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Daniel Romo
An emerging poet from Long Beach, California who is in
the process of applying to a number of graduate schools.
Small World
by Daniel Romo
She typed furiously
On her laptop,
Excessively
Straight-laced
And homely.
Her tan loafers
Firmly planted
On the carpet
Indicated
She never had sex.
She captivated me
Nonetheless.
I wondered what she
Was writing
So hard,
And thought
Maybe
She was a poet too,
And if so,
Would she rather dine
With Rumi
Or Bukowski,
Or maybe Plath?
She paused for a moment
Holding her bangs
Between her fingers,
And I thought Plath.
Definitely Plath.
Musician David Rovic on George Tiller
Hi folks
Another doctor who provided abortions has been murdered in the US, this time in Kansas. He had already been shot back in 1993. Google Dr. George Tiller and you'll find out lots more. I'll get a scratchy MP3 of the song up on http://www.myspace.com/davidrovics soon, but here's the lyric...
In the Name of God (the Murder of Dr. Tiller)
David Rovics
In the Name of God
I woke up this morning
And I turned on the news
It was a Sunday morning
They were sitting in the pews
The doctor's wife was in the choir
She was about to sing
She saw it all in front of her
And she heard that awful ring
In the name of God he held his pistol
Pointed at the doctor's head
In the name of God he pulled the trigger
Now the doctor's lying dead
Dr. Tiller had a family
Three daughters and a son
Two girls were both doctors
Who were proud of what he'd done
They knew someone had to do something
Before they left this world behind
If it wasn't them then who would serve
The cause of womankind
In the name of God...
This is not Afghanistan
It's the Heartland USA
Where a girl has to wonder
If she'll get acid in her face
Where they bomb the women's clinics
Because the preacher told them to
Where the man there on the TV
Tells them that's what they should do
In the name of God...
David Rovics
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Chicago Poet Peycho Kanev’s new poetry collection “r” which is collaboration with the poet Felino Soriano and the Editor Edward Wells is out now and can be found at Amazon.com
Link:
http://www.amazon.com/r-Peycho-Kanev/dp/0979129494/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1245405775&sr=8-1
The following is from Kanev’s collection
Peter
my friend Peter works
in a slaughterhouse somewhere in the South,
he kills horses
and turns them into dog’s food,
slit them throats and hangs them
on big hooks until the blood runs out.
I hear him on the phone often:
“I can’t take this anymore, dude,
I will do something horrible.”
he says.
and I imagine him now
how he stands in this big storage freezer,
surrounded by the dead meat
on the hooks, covered in dried blood,
how he runs his index finger along
the edge of the butcher’s knife
and looks thoughtfully…
The Chickasaw Plum - Volume VI - Number 7 - July 2009
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