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MICHAEL INTERNICOLA
BLANKETS OF SNOW ON A PLATE OF BEEF WELLINGTON she walks bent over a little bit on blankets of snow and she likes to laugh and she wants to be in love more than anything else in this world. her favorite dish is some steak number i can't pronounce and she wears a watch from tiffany's that her father gave her when she was twenty one years old. she walks bent over a little bit on blankets of snow and she likes to laugh and she wants to be in love more than anything else in this world and she stands by that love or no love and always smiles. she's the stem that holds up everything beautiful like her pink toe nails or the tango. I KNOCKED OUT ALL HIS FRONT TEETH WITH A BEER BOTTLE AND LEFT HIM FOR DEAD IN THE HALLWAY she called me one night and said he roughed her up and i asked where he lived but she wouldn't tell me. so i called one of her friends and she told me. he buzzed me in for a free pizza. i beat that fucker down hard when he opened the door. i broke his nose, his cheeks, his skull, his imitation of a dick, his ribs, his knee cap. i thumbed his eyeballs. i knocked out all his front teeth with a beer bottle and left him for dead in the hallway. there was even blood on the ceiling. then i went over to her place with the teeth in a ziploc bag and i looked at her and she looked at me and i walked away. i never said a fucking word. EMPTY EMPTY SPACES rick and stacy were sitting on some steps and sar walked by and rick noticed her but she didn't see them or maybe she did but it was awkward so she sped by. what a stupid conversation they all would have had, "what's mike up to?"- sar might have asked them and they would have said, "i don't know. i haven't seen him in so long..."-then rick would laugh and she'd laugh, "where is he living?"-rick'd ask sarah and sar'd answer, "i don't know. we don't talk anymore."-and then she'd walk away feeling stupid and small and rick and stacy would kiss because they're married and still together. A novelist, M.A. Internicola is the author of three previous novels, KISS ME BABY, SUNFLOWERS!, CHAZ, and ALL OUR SKIES ARE BLUE. The poems included here are from two separate poetry books, MALISM and THE DARKEST PLACE IS UNDER A STREETLIGHT, both completed early 2004. His poems/short stories have appeared in Caffeine Magazine, Zygote In My Coffee, Remark, The Quadrangle, Mule, Spent Meat, The-Hold, Antipatico, Lunitic Chamelon, Kant Magazine, Fragment Magazine, James River Poetry Review and The Mosquito Lounge Review. He lives in New York City. |
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