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UNDERGROUND VOICES: POETRY
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ROBERT PLATH
One for Li Po It's 9:00 A.M. early May I light a cigar & walk out onto the old stone patio it rained all night the forsythia are more green than yellow cherry blossom petals stick to my shoes my cigar smoke drifts downward toward the old covered swimming pool then vanishes above brown leaves floating in rainwater on top of the sagging cover the skin around my neck is a little looser this year I tap my ash in a puddle in a while I'll pick up a few bottles cover the windows with wool blankets and turn out the lights and dream away in my womb of wine Feeling Lucky It's late March 10:08 P.M. I have my car window lowered for the first time in a while my right palm rests across the bottom of the wheel the other holds a fresh cigarette sitting at a red light tapping the ashes out into the dark I think for a moment of all the men spending their first night in their graves and then all four strings of traffic lights flash green so I punch the gas and the guts of my old car pull me through Robert Plath has one book of published poems called Ashtrays and Bulls (2003 1st place winner of Nerve Cowboy's chapbook contest). He has published poems in Barfing Dog Press, Big City Lit, Blowback, Chiron Review, Devil Blossoms, Evolution, Gnome, Long Island Quarterly, Lunatic Chameleon, Mad Swirl, Mannequin Envy, Nerve Cowboy, Pearl, Poetrybay, Polarity, Sho, Soul Fountain, Stickman Review, The Idiot, Zygote in my Coffee. He also has poems forthcoming in Cerebral Catalyst, decomP, Masodon Dentist, Laurahird's Showcase, Dying Writers, ragged Edge , Showcase Press Poetry Journal, (print issue) and Strange Road. In 2002, he was part of a spoken word/music CD Northport Celebrates Jack (a Kerouac tribute) featuring world famous musician David Amram. He was also a student of Allen Ginsberg's for two years. |
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