Barry Marks Viagra Commercial Now that I’m done chuckling about the 4-hour erection, I look at your photo and realize that my heart is no longer healthy enough for sex. As a lawyer, Barry Marks finds attempting to express himself in a single sentence to be extremely challenging. (Editors Note: He did fine.)
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Barry Marks: “At 63, I am finally old enough”
Barry Marks At 63, I am finally old enough that I no longer have to explain being bad at softball and basketball, remembering birthdays or pretending that what you’re saying really makes a difference. As a lawyer, Barry Marks finds attempting to express himself in a single sentence to be extremely challenging.
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Barry Marks Conjoined Truth One of us needs to be the blonde girl in the torn blue sweater saying I love you I have always loved you so the other of us can be the tall man with the cigarette saying I know I have always known I am sorry. As a lawyer, Barry Marks […]
Read MoreDale Patterson: “Three-Legged Dog”
Dale Patterson Three-Legged Dog Goofy ears slap his face silly, while the knots of his spine wag a broom tail. Dale Patterson tells his wife he is writing poetry to get out of doing household chores.
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Dale Patterson Regression Therapy You recall a hovering light and being abducted by Jesus. Dale Patterson tells his wife he is writing poetry to get out of doing household chores.
Read MoreRodd Whelpley: “Excerpt from the Orientation Spiel”
Rodd Whelpley Excerpt from the Orientation Spiel You’ll be surprised to learn, but at the Illinois Municipal Electric Agency weeks may pass without mention of Walt Whitman, as though he never was. Rodd Whelpley is doing his best with what he has.
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Shriram Sivaramakrishnan #1 Mayday! Mayd… shouted the captain, his voice drowning in the icy vodka. Shriram, a poet from India, is a lover of moments lost, words forgotten and things in-between.
Read MoreEd Higgins: “Derelict Words”
Ed Higgins Derelict Words Hours after the incident still the pattern of anger and remorse with depression sitting there beside you on the worn down living room couch. Ed Higgins can be found in almost any authentic Irish bar writing poems on the damp bar top.
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