UNDERGROUND VOICES: POETRY
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JOHN DORSEY
the vanilla ice age last night a friend died quietly i used to imagine him as a bare knuckle boxer under boston streetlamps we used to smoke pot and take mushrooms at sundown in the fields of ohio today i wrap sonnets around my quivering body blankets of love a temporary rocky mountain werewolf picking daisies at the ellis island of invisible rivers where my words have always had strong teeth one day they will use carbon dating on airwalk sneakers and unearth a sacred burial ground built for the king of pop my eulogy was written in 1992 on the streets of seattle its love reached millions melting hearts at the end of the vanilla ice age what will they say when we're gone? that we recorded everything but were always better live 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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