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Joseph is a social worker from Massachusetts. |
© 2008 Joseph Reich
Civilization 101
1.
the hot ice man dead-asleep in truck outside the luxury hotel at dawn
2.
the world news delivered to damp curb
3.
a sign put up in the lobby for the cosmetologist convention
4.
the salesmen who are "good family men"
still fast-asleep in a drunk stupor
after a night out on the town
with drag queens and hookers.
from "Holiday-Like Stanzas":
4
At The Peak Of...
A fire-truck drizzled in drizzle
cruising from the city
rattling to the woods
You go down to the
ocean
to
come to terms
with your dreams & nightmares
The old wicked man in bifocals
Mermaids having seizures
Tractors tugging
caravans
at the close of season
Carnival animals catching a breath of fresh air
The wolves and the windsurfers
She unzips her suit
in the
dunes
(all the best laid plans...)
Out here they really
do have hair like corn silk
and are
natural and blush the breezy breath of apples
and you being the male that you are
paradoxically yet appropriately
think of them in compromising positions
(They have a
melancholy
salt-of-the-earth way about them
always the girls from the country
from the ocean from the mountains)
The field-hockey girls and ballerinas
dropped off in
the whipping winds
Glistening ladybugs
and praying-mantis
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