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UNDERGROUND VOICES: POETRY - 05/2012
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JOHN GROCHALSKI Market Futures bought and sold like cattle like someone’s junk at a flea market aggregates for the capitalist wheel solicited in our homes by corporations and co-ops bought and sold and bought and sold again like dim-bulb, free market twits becoming the product placement the polished items on the shelf riding in cars sleeping in beds the swaying billboards of commerce down to the shoelaces bombarded by ads in emails scrolled down the sides of homepages duped into harmless applications that have tracked every move by video games mining interests until there is nothing left to care about bought and sold then taken to the slaughter let it happen this bargain basement movement this twenty-first century blow-out sale where everything must go autonomy privacy dignity and shame wholesale prices on the conscience and the flesh dirty deeds done on the cheap there is no choice did this without a care in the name of community and fun never getting back what has been lost because we cannot articulate what that is but the feelings at large are hollow and underhanded the sneak that has slithered into our lives brought to you by…. bought and sold and sold all over everything that we like everything that we hate every pleasure that has ever tickled our fancy what we want before we want it a retail apocalypse unfolding one click at a time data mining the guts into a new numbness of content the future that was always planned only no one told us that it would be like this. John Grochalski is a published writer whose poems have appeared in Underground Voices as well as Avenue, Red Fez, The Scrambler, Eclectica, Rusty Truck, Houston Literary Review, Carcinogenic Poetry, Thieves Jargon, Outsider Writers Collective, The Lilliput Review*, *The New Yinzer*, *The Blue Collar Review, Front Porch Review, The Deep Cleveland Junkmail Oracle, The ARTvoice*, *Modern Drunkard Magazine*, *The American Dissident*, *My Favorite Bullet*,*Words-Myth, The Main Street Rag, Viral Cat, Zygote In My Coffee, Dead Snakes, the Kennesaw Review, Octopus Beak Inc., Ginosko Literary Review, Clockwise Cat, Ink Sweat and Tears, Cherry Bleeds, Indite Circle, Lit Up, Gloom Cupboard, Alternative Reel, One Night Stanzas, Re)verb, American Tanka, Tattoo Highway, The Smoking Poet, Why Vandalism, Yes Poetry, South Jersey Underground, Unlikely 2.0, The Delinquent, Delirio, The Chiron Review, Gutter Eloquence, Opium Poetry, Mad Swirl, Deep Tissue Magazine, The Loch Raven Review, The Hidden City Quarterly, Poetic Desperation, Calliope Nerve, Eviscerator Heaven, Leaf Garden, Down in the Dirt, Black Listed Magazine, Poetry Super Highway, Lit Up, Ghoti, The Plebian Rag, (A Brilliant) Record, Front Page, Eunoia Review, Sex and Murder, Gnome, Poor Mojo’s Almanac, Thirteen Myna Birds, This Zine Will Change Your Life, Children, Churches and Daddies, Guerilla Pamphlets, Fosebook, Litterbox Magazine, Neglected Ratio, The Citron Review, Clutching at Straws, Thunderclap, Eunoia Review, Cracking the Spine, PIPE dream, Citizens for Decent Literature, The Camel Saloon, and the Orange Room Review.* His short fiction has appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Fictionville, Bartleby Snopes, Retort, The Battered Suitcase, The Big Stupid Review, Pequin, The Legendary, Troubadour 21, The Moose & Pussy, and the anthology Living Room Handjob. His column The Lost Yinzer appears quarterly in The New Yinzer. His book of poems The Noose Doesn’t Get Any Looser After You Punch Out is out via Six Gallery Press, and his second book Glass City is out on Low Ghost Press. |
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