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***BIO*** John Dorsey currently resides in Toledo, OH. He is the author of several collections of poetry including "harvey keitel, harvey keitel, harvey keitel" with S.A. Griffin and Scott Wannberg, Butcher Shop Press/Rose of Sharon Press/Temple of Man, 2005 and "Holy Toledo! The Sonnet River Volume" Sleepy Brooklyn, 2008. He is a member of the much hated poetry performance group THE BEARDS. He may be reached at archerevans@yahoo.com
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Reborn on the 4th of July
by John Dorsey
for Jason "Juice" Hardung

i think people tend
to forget that poets
can be assholes   i look
at myself in the
mirror more often than i
probably should it isn't
for the reasons you'd think

i'm over 30 underemployed
over educated and over weight
with a face only
a mother could love as
long as we're only
talking theoretically

but hey it's ok
because i write poems
every once in a
while because my eyes
sometimes sparkle brighter than
costume jewelery in an
off-broadway production of
joe orton's "loot" because i
look up and know
how the stars feel

i think people tend to
look at me in
black and white because
i was born with
high hopes and dashiell hammett's
wandering cheekbones i think
people tend to think
that if it rained
pennies from heaven
that i wouldn't steal
them from jerry's kids
and go strait to
a coinstar machine in
the middle of the
night and trade them
for more angry passionate
words but i would

because when i was
a kid i collected
memories like most people
collect buffalo nickels because
i've never been able
to take the suffering
of others at face value

i think most people
forget that i was
raised on the hopes
and dreams and words
of underground literary lions
that "bookwhore" doesn't have
to be a dirty word
that sometimes i
like to pass the
time watching heroes i
once called brother plant sunflowers
shaped like ghosts in
front of my grandmother's
house and that i don't
have to celebrate my
independence to know what
it means to be free
Sept. 2008
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