tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71004313865524005712024-03-04T21:11:12.763-08:00Zombie Logic Review: Poetry For Outsiders and OutlawsZombie Logic Review is the online literary magazine of Zombie Logic Press, one of the Midwest's oldest independent literary presses. It is edited by Thomas L. Vaultonburg and contains poetry, webcomics, artwork, and short videos. Zombie Logic Review publishes dadaist, surrealist, Outsider, and Outlaw poetry.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger379125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7100431386552400571.post-40646227687262112242021-01-02T11:15:00.002-08:002021-01-02T11:15:57.369-08:00Hemorrhage<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-family: times; font-size: large;">No one really needs to see this one yet, so I'll just put it here. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /><b>Hemorrhage</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br />Because you will explode<br />Like a bouquet of<br />Mr. Lincoln's Tea Roses<br />During an unspecified<br />Act in the Farce,<br />Frustrating a lifetime<br />Of efforts from teachers,<br />Analysts, and surgeons<br />To hold me together,<br />And emptying my head<br />Of the eternal poppycock<br />That I was thinking<br />Something important,<br />I have left this month's<br />Electric bill<br />Unsettled. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-family: times; font-size: large;">-Thomas L. Vaultonburg</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7100431386552400571.post-51378259359936834772020-05-08T10:01:00.001-07:002020-05-08T10:01:20.856-07:00Six Poems By Donna Dallas<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Donna Dallas studied
Creative Writing and Philosophy at NYU’s Gallatin School and was
lucky enough to study under William Packard, founder and editor of
the New York Quarterly. Her work has most recently appeared in
The Opiate, Anti Heroin Chic, Beatnik Cowboy and Horror Zine among
many other publications. She has just published a novel, Death
Sisters, with Alien Buddha Press.She currently serves on the
editorial team for Red Fez.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Girls of Holly Hill</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">There are four houses</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">ones’ got a bathtub in front</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">with couch cushions piled inside</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">you can sit and sink into</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Momma comes out with faded pink rollers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">a cigarette dangles</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">she watches the other three houses</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">like the Manhattan skyline</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">a group of kids run</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">to the house with the pool</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">above ground</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">wood planks scaffolding</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the sides in place</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">they step carefully over mounds and mounds</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">of dog shit</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">climb up that rickety rusted ladder</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">to jump into the green algae water</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Later those little holly-ettes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">head to a gritty couch to dry off</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">fumble over each other</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">with chlorine hands</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and stubby thumbs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">feverishly explore slitted caverns</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">within each other’s bodies</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Jill from the Hill</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">got the black eye</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">from last night’s shift</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the three legged dog rolls around in the dirt</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Sady wears long sleeves every day</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">even when it’s roasting</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">to hide her tracks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Bubbles lost her nose from the cocaine</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">no cartilage left to hold its shape</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">smashed flat like a cartoon character</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">every day she walks four miles</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">to the nursing home to pick up Gramps</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">wheels him to the casino</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">leaves Gramps in the corner drooling</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">while she plays the penny slots</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">heads back at sunset</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">hits it up with Sady</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Momma’s got the Pap’s Blue and the cigs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Jill dances</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">along the side of the highway</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">until dawn</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Paco Please</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Paco reads the Bible with us</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">his gaze a ravenous Dr. Oberheuser</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">will Paco skin me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">or molest me?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Perhaps he jacks off to pics</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">of little girls in ruffled panties</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I shower with the lights off</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Paco peers into windows</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">never fixed that torn shade</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Paco praises the lord</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">for these gifts of bounty</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Does Paco bury his victims deep within</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the dead underbrush of this land</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">or does Paco secretly love me?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Damn Paco</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">when my red satin bra and panties</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">went missing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">my heart shaped sunglasses</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the sequin and bauble necklace from mother’s cruise to Cozumel</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">four lipsticks from Wet & Wild</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Paco’s smug as a bug nested at the window</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">with a kimono</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and a cigarette</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">rainbow eyes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">lips raging sinister red</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">under a burgundy embellished outline</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I longingly peer</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">at his smooth</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">hairless legs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">from the side window</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>While in Ordinary Time</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I had to choose from six different types of sugar this morning in the coffee shop while the weird </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">man who looked like Rambo-Santa was watching me I thought he was a pedo I just realized I’m </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">in the game duh like when was I not I turned quick and got a crick in my neck and tried looking </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">for an acupuncturist ones with pink hair know what they are doing this is completely untrue but I </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">tell myself this because she has pink hair and is working on my neck like a demon while four </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">ambulances and several fire engines stream by in urgent panic the siren noise grilling and </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">deepening and the world may be ending of course while I have twelve needles in my neck what </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">better time for Armageddon what better time to pull up on a street corner and thirty task force </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">combat police I don’t know what the fuck get out and cover the four corners – I think this is it –</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">really as Magenta the acupuncturist is now intently needling a map down my upper spine I say </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Magenta is it the end? Is this the apocalypse? The world war???!!.....as my stomach drops</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">because I have $68 left in my wallet Magenta strokes my back inserts another needle and replies </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">the world ended December 22 nd , 2012 baby none of this is real……</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Better Days</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I creep at dawn onto the train lowly</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and slowly ride through those</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">tunnels of doom I follow a woman too close</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">on purpose I study</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">her hair</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">her damaged</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">split ends slightly brassy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">home colored I compare</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">to my own mess of a head I wonder why I</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">care about her hair less anything to salvage</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the disarray that has</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">come full circle</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">to complete my very visible</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">dark roots</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Acts of self-realization</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The thing about regret the thing about this</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">veil</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">these invisible walls -- climb over</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the first one and there it is again back at ya</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the thing is</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">it never ends -- this thing / these walls this terrible myth</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">hangs on every</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">edge of your</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">every thought every glance you see her -- of course it’s a ‘she’</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">regret comes in soft</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">flowers blooming with lilac and rose scents the petals drift</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">into your palm</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">pierce as the thorn would -- she is no thorn back</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">at ya the thing about her -- about regret</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">about it all</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">fuck it that’s what</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">they say but the fog of her keeps you at bay keeps you right at the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">foot of something so great so eager</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">you hang on a hair</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">over a chasm</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">over a thought a life -- an unfortunate event</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">back at ya she comes full force</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">she / her / us / we go nowhere together</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Casino diaries</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">#1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Joey C. self-made tree cutter</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">wanna win baby win</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Just cut a tree down today</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Huge oak fell</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">across the road</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">made 4 grand</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">(Nice!)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">momma gonna make me a star today</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Joey C. just dropped it all in this here black jack machine</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">What about your wife and kids Joey?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">What about the money you need to take care of them?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Fuck it</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I go home and tell my wife I had no business today</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I’ll cut another tree tomorrow</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">#2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Where my bitches at</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Says the pimp at the bar</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">They all on call says the bartender</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Makin dat money</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Dats what I thought</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">#3</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The dishwasher-drug-dealer-room-renter</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Rents an apartment</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Then rents out rooms within his apartment</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">To the new jacks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Who come in</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Off the books</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">To clean the bathrooms</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The dishwasher-drug-dealer-room-renter sells some marijuana and crack</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">You want coke</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">He can get it</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">On his break</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Right after his shift he walks the floor</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">There’s always a last minute fiend open and waiting</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">To buy more</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Of whatever the dishwasher-drug-dealer-room-renter has</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Could be shit</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Editors note: So, it's been almost a year since I posted anything new at Zombie Logic Review. It has been a trying and arduous year for me due to health concerns. I feel much better now and am ready to do what I love best: publish the best poetry I can find from the bravest, most audacious and talented poets, wherever I find them, and regardless of what school they belong to, or don't belong to. Please spread the word. Zombie Logic is back and looking to shake it up again. I'll be posting these poems also at<a href="https://www.facebook.com/Zombie-Logic-Press-123811506902/"> </a></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Zombie-Logic-Press-123811506902/">Zombie Logic Press Facebook</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Outsider-Poetry-1690773847858186/">Outsider Poetry </a> I appreciate you liking and sharing on behalf of all the poets and contributors who work so hard to make Zombie Logic Review a collaborative effort. Please feel free to submit or encourage others to at vaultonburg@gmail.com. We may not be all in this together, but we're sure as shit all in it. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7100431386552400571.post-44131611025488639892019-07-18T16:27:00.000-07:002019-07-18T16:33:29.030-07:00David Pedersen "Always, Forever, Since First Thought" <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">David Pedersen is a poet, filmmaker, park ranger, union rep, doggy daddy, husband, friend, and typewriter enthusiast. This piece was written on a Hermes 3000. You can purchase the Kindle version of his book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Love-Collection-Poems-Short-Stories-ebook/dp/B005I4DSJS">Love Is Meat </a> at Amazon</span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7100431386552400571.post-19214762800239450322019-06-22T17:48:00.002-07:002019-06-22T17:48:52.276-07:00Poems By Giorgia Stavropoulou<br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Giorgia Stavropoulou is a poet, writer of absurdist fiction and a
former clinical psychotherapist trained in systems theory and
Lacanian psychoanalysis. She was born in Athens, Greece but raised in
a bilingual home in multilingual Belgium, and now lives in Southern
California. Her work has appeared in City (Journal of South Asian
Literature), Journey Curves Anthology 1: writers reading in Athens,
Zombie-Logic, Out-of-Print magazine, Clockwise Cat and Entropy. She
also holds postgraduate degrees in Anthropology, South-Asian
languages and literatures and Creative Writing (Manchester
Metropolitan University).</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">where corpses are crisp</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and human ashes are mistaken for the heavens</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">like termites</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">while the color red</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Tell me, friend, is Australia angry?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">America is. I don’t know why—it has everything:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">natives’ stolen land, </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">enslaved black people, </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">despised yellow people laying ties.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The lynched are angry—their ghosts haunt our history. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Tycoons are angry. I don’t know why—they’re billionaires.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Yes, I do. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Anger, do you have daddy issues?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Do you wake up red-faced every morning</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">because he favored your brother Jealousy </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">with his purple-green face?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Did he egg on your sister Fear to boss you?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Did you ever try to please him and couldn’t, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">so pimples grew on your cheeks?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Do you adore your cousin Revenge, Anger?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Do you have a heart that’s made of testosterone?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">My heart isn’t angry. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">My brain’s angry.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Angrier than white men losing power. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Angry as innocent inmates with jackal mentors.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Angrier than hungry farmers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Angry as a girl trapped in a boy’s body.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Angrier than an amputated marathoner.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Angry, like caterpillars sacrificed for butterflies.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Angrier than mothers who’ve buried ten children.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Angry as the man trapped on the moon because he’s lonely.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The man in the moon had a family.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Sometimes I’m angry I don’t get laid enough. That saddens me,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">more than a melting chocolate ice cream-ginger-ale float.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">more than gazing at the Guernica figures contorted </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">and cubed in their shades of sad silver, immortal.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Why do you exist, Anger?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Are you Love’s surrogate? </span></span></div>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I was born angry, I arrived in the doctor’s cupped hands</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">ass first just before he spanked it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">But that pissed me off less than my old man’s belt slapping my</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">butt bending over the bathtub. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Did you have anything to do with that, Anger? </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">It hurt worse than my mother making me kiss a cactus.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I love you, Anger.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">You’ve led me into the clouds like a zeppelin.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I can breathe you, Anger, guiding me, a kite over the Burj Khalifa. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I love an angry woman, too. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Anger’s kept her heart pumping like an overheated generator.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">She lives for tomorrow to kiss her like no man can. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Have you looked forward in Anger?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I love you, Anger.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">You’ve helped me survive like a commando in quicksand.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">He was pure then, a long-haired chanteuse with an eight-girl band,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">jet-black hair flowing like Niagara Falls at midnight </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">with the man in the moon watching.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">By the way, the man in the moon’s still angry at the sun </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">for stealing his light. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Poor man in the moon.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Anger, will you plant a smacker on his mouth sometime? </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Will you lead me to the confessional</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">and help me forgive my little brother’s molester?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Guide me to holy water that tastes like grace? </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Anger, I’m done dancing with you: </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">not another cha-cha about my mama,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">no more twists of my psyche—</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">we’ve tangoed too many times. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">You’ve possessed me long enough, my man, </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">King of the blues guitar I’ve played all my life.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I knew a woman so fast she was never late</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">She said she wouldn’t have a wedding just elope</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Everybody on the assembly line believed in Ramon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">the boss we all liked with his legendary name</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">King of the hours and lord of this bottle factory manor</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">when he recited a prayer we chanted an Amen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Ramon our burly master of the conveyor belt form</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">solving personnel problems far and near</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">We asked to work less he wanted more</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">we whined then relented out of fear</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Sometimes we clacked bottles and he rocked out the clock from</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">his hellraising heart and red guitar that bolted like a wild mare </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">After all Ramon was a roadie not a Ramone</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">q u e r u l o u s</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">To hear them tell it, I’m ugly, mean, and sour</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">as underwear soaked in pickle juice. Family lore</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">tells it that once I ate a long-stemmed rose</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">because my wife said I didn’t know what </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">eros</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">meant. They all laugh at me, call me a user,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">but every one of them has a stinking soul</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">that smells like a tarred-and-feathered louse.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Yes, I whine like a beat-up punk, I fret, but I rule, </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">pouty patriarch I am, aware of my role.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I’m the King of Sore, that’s for damn sure,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and when I’m happy, they call me </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Loser.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Terrance Hayes.</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7100431386552400571.post-58980598736937059432019-06-06T10:58:00.000-07:002019-06-06T10:58:10.416-07:00Poetry By Jayanta Bhaumik<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Jayanta Bhaumik is based currently in Kolkata, India. He is basically from the field of Astrology and Metaphysics. Poetry is his experiment, passion and quest. Very recently he appeared as a Poet of the Week in Rick Lupert's Poetry Super Highway (13th - 19th May 2019). </span><br />
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<b><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Family matter</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In our adolescence,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I and my sister liked shapes</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and colours and textures of</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">fruits </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">in summertime </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">we liked mangos, in rains guava, </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">peaches we knew of other unknown mapping </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">peaches from cold provinces</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">suited on our neighbour’s talks</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">other fruits our mother</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">talked of other fiery times,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Put efforts, you’ll get them quite like weapons </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Father had though</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">one choice of efforts, </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">one pair of socks, </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">one track that he had fare for,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">only one brain, one cup of coffee</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">in flimsy afternoons</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">while we had soups on shelf,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and no dirt on the floor,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">we’d rice, and sync without stuffs,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">no more lamp to flicker at rhythms </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">father not to effort, ever, to reach home</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">not a wedge needed to fit our door </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">our mother one night smiled</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">at the moon out in the window,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and winced a little while making</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">some salad, green, at our dinner,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and said she liked cucumber much</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I heard and my sister too,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and exchanged no empty look anymore</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">cucumber a fruit</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">a shape almost a blunt instrument </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">we three said sighing that night,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and munched it then eagerly </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">much</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Rampancy </span></b><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">everyday</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">is a culvert</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">last night</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I was in a song</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">sung by the visitors</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">last month</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">you made </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">a poisonous pie</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and I felt it so stoned,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">its taste was</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">old pungent sand, dense </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">everything is</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">dippy cobweb like waterflow </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">last time</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I told of a dark light,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">wishing you the best</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">panicking over a long way gone </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">through the meridian of a jouissance </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">that’s how a raft rampant on rocks</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">every night</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I eat some immortal snacks</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">uncoloured ingredients, future-notes</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and drink </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">an extra glass of fluid </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">with bubbles of secret quiddity </span><br />
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<b><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Clemency for our goddamn affairs </span></b><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">if you walk past the legacy </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">onto my splayed long pasture,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I am sure you will cherish </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the sepia coloured sky studded in blue crystals</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the flowers I grew</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">with their polyamorous petals,</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">maybe you will also visit a mirror </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">reflecting diurnal god</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">a day giving unwittingly so much light </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">later, in the night, you </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">have the vacuum refreshed in hoax, </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">strange meanings lying in many cranky cackles, </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">boundless birds loving to miss polestar </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">still not vanished in the nocturnal blur</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">but you’ll ask none, </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">what kind of mirror? </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If you further walk on,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">you see glimmers</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">you can see the morons celebrate the world </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">of pontificating tattoos </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the multicoloured pixel of spidery dilemma</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">or even certain gods playing yoyo</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I too once asked, why – </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I too found gods,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">ambushed by cliché, </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">reviving through last tunnel of the world,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">waiting to be awesome men once again on screen</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7100431386552400571.post-83599582394972911332019-05-20T10:13:00.000-07:002019-05-20T10:13:00.843-07:00J.T. Whitehead Poems <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">J.T. Whitehead has Bachelors’ degrees from Wabash College in English & Philosophy. He received a Master’s degree in Philosophy from Purdue, where he studied Existentialism, political philosophy (</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">code for Marx</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">), and Eastern Philosophy. He earned a law degree from Indiana University, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bloomington</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. He spent time between, during, and after schools on a grounds crew, as a pub cook, a delivery man, a book shop clerk, and a liquor store clerk, inspiring four years as a labor lawyer on the workers’ side. Whitehead now practices law by day and poetry by night and lives in Indianapolis with his two sons, Daniel and Joseph. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Whitehead was Editor in Chief of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, briefly, for just five issues: Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6. Under his editorship the journal published work by Robert Bly, A.D. Winans, Aram Saroyan, Marge Piercy, Margaret Randall, Gerald Locklin, Elana Bell, Julie Kane, Robert West, Alison Baker, Mark Wisniewski, Clayton Eshleman, David Shumate, Manny Martinez, Ralph Steadman, James Norcliffe, James Alexander Thom, Tim O’Brien, and Dan Wakefield, among others. The journal re-printed, with gracious permission, work by Nelson Algren, Etheridge Knight, Anselm Hollo, William Burroughs, Don Baker, Fielding Dawson, Hunter S. Thompson and Hayden Carruth, among others. The journal under his editorship also published translations of works by Gabriel Garcia Lorca, Emile Verhaeren, Blaise Cendrars, and Orhan Veli. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Whitehead is a one-time </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pushcart Prize</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-nominated short story author (2011), a six-time </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pushcart Prize</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-nominated poet (2014, 2015, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018), and was the winner of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Margaret Randall Poetry Prize</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in 2015. Whitehead has published over 200 poems and prose works in over 100 literary journals and small press publications, including </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Lilliput Review</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Outsider</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Zombie Logic Review</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Slipstream</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Left Curve </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Jack Hirschman, editor), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Broadkill Review, The Iconoclast</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, & </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gargoyle</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. His first full-length collection of poetry, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Table of the Elements</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, was nominated for the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">National Book Award</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in 2015.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">our handbags, our purses, our pockets . . . </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our owners don’t trust us,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I really don’t care for the wealthy.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">health care blues</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">His daddy left them just 10 days ago.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">so what can you do</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">when his doctor quit us10 days ago, too?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Find something mine.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">that would be one smelly strike</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I plunge, dump, wipe, scrub, disinfect, paint. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I think I’m needed . . . the firm thinks I ain’t. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The landlord says </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">200 down</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The landlord says </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">no cats </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">with a frown. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When I say </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">plumbing</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">a different kind of inheritance</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I got step-daughters, step-sons, & step-dads </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">but no step-accountant who step-adds</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">or step-subtracts,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">& these are the facts:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">to feed them I need to side-step my tax.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">38.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">theory fails again</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The egghead sits alone in the corner, </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">nose in a book, the guy’s a real loner. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Whatcha believe?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">You gotta leave.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Leave what? </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">we ask. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Your selves . . . for the owner.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">41.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">yes, they have propaganda</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I got rent, heat, light, phone, car, I’ve assessed. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Balancing needs is a goddamn math test.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As for trips, games, toys,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">such material joys,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I’ve got commercials to tell me what’s best.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">42.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">as played by Tom Waits in “Short Cuts”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Maybe I should’ve been a rock star </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">instead of driving this long, black car. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">His joint caught a stem.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Move over Rimbaud</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Into sodomy, beer & discipline,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I think with my skin,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I had my first smoke in 49 days.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the reporters don’t cover suicides like the market, do they?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The statistic decides to take a sip.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the rational versus the rationalizations</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I help with the dishes & laundry & kids,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I’m working, I’m flawed, I’m human, I’m trying. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But if she’s complaining,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">about beers, or gambling –</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">escape from BFE</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I waited all day at the BMV. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I’ve got HBO but not DVD. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">get some PBR,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">tell it to the new democrats</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">An entire town gets shut down for Taiwan. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A billion dollars in profits are made.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My tools get turned on,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">What the hell do I care for “world trade”?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">George W. Bush’s EPA</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">They say “Clean it up.” I said, “You’re insane.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The burning that made its way to my brain </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">began in my skin,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">& then, they learned, was </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">dichloromethane</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">94.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">in this economy every dollar is bloody</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Capitalists suck their piece off each buck, </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">& like a vampire, capitalists suck. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Like so much bad luck</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">you may want to chuck,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">capitalists suck, & they suck, & they suck.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If we did the work, then why do they own this? </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If we have made this, why can they sell this? </span></span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7100431386552400571.post-82933813810536004832019-05-02T19:11:00.000-07:002019-05-02T19:11:07.238-07:00Three Poems By Sudeep Adhikari<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Sudeep
Adhikari is a structural engineer/Lecturer from Kathmandu, Nepal.
His poetry has recently appeared in the venues like Boned, The
Magnolia Review and Mojave River Review. His 5th book of poetry
"anti-philosophical deep dreams" was released by Pski's
Porch Publishing, New-York, USA in March, 2019.</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">a worm-hole took me home</span></i><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">on my way to the wood,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">i once saw rivers,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">gushing</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">with crazy turbulence</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">on the concentric lives</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">of a fallen tree-</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and the micro-trajectories</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">of little atoms</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">on the wall</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">of an eroded rock-face-</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">while a spider by the side</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">was silently</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">weaving a space-time rupture</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">to take me to the world,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">that has somehow gone</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">into a comfortable oblivion-</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">amidst the countless</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">rat-races, i am supposed to come first.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> <i>the sacred dragonflies</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the green of the mountains</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">encircling the holiness</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">of my mother, </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">are now covered</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">in milky white drapes;</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the temples are quiet,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">silently watching</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">over the sufferings,</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">still you can hear</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the gods talking, and</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the buzz of dragonflies</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">flying like helicopters</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">over the little</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">patches of her distant remains. </span><br />
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<i><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">M87*</span></i><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">we somehow look</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">into your distant past</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">when you were there</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">all alone-</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">making a rupture</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">in timelessness-</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">drinking beams of light</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and the liquid fields</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">of cosmic architecture</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">to be</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the unseen lonely one.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">is not that strange ?</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the way a being bathed</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">in super-seas of light,</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">somehow appears</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">to be the darkest one,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">a beautiful yin and yang-</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">painted on the canvass</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">of an inconceivable breadth. </span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7100431386552400571.post-71189292110685638352019-04-30T15:41:00.000-07:002019-04-30T15:53:52.934-07:00Paper Fingers Zine on the Last Day of Poetry Month We created a PDF file for the Paper Fingers Zine we created at the <a href="https://www.paperfingers.com/"><b><span style="color: orange;">Paper Fingers</span></b></a> event at 317 Collective in March. You can delve into the whole project at <a href="https://www.paperfingers.com/"><b><span style="color: orange;">www.paperfingers.com</span></b></a> It contains the work Rockford area writers David Pedersen, Micky Torpedo, Richard Vargas, Tim Stotz, Travis Legge, Dylan Garcia, Jesus Abraham Correa VII, Erica Toldeo, Sky Garcia, Thomas L. Vaultonburg, Christopher Simms, Sharon Nesbit-Davis, Dannie Mathews, and many others. The art department/ilustrators include Joe Tallman, Sarah Reed McNamara, Jenny Mathews, Lucian Kuranz, Taylor Hopkins, Jesus Abraham Correa VII, Asa E Burnley, Jack Mathews, FoodStamp Davis, with photography by James Hogan, Jenny Mathews, and Ryan Burritt.<br />
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It's really rewarding when a project is received well. We sold out the print run of Paper Fingers at Art Scene. And had one helluva time with our cohorts at 317 Art Collective to boot. Thank you so much to everyone who collaborated with us to make this happen. We'll definitely be doing another zine soon.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7100431386552400571.post-18775251949552456472019-04-15T22:25:00.000-07:002019-04-15T22:46:18.155-07:00"The Streak," By Thomas L. Vaultonburg<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I never had any real issue with Tiger Woods' personal life. None of that was any of my business. The only thing I resented was that they were portraying him as this great family man the whole time. Really selling it. Using that lie to sell consumer goods. And even after it was exposed as a lie people went on defending it until the evidence was so massive that no one could defend it anymore. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">It's taken until late Monday night for me really to put my finger on what I find distasteful about worshipping the "greatest comeback ever" from a man who is only 43, and caused almost all of the setbacks he had to "comeback" from in the first place. And it's this: every one of us probably has parents and grandparents who worked their entire lives, most of the time in pain and exhaustion, just so that we could have a chance to do the same, maybe even a little better. But we don't tend to show any damn respect for that, or heap the glory on people who work harder and longer than these athletes ever will, and for no adulation, no fortune, no fame. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The Streak is a poem I wrote for my book <a href="https://www.facebook.com/commerce/products/1871049326290214/">Flesh Wounds </a> It's an homage to all the members of my family who worked their asses off so I could eventually do what I love for a living. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>The Streak </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> The announcer fawns </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Over the Iron Man: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> ` “Number 63 has played </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> In 120 straight </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Football games, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> An amazing feat </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Of endurance.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> I do the math: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Sixteen Sundays a year, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Three hours a pop </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> For nearly eight years, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> 360 total hours, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Or maybe five or six </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Weeks of my granddaddy’s </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Life in the field and </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> The mill afterhours, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Covering the rent </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> 2,750 straight months, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Playing hurt through three </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Heart attacks, seven children </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7100431386552400571.post-56415410538176961912019-04-15T13:25:00.000-07:002019-04-15T13:33:01.330-07:00Watching Notre Dame Cathedral Burn On Television<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I went to a community college where I was very fortunate to study with a group of professors who had all started there in 1965 when it opened. They included the actor Aidan Quinn's father, Michael, who was just one helluva good professor. I studied Shakespeare, poetry, short stories, and classics with him. He had been forced to commit entire Shakespeare plays to memory as a student at Trinity. He knew these pieces inside out. All of this for $15 dollars a credit hour. Best of all, he was very generous with his time, and often entertained my dumb-ass as I asked him endless questions about what we had just talked about in class. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Notre Dame Cathedral is burning this afternoon. Unlike many people, I have no conflict about my feelings about this. Nor will I apologize for them. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Many of the English professors at that time had studied with the Jesuits at schools like Loyola. It was an education in education to see how they approached texts by authors whose backgrounds and ideologies clearly were in juxtaposition to their own. In general I never remember religion being injected into any of the lectures, nor do I feel I was ever punished for expressing clearly divergent viewpoints. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">One of the poems I remember vividly from X.J. Kennedy's poetry textbook came back strong and clear today as I watched the spire of the cathedral collapse. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Today I wrote a choppy poem about my initial feelings as I watched on the news. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Stripper of my flesh.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">It is my turn now to be inquisitive.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">To wonder if it was your god</span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7100431386552400571.post-34990522344498919812019-04-09T16:26:00.000-07:002019-04-09T16:26:02.902-07:00Poems By David Wyman<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">like hot glass blown full of air—</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Seven across: cracked the famous Houdini code.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">They made it speak with little to no punctuation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Yes, and picked all the best nouns in public</span></span></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Like marks on a screen too blurry to be read—</span></span></div>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">glass shattering, the eies…</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Up passed the layers of city architecture</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">reflected in a glass tower.</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Thus mere light is pleasing to the mind.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">like it does in movies or on the news, </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">should not eate upp the poore… </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The word stock of urban life, </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">its shrill heat and crowd noise, </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">in one augmented reality</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">like the radiant nostalgia of the olde ballpark. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In the verbatim transcript, it says</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">nor the poore and dispised rise </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A tall, proud city humming commerce…</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Today the eyes of all people are truly—</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">David
Wyman's first poetry collection Proletariat Sunrise was published by
Kelsay Books in 2017. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in
BlazeVOX, Dissident Voice, Clockwise Cat, Picaroon Poetry, Down In
The Dirt, The Voices Project, Squawk Back, Tuck Magazine, The
Aurorean, A Certain Slant, The Wallace Stevens Journal, Old Crow
Review, Spout and Green Hills Literary Lantern among other
publications. He's a fan of Karl Marx, jazz guitar and the visionary
poetry of William Blake. He lives in Massachusetts where he teaches
American Literature and Composition at Mount Wachusett Community
College.
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7100431386552400571.post-13734525296181649692019-04-09T11:59:00.000-07:002019-04-09T11:59:12.407-07:00"The Cult of the Amateur" By George Anderson<br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://georgedanderson.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span lang="en-AU">George
Anderson</span></span></a> <span lang="en-AU">grew
up in Montreal and migrated to Australia in his early 20s. He is
long-term blogger at </span><a href="https://georgedanderson.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span lang="en-AU"><b>BOLD
MONKEY</b></span></span></a><span lang="en-AU">.
Recent or forthcoming chapbooks include </span><span lang="en-AU"><i>Teaching
My Computer Irony </i></span><span lang="en-AU">(Punk
Chapbook Series Epic Rites Press), Shark in the Shallows (Analogue
Submission Press) and Fuckwits & Angels (Holy & Intoxicated
Publications). </span></span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.08in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="border: none; font-style: normal; line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>The
Cult of the Amateur</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">They
found him snoring</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">in
the hazy light of the street lamp</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">wheezing
in shallow gasps</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">his
body bucking</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">in
unrepentant sobs</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">his
once translucent eyes </span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">like
shreds of torn flesh</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">once.
twice. she calls him.</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">a
detached, unapologetic voice</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the
pale walls of the motel room dangling</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="border: none; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>what’s
wrong pappy?</i></span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">a
small red circle </span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">illuminated
on her dress</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">her
shoulder blades protruding</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">under
the lace</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">he
wears a weariness</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">of
purity despoiled</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">bloodied
knuckles</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="border: none; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>what’s
wrong pappy?</i></span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">each
word screaming inside him</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the
light burns his eyes</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">a
deep red gash in the wooden door</span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the
stout woman</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">pops
the boot</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">&
heaves in the sagging plastic bag</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">in
retrospect, his head hangs pale</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">&
wiry on the lounge</span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">thru
the slot in the wall</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">he
sees the cause of everything:</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Fidel’s
agonised limp</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the
spurt of red on white</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the
hot-keyed status screen</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">blinking
in ominous black</span></div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7100431386552400571.post-72223917264704749782019-04-04T10:40:00.000-07:002019-04-04T10:40:45.832-07:00Where In the World Is David J. Thompson?<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">David J. Thompson is the Zombie Logic Press roving poet and photographer. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In between jobs again, I was living</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">on a college friend’s couch for a while.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">He phoned to say he wouldn’t be home</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">for dinner, was meeting this girl</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">who worked in the Disney store</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">at the mall he managed for a drink.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And if Heather calls, he said, tell her</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I’m working late and I’ll talk to her</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">in the morning. I‘ve got to spend </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the weekend with her and her mother</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">going over the all our wedding crap,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">so the last thing I need is any other bullshit.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Roger that, I answered, and, do me a favor,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and ask the Disney chick to explain </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">how Pluto and and Goofy are both dogs,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">but Goofy’s his best friend and Pluto’s just a pet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">He told me to fuck off and hung up.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A bag of Doritos, a six pack of Coors Light</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and the ball game on tv were all about finished</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">when he got home, his suit coat over his shoulder,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">his tie loosened. How’d it go? I asked.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Not great, he said with a shrug. She’s got nice tits</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and all, but she’s really kind of ugly and very boring. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">She did give me a decent handjob in the car</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">after I spent eighty bucks on dinner and drinks, </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">but then I practically had to push her out of my car.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I told him that didn’t sound too bad of an evening</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and Heather hadn’t called. He said that was good,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">into the kitchen. I could hear him rummaging</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">all my beer? I knew I couldn’t ask him what he learned</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">that bastard Aeneas was up to no good</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">like some kind of God, sexy like Elvis</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I’ll admit we were all crying after he told us </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">about how those Greek shitheads tricked</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the noble Trojans with that fucking horse,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">then killed his family and burned Troy</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">poor Dido never really had a chance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And if that wasn’t enough, sure as hell</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">together in a cave safe from a thunderstorm.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I’m afraid there was more than staying dry </span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7100431386552400571.post-45313732655108312742019-04-03T10:10:00.000-07:002019-04-03T10:29:57.970-07:00Five Poems By Keyote Wolf<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="m_3601169767556283270gmail-m_8704522935796150330gmail-m_-356385109441201084gmail-m_5978394284436658819gmail-m_-1649941822196339338gmail-m_-8543221417332326375gmail-m_579992916352574377gmail-m_538091321342699088gmail-m_3665863237472702591gmail-m_-8608958059002198198gmail-m_-7789890160089856329gmail-m_4389641456309205743gmail-m_1569194579615367607gmail-m_6519869877667168895gmail-m_-8150406297432708372gmail-m_-5853589437001822391gmail-il"><span 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style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: justify;"> <span class="m_3601169767556283270gmail-m_8704522935796150330gmail-m_-356385109441201084gmail-m_5978394284436658819gmail-il">was</span> <span class="m_3601169767556283270gmail-m_8704522935796150330gmail-m_-356385109441201084gmail-m_5978394284436658819gmail-m_-1649941822196339338gmail-m_-8543221417332326375gmail-m_579992916352574377gmail-m_538091321342699088gmail-m_3665863237472702591gmail-m_-8608958059002198198gmail-m_-7789890160089856329gmail-m_4389641456309205743gmail-m_1569194579615367607gmail-m_6519869877667168895gmail-m_-8150406297432708372gmail-m_-5853589437001822391gmail-il">bo<wbr></wbr>rn</span> in <span 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Previous works have appeared or are appearing in: </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: justify;">Hobo Camp Review, 322 Review, The Opiate, The Write Place At The Write Time, Blue Hour Review, Whimperbang, After The Pause, Midnight Lane Boutique, Visitant, Adelaide, Blue Moon, Bitchin' Kitsch, Pif, Mojave Heart, North Of Oxford, Vox Poetica, Blue Mountain Review And The Big Windows Review. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>GRAVITY</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
What has no eyes, must build,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Must destroy, creatures of habit</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Build their worlds</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Around your bones, leave you shiver</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Like a whisper of wind</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Through the slats of the aging house.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
What is loved, is always loved truly;</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
All the way down to the poison,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Or else it is the phantom of love,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
The beguiling spirit</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Who haunts the head</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
But never dares to enter the heart.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
What you do not know of this</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Is how the ties bind you, against</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Personal gravity, over the chasm,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
You are waiting to fall</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
From all the strings you have tied</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Between one million glances.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
What does it matter, how the world is built</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
If a single flicker leaves it to crumple</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Beneath the flame?</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Build me of fire, or water untamed,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
I will gladly suffer death before</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Being absolved into the empty cups of false glances.</span></div>
<div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
The kiss without the taste, is an empty gesture,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
So steal this momentary breath, or</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Shy away the face; for the heart knows</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Only one element: Grace,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
And is slave to only its own gravity,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Outside the coming and going</span></div>
<div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Of shadows and glances,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Build not a world of this, I'll build my own,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Discovered, uncovered, perhaps;</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
In the search for deeper meaning,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
But I do not apologize for refusing</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
To be merely another dreamer dreaming</span></div>
<div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
In the world of illusions</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Waiting for the sun to break through</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
The clouds, and break the lucid spell</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Into the sudden awakening,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
The feeling is the mist of illusion</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Seen through the veil of false affection</span></div>
<div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
The emptiness of that love,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
That dereliction, even in poverty,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
This rich glass is raised to my lips,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
The taste of the wine</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Within the kiss, the sound of the pulse in</span></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Your ears - the evidence.</span></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br /><br /><i>THE STATIC LULLABY</i></span></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Perhaps it's the broken static lullaby that does it,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Tries to steal the heat from the rising sun,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
In the convolution of meaning</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Where the wrong nerves are rubbed</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Between preachers who speak to the mind</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Filling the emptiness with the limited definition of love,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
The tug and pull between everything</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
That is meant to result in balance.</span></div>
<div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Perhaps it's the tongues of ghosts</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Still waggling out their dusty songs,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Filling the present with past eye's views,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Outdated definitions of what is right or wrong,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Meaning as skin pulled over empty bones</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
So they can rattle the pain again,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
The clinging to the rotting corpse</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
That becomes a definition.</span></div>
<div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
The black and white views and visions</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
That walk down the greying street,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
That never give an ounce of permission,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
To the coming sun, or the heat.</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Perhaps it's those seeds, rotted, but growing,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
That spell our deepest, darkest defeat,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Refusing the miracle of the moment</span></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
That leave the dead to speak.<br /><br /><br /><br /><i>WALKING THE GHOST</i></span></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Let them re-arrange me however they can</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
They won't get any closer to touching the feeling</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
And you know, it's bad, when you I love most,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Being with you here: Is like walking the ghost,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Is like walking the ghost.</span></div>
<div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
The same old traffic of broken up sighs,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
As the thoughts dance through your mind,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
I know you pay the rent on your views,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Suture up some semblance of truth</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
But it seems an insult to the host,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Being with you here: Is like walking the ghost.</span></div>
<div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
You're so pretty in your state of undress,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
With some blood still caught on your breast,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
They paint your views, and you play the show</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
These are things I don't want to know,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
You still caught in your afterglow,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
While you walk, walk out the ghost.</span></div>
<div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
While you walk out the ghost.</span></div>
<div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
I shouldn't remain, hey, it's time to leave</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
While I still have a little heart on my sleeve,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
As you dress yourself up in the notes,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
And play the music of</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Walking the ghost.</span></div>
<div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Just walking the ghost.<br /><br /><br /><i>AIN'T TRYING TO BE PRETTY</i></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
I ain't trying to be pretty,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
It ain't the way that I confess,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
My scars speak the blood of history</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
It's just the way I dress.</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Don't build up my empty sanctuary,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
No image painted to impress,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Naked is the truth of beauty,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
At least, that's the way I see it best.</span></div>
<div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
No murder in my heart for the darker days,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Though you might not see the light.</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
I keep it tucked deep in my sleeve</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Against the teeth of night,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
And whoever might have eyes to see</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Could see it clear as day,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
But time teaches better than to leave such things</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
On a bolder plate of display</span></div>
<div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Like a head on a plate, hours take the neck</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
And lay it before each king and queen,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
If you say: "I'm on fire" to the world,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
They'll add the gasoline,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
I ain't trying to be pretty,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
It ain't the way that I confess,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
My scars speak the blood of history,</span></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
It's just the way I dress.<br /><br /><br /><i>THOUGH IT'S STILL A GAME</i></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Though it's still a game,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
I've left the board;</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Though you are still knotted in your desire,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
I've learned to cut the c(h)ord.</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Is this music of absences</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Worth the price of admission,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
For something outside the empty sparks,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
The depth of a deeper friction?</span></div>
<div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
The music moves like a puppet on strings,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Waiting for its chance to prat the fall;</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
The butt of a joke where not a laugh is heard</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
The echoes of silence creeping along the walls.</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
The romance of ideas and all their invitations,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Stand, erect as a prison wall, </span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Against a deeper penetration;</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Never answering the truer call. </span></div>
<div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
It would be easier to move from piece to piece,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
To stick to the confines of the rigid board;</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Without a deeper feeling felt,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Without speaking a deeper word. </span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
But I would rather leave the game,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
Break the bondage of the board;</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
You may have your desire to remain,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.2in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">
I will still cut the c(h)ord. </span></div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7100431386552400571.post-89713876036669994952019-03-12T16:14:00.001-07:002019-03-12T16:14:43.943-07:00Poems By Michael Lee Johnson<br />
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Michael
Lee Johnson lived 10 years in Canada during the Vietnam era and is a
dual citizen of the United States and Canada. Today he is a
poet, freelance writer, amateur photographer, and small business
owner in Itasca, Illinois. Mr. Johnson published in more than
1042 new publications, his poems have appeared in 38 countries, he
edits, publishes 10 poetry sites. Michael Lee Johnson, has been
nominated for 2 Pushcart Prize awards poetry 2015/1 Best of the Net
2016/2 Best of the Net 2017, 1 Best of the Net 2018. 183
poetry videos are now on
YouTube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNQ4oRHf8Zz0TOc-9zr3Q9w" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNQ4oRHf8Zz0TOc-9zr3Q9w</a>.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Editor-in-chief
poetry anthology, </span></span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Moonlight
Dreamers of Yellow
Haze</span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">: </span></span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1530456762" target="_blank"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">http://www.amazon.com/dp/1530456762</span></span></a><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-weight: normal;">; </span></u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">editor-in-chief
poetry anthology,</span></span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Dandelion
in a Vase of Roses </span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">available
here
</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1545352089" target="_blank"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-weight: normal;">https://www.amazon.com/dp/1545352089</span></u></span></a><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">. </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Editor-in-chief </span></span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Warriors
with Wings: the Best in Contemporary
Poetry</span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">, </span></span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1722130717" target="_blank"><span lang="en"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-weight: normal;">http://www.amazon.com/dp/1722130717</span></u></span></span></a><span lang="en"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Chicago
Street Preacher </b></i>(V4)</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">By
Michael Lee Johnson</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>S</b>treet
preacher</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">server
of the Word,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">pamphlet
whore, hand out</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">delivery
boy,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">fanatic
of sidewalk vocals,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">banjo
strummer, seeker of coins,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">crack
cocaine and salvation within notes.</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Camper
on 47th from Ashland</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">to
California promoting his</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">penniless
life, gospel forever</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Kingdom
drifter here comes your reward.</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Fig
Tree </b></i>(V2)<i><b><br /></b></i>By
Michael Lee Johnson</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /><b>F</b>ig
tree, fruit to all those<br />come and gone,<br />stare down your
branches<br />with your human eyes:<br />God give us this
day;<br />distressed fathers,<br />deceased mothers-<br />children
chatter on sidewalks,<br />play hopscotch.<br />In the forest,
construction men<br />cut the wood, make naked landscapes-<br />strong
men, strong lives.<br />We all stop to contemplate<br />this theorem.</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Reincarnation </b></i></span><span lang="en-GB">(V4)</span></span></div>
<div lang="en-GB" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">By
Michael Lee Johnson</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>N</b></span><span lang="en-GB">ext
life I will be a little higher up the pecking order.</span></span></div>
<div lang="en-GB" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">No
longer a dishwasher at the House of Pancakes</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="en-GB">or
Ricky</span>’<span lang="en-GB">s
All Day Grill, or Sunday night small dog thief.</span></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="en-GB">I
will evolve into the Prince of Bullfrogs. Crickets don</span>’<span lang="en-GB">t
bother me.</span></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="en-GB">Swamp
flies don</span>’<span lang="en-GB">t
bother me</span>–<span lang="en-GB">I
eat them. Alligators I avoid.</span></span></div>
<div lang="en-GB" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I
urinate on lily pads, mate across borders and continents at will.</span></div>
<div lang="en-GB" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Someone
else from India can wash my dishes for me.</span></div>
<div lang="en-GB" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Forward
all complaints to the Ministry of Religious Affairs.</span></div>
<div lang="en-GB" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Lorie</b></i></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">By
Michael Lee Johnson</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>L</b>orie,
you want to see me clearly</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">through
this joy of my naked body</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">avoiding
the sweat of my emotions,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">just
breathing on my neck</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">rubbing
this baseline of my groin-</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">will
not find us here again.</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Go
away, leave me thinking</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">louder
than your breath-</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">body
moves quietly</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">in
a lazy sway of indifference.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br /><br />
</span><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7100431386552400571.post-12245148737176017242019-02-12T14:17:00.000-08:002019-02-12T14:17:00.351-08:00Five Poems By Jay Passer<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Jay Passer's work has been all over the place and he has had a couple chaps published
just last year, from Pski's Porch and Alien Buddha.
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">MAYBE
STRAVINSKY WAS ONTO SOMETHING</span></b></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
lingering at the bottom of a lake</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
fragile as cellophane </span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
the type that gets lodged in the throat of a fish</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
prior to suffocation.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
I’ve been reading mysteries</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
and masturbating frequently</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
as the oceans infinitely roar</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
while the sky owns its own patent on symphony.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
in the cosmic sense I just arrived</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
but I’ve pretty much had it up to here</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
an effortless drop in the bucket</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">a
ballet performed on a frozen minefield</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>THE
SLUMP</b></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
I am so tired</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
Tied to the bedposts</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
Revenge style</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
I write down thoughts</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
Like haiku</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
Without any poetic license</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
Medical examiners</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
Get away with more</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
Bad career moves</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
Locked up in the secured wing</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
Simmering in the soup</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
Of the sad-ass soul</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
I am exhausted</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
Looking forward to</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Renewal</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<b><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
HOW VERY ENDANGERED</span></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
how would you like </span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
to be</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
extinct?</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
your mirror image</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
your trapped spirit animal</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
your incapacitating injury</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
your debilitating disease</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
covered by daddy’s insurance</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
don’t ask the billionaires for any help</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
your film idols</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
sports stars</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
entertainment whores</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
the animals covered with oil</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
after a tanker spill</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
the journalist posing the</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
truth</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
assassinated</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
these things matter little</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />when you’re extinct</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
quit texting your booty</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
you fucking self-serving<br />swan</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
everybody oughta know</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
the duck</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
is your mortal</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">enemy</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>RAIN
POEM</b></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
I’m thankful it’s raining today.</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
It justifies staying home, lying in bed</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
And not being shot by some maniac on the street.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
Of course, an earthquake could hit</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
Or the psychopath in the White House could go nuclear</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
But today I’m optimistic.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
If I were a hummingbird</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
I wouldn’t be thinking about anything like this</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">But
I know I’d be glad for the rain as well</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">.<b>I
SPY</b></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
I know they won’t</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
but they ought to preserve my body </span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
for the scars alone</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
for proof of existence</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
scars don’t come easily</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
surely they’ll archive the Ray-Bans</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
for what they’ve seen through is</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
as hideous </span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
as a World War</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
sweating in the pocket of your pants</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br />
</span></div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7100431386552400571.post-51124751006099161372019-02-11T14:23:00.002-08:002019-02-11T14:23:40.988-08:00Three Poems By Andrew Rihn<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Andrew Rihn is a writer of essays,
poems, and scholarly articles. He is the author of several chapbooks,
including America Plops and Fizzes (sunnyoutside press) and The Rust
Belt MRI (Pudding House). Along with his wife, the writer Donora A.
Rihn, he co-authored the chapbooks The Marriage of Heaven and Hell:
An Election Cycle (Moria Books/ Locofo Chaps) and The Day of Small
Things (Really Serious Literature). Together, they live in Portage
Lakes, OH with their two rescue dogs.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">each other </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">apocalypse blooming</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">like a fist </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">with blood</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and mask.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Confusion</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">between pain </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and killer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Burn the old leaves. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This is the way we build. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Today, The End of the World</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">to uncover, to reveal.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As you fly between this bad city</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and the heat of my dry heart,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">reveal the silence in our veins,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">According to my theory: I am here, </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">almost apparition, a poem </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">with lines and phrases built </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">from anonymous statue,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">to bring us to ruin.</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7100431386552400571.post-73454890638071534462019-02-10T20:50:00.001-08:002019-02-10T20:50:30.511-08:00Poems By James D. Casey IV<br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/CajunPoetJDCIV/" target="_blank">James D. Casey IV</a> is the author of six full-length collections of poetry, and Founder/Editor-in-Chief of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CajunMuttPress/" target="_blank">Cajun Mutt Press</a>. His work has also been extensively published by small press venues and literary magazines including <i>Outlaw Poetry Network, Mad Swirl, Zombie Logic Review, Oddball Magazine, Beatnik Cowboy, Medusa's Kitchen, Triadæ Magazine, Clockwise Cat</i>, and several others internationally. James is a southern poet with roots in Louisiana & Mississippi, currently residing in Illinois with his Beautiful Muse, their retarded dog, and two black cats.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Links to his books and other projects can be found here </i><b>:</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://cajunpoetjames.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Drunk on Metaphors</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>In
a Band in the Rain in my Head</b></i></span></div>
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</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">floating
through the</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Hall
of Mystics</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">living
in a dream</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">within
a dream</span></div>
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</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">slipping
between realities</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">from
planet to planet</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">star
to star</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">dancing
the dance of</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">a
thousand sorrows</span></div>
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</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and
the joy of</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">never
living in one</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">reality </span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">for
too long</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">so I
don't get bored</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">running
from the shadows</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">on
cold nights under</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">chrome
and glass</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">using
regions of the</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">brain
seldom used</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">feeling
like a bad connection</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">to a
whisper in the dark</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">here
there is something</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">stronger
than a hallucination</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">imagining
I’m a changeling</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">imagining
I’m a cyborg</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">imagining
I’m a devil</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">imagining
I’m a god</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">imagining
I’m a poet</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">imagining
I’m a postcard</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">imagining
I’m a candle</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">imagining
I’m crazy</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">keeping
it all inside</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">loving
every minute of it</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">in a
band</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">in the
rain</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">in my
head</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">playing
strange instruments</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">no
one’s ever seen</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">let
alone heard</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">it
gets weird sometimes</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">but I
love weird</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">once I
caught myself dancing</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">to
This Must be the Place</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">by David
Byrne </span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">on
repeat</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">wearing
a big strap-on dildo </span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">carrying
a butcher knife</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">slashing
and fucking the air</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">to the
beat</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">when
things get crazy</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">all
you can do is go with the flow</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">jump
over the edge</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the
less we say about it</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the
better</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">imagine
opening a window</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">imagine
opening a door</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">imagine
opening time</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and
stepping inside</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">when
you can’t tell</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">one
god from another</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">no
skin color</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">no
creed</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">no war</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">time
isn’t holding us</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">time
isn’t after us</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">just
pale soulful light beings</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">from
different planets</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">in
this crazy magick ceremony</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">called
life</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">in so
many different dimensions</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">same
as it ever was</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Two
by Two by Two</b></i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Blown
mind slaves</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">upon
the midnight hour,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">in
static</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">gone
mad.</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Lost
in medicine chants.</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Worshiping
a liquid moon.</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Here,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">on
lunar dunes,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">no
ordinary world.</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A
rotting deity</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">plays
maracas</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">underneath
a crystal</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">sombrero.</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Dreaming</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">about
the children of</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">cat
people</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">with
chatoyant eyes,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">furtive</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">yet
alluring.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Calling
out lissome beings,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">otherworldly,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">from
in-between the mortar</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">of an
evocatively bricked </span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">labyrinth. </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">All
standing</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">in a
crooked line,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">two by
two</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">by
two,</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">outside
a wrought iron gate</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">in the
land of Nod.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The
entrance</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">to the
final realm.</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Here
between reality and </span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the
devil's playground.</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Most
lack the wherewithal</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">made
of fool's gold</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">to pay
the cover fee, but</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">not
this fool, I just so happen </span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">to be
a card-carrying member.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Tripped
the Light Fantastic</b></i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A
cosmic rendezvous</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">At the
Devil's Thumb</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A
seedy bar & grill</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">On the
south side of the Milky Way</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">With
alien gangsters from X Nibiru</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">They
demanded to speak with the manager</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Because
their meat was undercooked</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Mine
was just fine</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">But
then</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Of
course</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I was
high on space junk</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The
pink is better than the white</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Good
shit I tell ya</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The
manager man</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If
that's what you'd call it</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Arrived
at our table</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">With
pug dog eyes</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Protruding
from a </span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Thumb-like
head</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Speaking
in clicks & whistles</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">My
friends shot him on the spot</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Killed
him dead</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">They
all laughed</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I
laughed along</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Even
though my blood</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Felt
like green jello</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Fear
is a funny thing</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">They
threw a chunk of gold</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Onto
the table</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Tipped
the waitress</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">With
some of the pink junk</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And we
tripped the light fantastic</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Riding
a shooting star</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Down
to the next whiskey bar</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Gotta
love those space gangsters</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">They
keep it interesting for sure</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">But at
that point</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I knew</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I was
in way over my head</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br /></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7100431386552400571.post-39746879283793327262019-02-05T21:44:00.001-08:002019-02-05T21:44:23.923-08:00Poetry By David Boski<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Poetry by David Boski</span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">regretful ending</span></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">let’s yell at each other </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and call each other </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">names</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">say things </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">we can’t take</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">back</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">cause if we </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">just go about this</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">like two mature adults</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">we won’t </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">f e e e e e e l</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">anything </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">now will we? </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">so </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">go ahead </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">sweetheart </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">let it all out</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">call me an asshole</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">tell me I’m a piece of</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">shit </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">tell me I’ll always</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">be alone</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and that I don’t</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">deserve </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">your love</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">or any love </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">for that matter</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">but when you finish</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">it’s my turn</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and I have a lot </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">of things I’d like</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">to get off </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">my chest</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">a lot of things</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">we’ll both regret </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">later on </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">but by then</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">it’ll be </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">too late</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">thanks</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">for </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">listening </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A Scent</span></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">you always smell like</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">cigarettes and </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">laundry detergent</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">she said </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">as </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">we both lay there</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">post orgasm</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">waiting for the drugs </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">to wear off</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">so we could</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">fall asleep</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">knowing that this</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">wouldn’t last</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">but enjoying </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the momentary </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">beauty</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">anyhow.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">routine </span></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">it all drains you</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">. . .</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the arguing</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the fighting</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the menial tasks</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the day to day</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the job</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the relationships</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">your friends</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">your family </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the drugs</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the alcohol</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the madness</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the death</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the news</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">social media</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">phone calls</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">voicemails </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">emails</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">text messages</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">love</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">hate</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">sympathy</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">empathy</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">apathy</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">stress</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">depression</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and so on</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and so forth</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and there’s nothing</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">we can do </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">about it</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">which makes it</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">that much more</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">debilitating </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Urine Trouble</span></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I awoke to what I thought was a running
drain or a leak of some sort, when I noticed her sitting</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">at the edge of the bed.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“You hear that?” I asked annoyed,
but she didn’t respond.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">she had come to my place wasted earlier
that night, and that’s when I realized what was</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">happening.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“Jesus Christ, are you fucking
pissing on the floor?” I asked as I reached to turn on the light</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">switch in an angry panic.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The answer was no, she wasn’t
relieving herself on the floor but rather the mattress itself.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“Sara, you pissed on the fucking
bed!” I yelled as I tried shaking her awake.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“wh…uh…at” she slurred.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“what do you mean what? you pissed on
the fucking mattress you fucking cunt”</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“oh shit, I’m sorry. I’ll get you
a new one” she replied, suddenly awake.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Perhaps due to my yelling or maybe
because she was sitting in a puddle of her own piss.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“It fucking stinks, where the fuck
are we going to sleep?”</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“I’ll get you a new fucking
mattress. I’ll send you the money for it!” she yelled back at me.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“no, no, fuck that. you’re done,
that’s it.”</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“you’re breaking up with me?” she
asked confused.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“yes, get the fuck out. I have to get
rid of this and sleep on the fucking couch.”</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“fine, I’ll send you the money you
fucking asshole” she said as she finished getting dressed and</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">putting on her shoes.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">. . .</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The next day she transferred me the
money for the mattress, but I sent it back and I took her</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">back instead.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A month later we broke up again.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">But this time</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">she didn’t</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">send</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">any money.</span></div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7100431386552400571.post-78004795843855373932018-12-05T18:31:00.001-08:002018-12-05T18:31:24.513-08:00Four Short Poems By Thomas L. Vaultonburg Written On a Spanish Olivetti Studio 45 Typewriter<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">My fellow writer David Pedersen let me borrow his Spanish Olivetti Studio 45 typewriter, so I took it to the 317 Art Collective and wrote these poems. </span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Return</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The onion-skin paper</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Disappears into the black</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Void of the roller like Persephone,</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And re-appears on the other side</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Like a blanket of fresh snow</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">No one has pissed on yet.</span></div>
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Spanish Olivetti Studio 45 Typewriter</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Keys</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I finger the keys</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">of my red</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Spanish typewriter</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">until she gushes</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">forth this poem</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Upkeep</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Everybody wants to</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">ride my bicycle,</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">but no one else knows</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">how to oil the chain</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Leaks</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">for fifty years my</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">heart and roof leaked until</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Death fixed them both</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Check out <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/Zombie-Logic-Press-123811506902/shop/?rid=123811506902&rt=6">Zombie Logic Press</a> storefront for Christmas ideas.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7100431386552400571.post-37417388266526468522018-11-27T15:33:00.002-08:002018-11-27T15:33:27.789-08:00Poetry By Jack D. Harvey<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">His Fifty-Sixth Birthday</span></span></div>
<b id="docs-internal-guid-a7a14149-7fff-3849-33c4-b39ff8d5e9ca" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">On the marches of March</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">we march on regardless;</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">birthdays bring</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">no one out of the</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">woodwork;</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">even the birthday boy</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">saws his horse in two.</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Spectatio, sweet delicate</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">mouse girl believes;</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Swanhild the swan maiden</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">swoops down on her</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">priapic darling.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">O idle Ides,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">O pretty days</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">boating along, my idol,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I ruffle your rough hair;</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">you toy with my</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We push and pull, like sumo wrestlers,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">of the Holy Wisdom, the sense of it,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Jack D. Harvey’s poetry has appeared in Scrivener, The Comstock Review, The Antioch Review, Bay Area Poets’ Coalition, Zombie Logic Review, The University of Texas Review, The Piedmont Poetry Journal and a number of other on-line and in print poetry magazines over the years. The author has been a Pushcart nominee and over the ensuing years has been published in a few anthologies.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The author has been writing poetry since he was sixteen and lives in a small town near Albany, N.Y. He was born and worked in upstate New York. He is retired from doing whatever he was doing before he retired. </span></div>
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