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UNDERGROUND VOICES: POETRY
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JOHN DORSEY
poem for philomene long in a past life the sun invented dance was hunted down and made to suffer the pleasures of women the muse drunk on words while you sister philomene sang with beauty drank cheap wine with pride and invented the outline of god tonight the roman dead stand sentry on the boardwalk while you blow one last cotton candy kiss to your city now being washed out into a sea of dreams and ruins they pray silently may you join the ghosts of venice west for a pint of holy water and a nugget of dank zen a feminine flower set on fire the only god some angels have ever known hide & seek: a song for my shadow i used to think that if i was willing to hide long enough that god might come looking for me on the other side or at the very least that the devil might come to collect my soul leaving me with an occasional poem instead of more bad debt and a skeleton that holds on to dreams about as well as a leaky freighter in what's left of my heart i guess i just thought that the ghosts of cleopatra and mark twain would at least come looking for their cosmic lovechild their little boy wrapped in wonder that they might form a search party diving to the depths of the maumee river to drown in the sorrows of the lost instead of this faceless midwestern ghost town i call my flesh this body which has become a temple of wanting i thought at least you might hear me singing mississippi delta blues to blackbirds on the fence of sanity more than once i prayed that you might find me here seeking wisdom in the temple of the muse a poet forever lost in the house of the rising sun hiding from everyone including himself John Dorsey currently resides in Toledo, OH. He is the author of "Harvey Keitel, Harvey Keitel, Harvey Keitel" with S.A. Griffin and Scott Wannberg, Butchershop Press/Rose of Sharon Press/Temple of Man, 2005, and "Moshing With The Cosmos" with Iris Berry, Magenta Press, 2005. He can be reached at archerevans@yahoo.com |
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