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***BIO*** Michael D. Grover is a Florida born poet. As a drifter has lived all over the country.
Michael's poetry has been published all over the literary underground in places like
Cause & Effect, Citizen 32, Alphabeat Soup, The San Gabriel Poetry Quarterly, Mad
Poets Review, Philadelphia Poets and the anthologies One Drop: To Be The Color Black,
West Memphis Witchhunt, and My Time: The Lunch Break Book and online including
www.saintvituspress.com, www.outsiderwriters.org, www.getunderground.com,
www.dyingwriters.com, DecomP Literary Magazine, Zygote In My Coffee,
Redfez.net, Whirlygig Zine, and Beat The Dust. Michael is now back in Florida from there he hosts the
website www.covertpoetics.com, co-edits CP Journal, and hosts a reading at Exodus Coffee
& Culture in Port Saint Lucie. Michael spends entirely too much time in his lab where he
experiments with words and sound. He plans on moving soon once again. His newest chapbook is titled
"The Man That Lives In The Park".

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Another Male Poet That Never Smiles

by Michael Grover

Last night I told her
I received a new magazine
That I was published in.
So she asked me to take a picture,
And send it to her.

So today I took a picture
Of me holding the magazine,
E-mailed it off in an instant
Hoping to send a smile.
Make a heavy day
Less heavy.

So I called her tonight,
Asked her if she got it.
Waited for her reaction.
She said, "Oh great,
Another male Poet that never smiles."
What she could not see
Through the cold and insensitive fiber-optics,
Was me smiling ear to ear
On the other end of the line.
Basking in her angelic glow.

Sept. 2008

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