| Today, we have 70 poems + 11 stories + 3 essays = 84 works by 43 authors
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| Bravado by Andy Zimmerman |
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He loved women
but there was no woman
strong enough
to hold him
dressed as he
was in a purple check shirt
with a collar like an airplane
he dreamed
he was a big shot
from Des Moines who could
wander in and out the homes
of tragic spinsters without
regard for their disappointment.
then
his pickup spitting oil
he made a killing in a junkyard
his whore bust her strap
so he swept her off to Macey’s
a bus flipped a Hedgehog
so he founded a Sanctuary
an old man was short changed
so he sang him Bing Crosby
until it was tea-time
all this
in the space of an afternoon
then he heard the kids were crying
so he headed home |
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