Leah Thompson, Robin Dixon, Albert Camus, Aleister Crowley, Jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes

Of This Issue

There are 9 poems in the third issue of Outside In, because 9 is a play of threes. It is also one less than ten. Ten was the number for the second issue, and it has been observed that in the tri-step cycle of enlightenment, the third step is often the same as the first, the 1-0 minus 1, far enough ahead to be back to the beginning.

Samples

Quotes

"Some chicken wings are too big to come from a chicken." — Leah Thompson

"There are big chickens and there are small chickens." — Robin Dixon

"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend." — Albert Camus

"I slept with faith, and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt, and found her a virgin in the morning" - Aleister Crowley

"Once expanded to the dimensions of a larger idea, [the mind] never returns to its original size." — Jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes

Poetry

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introduction poem:

Buddhas for Sale!

Buddhas for sale!

Fancy Buddhas!

They're sitting on velvet pillows, grade A

The perfect addition for any luxurious home

A splendid corner piece

Buddhas for sale!

Plastic Buddhas!

They look crystal, you'd never know

The display cases are wrought with sterling silver

Gold gilded

Live in luxury! Buy a Buddha! Indulge!

(There's something about Dow and Dhamra too)

      — by Anonymous 5

note - the last line is not thought or spoken

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Classica

          Heroes strided through these halls

          Exquisitely proportioned we know they were

          They fought ferocious beasts and monsters

          Cerberus, Chimera, Sphinxes, Harpies

5        Hydra, Gorgons, Amazons, and Sirens

         Godesses were regular visitors to these

         Warriors, philosophers, and kings.

         They were the Renaissance men

         Before the Renaissance.

10     Time has not dimmed their glory

        Although the statues and frescoes are ferociously faded.

— by Laura O'Brien

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untitled

Something that is empty

has emptiness in it.

Emptiness is principally composed of nothing.

Nothing is nowhere, therefore it cannot vanish,

so as it vanishes, it arises somewhere else.

Nothing does not exist.

Nothing cannot vanish.

Everything can vanish.

Everything includes nothing.

— by Spencer Powers

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