This
rootbeer saved my life
I’m
not embellishing in the least little bit
It’s
Virgil’s because sometimes the cheap shit just won’t do
Still
thinking about you and that you’re dead
We
weren’t close, but we’re both creative spirits and like me, you always had a
way of taming the shrews with such aplomb and guerilla like finesse
If
there was an Olympic sport for publishing poetry you’d be the Michael Phelps of
the poetry galaxy
This
rootbeer saved my life because it cut no corners when getting to my taste buds
Sometimes
apathy sodomizes you so hard you forget what it’s like not being a beast of
someone else’s burden
I
want to slow dance with you under the Glasgow stars as we sweat out our
vindictive vendettas and abandoned love ransomware into the wet streets
The
death of a friend, even someone you only knew in the publishing sense of the
word can and will hit you like a ton of Gideon Bibles
I
enjoyed our conversations on the way back from North Royalton as he told me
tales of what it’s like to be him in this unvetted rain forest of scrambled
romantics and hopeful artists
I’m
going to take another swig, and another toke and try my damndest to live inside
this miserable news by playing all the many Poet’s Haven hits back in my head,
just to mention (but) a
few:
“Ether Bisque” by Steven
Smith, Julie Ursem Marchand, Joni Soule and Charles Cicirella
“Another Set of
Ripped-Out Bloody Pigtails” by Juliet Cook
"Andropomorphic"
by Summer Kurtz
"Fragments from the
Book of the After-Dead" by Herb Kauderer
"From Frost to
Phoenix" by Crystal Clark
"Origami
Lilies" by Joshua Gage
"Reckoning with
Essential Bliss" by Marc Mannheimer
"Poemaholic"
by Azriel Johnson
"Stanley Stanley's
Investigative Services and Other Mysteries" by Kristina England
"Corpus
Lingua" by Dianne Borsenik
"It Takes More Than
Chance to Make Change" by John Burroughs
"Inside the Walls
of a Blackened Book" by A.J. Huffman
"Her Haunted Hazel
Eyes Contradict Her Smile" by Lynne Albert
"Imaginary
Conversations" by Jen Pezzo
"Anywhere Else But
Here" by Carla Thompson
"I Wish" by
Skylark Bruce
"A Thousand Voices:
A City Shaman's Notebook" by C.M. Brooks
"Getting
There" by Jacob King
Charles Cicirella
8/1/19 
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