Since its inception in 2007, Clockwise Cat has been vociferously anti- tyranny. We are ANTIFA, if you will (even if you won’t). And for quite a while during our tenure, among our poetry and art we have also featured radical rants – towering tirades and searing satire full of bile against those who would circumscribe our freedoms.

We recently phased out those rants, re-directing our waning energies on prose poesie and more Dada-inspired verse (hence our extended title Clockwise Cat: The Dada Verse). The Cat has always been surrealist in slant, of course, and Dada and Surrealism historically have served as vivaciously vicious vehicles to vent against barbarian behavior, whether implicitly or otherwise.

ANYWAY: Lately, the US has taken a decidedly authoritarian turn. (Granted, the US government has ALWAYS been fascistic to a degree – crack open a damn history book if you look askance at that sentence.). This dismaying transmogrification from quasi-Democracy to full-on fascism is being live streamed before us, like we are all Alex DeLarge, forced to watch these horrors with pried-open eyes. Just call us Clockwork Orange Cat.

ANYWAY 2: The point is, we are living in unbelievably bleak times, likely to get far murkier before the proverbial light at the tunnel’s terminus can even be glimpsed. But we can band fiercely together through community and art, banishing the oppressive darkness as much as possible with our words, our visuals, our love. Helping to banish that brutal benightedness in Issue 46 are stanzas by Sheila Murphy, Tonia Kalouria, Patricia Carragon, Joan McNerney, among others; visual art by Shirley Smothers, Bill Wolak, Nelly Sanchez and more; and prose poesie by John Olson, Steve Carll, Heller Levinson, Karen Neuberg, Bob Heman, Catfish McDaris, J.S. Watts, Alexis Rhone Fancher, and many others! Our Featured Femme is the very clever collage poet J.I. Kleinberg!

So we welcome you, Katz and Katzettes, to Clockwise Cat: The Dada Verse Issue 46 – The FUK ICE Edition!

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