optimism.
Liquid pours under the wire with just three ticks left as chili spreads atop the chest of a boy no more than 40 only when he wears white only when we wear white only wondering if it is an accident or if the white is just another canvas another space another opportunity another place another creative mustard sandwich embracing salami and my BBQ chips fall in my beer under the wire of the tick tock as we look on the flip side of the flop of chili on your white shirt. - Matthew Manos

Music - Dan Everett

Optimism

heart.
The downstairs neighbor keeps his presence known through persistent beating and pumping and filling and draining of blood
and sugar and water but it is tolerable because you can just turn up the air conditioning to mask the sound
until one evening he beats to the rhythm of a bad Slayer cover band giving you a hand when you least need it as you think about entertaining more natural more organic more rooted treats from trees and bushes and soil to grow as gifts
to leave at the doorstep as a kind way of asking for some peace and quiet. - Matthew Manos

Music - Dan Everett

Heart

Useless Clowns

Ed Askew submitted this beautiful song for Future Taco! So honored! Such a big fan!

Stolen Words by Ed Askew (Excerpt from Unibrow by Matt Manos)

Techno by Victor Go

Katy P by MMXLO

High Expectations by Stephen Booth

Heres Hoping by Ghost Puppy

This Party's Over by Irvin Dally

Die Young (Wishing the Night Was Over) by Kyungsmith

FUTURE TACO is a quarterly zine of asporationally poetic doodle dropping brain fairies swinging and swaying from clouds of cheese and pumpkin seeds spread across sheets of pink foil ripped like gray hair lacing bank statements long overdue from flippy flop floop flipple flap. FUTURE TACO explores spontaneity, stream of consciousness, and the documentation of singular moments within the tick tock of a click clock’s wooden bench stained in ketchup colored newspaper delivered fresh at doorsteps paved in green grass.