See what I did with “hijinks” because I smoke pot and getting high and engaging in tomfoolery is funny…even funnier when you pun it up.

It’s that time again… call for submissions…yes, creative work, submitting and publishing are considered hijinks here at the BIONIK PU$$Y and are only “high-jinks” post editing and when we engage in our own out of bounds tomfoolery that may or may not make it here.

Check out our submissions page for details and all that jazz…

The second volume is off the hook so far at over 100 pages and we may go double and start publishing quarterly starting in March with new content featuring interviews and experimental articles of sorts.

Which brings me to the “and such” part of this post…

Obnoxious Slouch Beanie Guy from the DFP days is officially gone..yeah I’m still obnoxious and wear a slouch beanie but not all the time…it’s a new era to shift gears into what I’ve not only been wanting to do all these years but the fragments seem to be organically aligning in a way I didn’t think possible….

I work close to 60 hours a week in the cannabis industry. This has been a wakeup call for me, finding a job I really enjoy that I don’t mind investing a substantial amount time away from the indie press to live a better quality of life. Still a minimalist and not a materialistic asshole but I’ve had to adjust and make some changes with my own chronic health issue while caring for an aging and ailing father which has aroused me to become contemplative and reflective the last couple of months.

BP is not shutting down.

It’s going to continue as a publication, Mike Zone will also be known as MISTER PU$$Y…it’s like being obnoxious slouch beanie guy but less so?

I don’t fucking know and probably won’t know for another quarter of a year.

However I am shifting gears as a writer…primarily known as a working class poet/writer…yeah I’m still that but don’t expect anymore poetry collections or as many publication appearances in the indie press as the bulk of my poetry run was manic fits of aggressive ruminating therapy in which a lot has been worked out.

I still like to write it when inspired…Mike Zone isn’t just a poet. Mike Zone was an aspiring screenwriter who got involved in the small press to make a name but found passion, a sense of self, healing and unity on the fringes of society both nationally and internationally.

So who is Mike Zone now? WRITER/PUBLISHER/DOCUMENTARIAN…. I’m here to chronicle stories both fiction and otherwise, perhaps a blend of both with a gonzo sense of journalism which is more based on physics in which you cannot understand nor properly observe an event unless being a part of said event. Bet, that gets your reality hunger all tingly…

I’m going to attempt bad video projects on a budget. I don’t care. I worship at the feet of Roger Corman. Maybe I’ll even do one more painting further enforce why I shouldn’t be a visual artist.

There will a video series and wonderfully disturbing podcast eventually but these things will take time as we gather new players and see where fate launches us.

That being said as an individual I have to draw boundaries for my own mental health…

My job and well being come first. Just leaving that as is.

BIONIK PU$$Y is a close second. The publication. The site. The submissions and overall tasks involved.

My own creative work. When I ran DFP and was trying to launch an even bigger endeavor with DEADSTAR: CONTROL a lot was left by the wayside and never again. The experience has forced me to reconsider my moniker as a poet in which I strived to get published at least twice a month. After 12 books and over 320 publications, including being featured in a documentary and having a song adapted into a poem (RAILROAD EARTH by BROTHERWELL) I think we’ve made our point about what poetry can do at least for me and it’s time to give other people a platform to herald their work..so CLIMB INTO THE SUN published by CRYING HEART PRESS will be my last collection via chapbook. Though not giving up on writing poetry itself, I rather be in the position of elevating others.

My personal life…been a bit indifferent regarding friends and lovers. Just need time and solitude. Should I allow anyone else to know me intimately that’s near the bottom but the understanding is the creative/art life is essential to my core being. That is just how I have been engineered over the decades.

Lastly…BP is affiliated with several other presses due to the fact that I really am exhausted from publishing, editing and formatting nearly 100 books as an editor over the years with: CONCRETE MIST PRESS, ALIEN BUDDHA PRESS and DUMPSTER FIRE PRESS.

If anything I still would publish manuscripts by other people…one or two a year In fact there is a UK duo and one multimedia artist I plan to continue publishing but if the other editors aren’t on board, I don’t have time. Your manuscript is the last thing on my mind. Especially poetry…sorry y’all are a dime a dozen as much as I love you. The time isn’t there like it used to be but that’s why we have multiple associate editors.

I love PU$$Y POWER as much as the next person but it needs to be streamlined so it can be more accessible and should present itself via a multitude of formats. Poetry and art is not linear nor confined to particular structures.

WHAT/WHY/HOW/WHERE- that happens is an unholy and hopefully semi fun process.

The future of BIONIK PU$$Y is the present…and the present is pretty bright despite the bleak sky and dead winter sun out my window right now.

PU$$Y POWER!

-MIKE ZONE/MISTER PU$$Y