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JOHN DORSEY
it's a blessing and a curse terry says that i've been unable or unwilling to transcend this fog that i've noticed on other side of this bar with its fake wood trim dating back to july 20 1969 with a sign for corona that reads buy neil a beer it feels like a cold night in hell, janis joplin sings every frat boy's favorite song to make love to the shadow of a groundhog dancing in lava they beg for a taste of southern creature comforts as they passed the silver balloon around the table covered in popcorn i realized that war is a lot of things mainly entertainment that we came here from other voices other rooms after a late lunch sinking full of hot air and if you're looking to pick up chicks reading truman capote pissing on the white house lawn after finding his thrill on boone's strawberry hill in news reel bloopers the only leap you've taken is knowing that the eagle has landed and that history books that smell like beer sometimes miss their mark the night gene ruggles died i was thinking about my pittsburgh boyhood and don't remember much else explaining what i was doing cuz honestly i'd smoked a lotta pot and from what i can gather i must've tried to explain to debbie what had just happened maybe what it all meant but she just looked at me like i was crazyhorse fingering her twat in morse code ever the disenchanted mermaid now though enough time has gone by so let me be clear for once we lose our lifeguard everything starts to sink into the background and we find ourselves high as a kite searching for temples in the suburbs of polish hill where we're left to build angels in snow that feels plain as day John Dorsey currently resides in Toledo OH. His work has recently appeared in fearless, Mystery Island Magazine, The James River Poetry, Poesy Magazine, and The Dublin Quarterly. He is the author of "Little Boy Beat:Selected Poems" Paladin M &E Inc., and is the co-author of "The Price Of Sunshine" written with Iris Berry, Feel Free Press, Forthcoming. |
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