Ceiling’s Eye View Upon a Mattress

By AJ M I stay around for too long again I listen to the same song I think the same scene ripe and real for adaptation till it gets too old and rotten. Floating eyes encircle the cerebral barge like pigeons. I’m a performer spinning plates, or handling rings from limb...

Ironical Cynicisms Dire End Note (Another Outro)

By AJ M The band sings in an uplifting tone about things that bore down on them till nothing was left of the city but bones, till skin shrieked in the wind, tattered flags menacing the visitors who could afford a way out. We were there, we saw it all, it didn’t...

The Cartographer Nation of Friends

By AJ M The man claimed to be my friend, he who had met me at that instant. He crept alongside me, and behind, sometimes even in the front of me, I was reminded of Poe’s story of the doppelganger I started to believe in him He managed my social engagements, work life,...

The Quad-City Worker Launches Video Platform

Quad Cities DSA Communications and Political Education Committee The Quad-City Worker is launching a brand new video platform, starting with a YouTube channel you can find at youtube.com/@qcworker. This platform will be a new place for members to share a socialist...

QCDSA Mutual Aid Distribution

By Meagan R It’s January 10th, 2026, the morning of our Mutual Aid distribution event, and it’s cold and windy outside of the Davenport Public Library. My fellow DSA members and I prepare the items we have spent the last few weeks fundraising and shopping for: coats,...