| ZYGOTE IN MY COFFEE.COM |
| ***BIO*** I am a published writer whose poetry has appeared in Avenue, The Lilliput Review, The New Yinzer, The Blue Collar Review, The Deep Cleveland Junkmail Oracle, The ARTvoice, Modern Drunkard Magazine, The American Dissident, Words-Myth, My Favorite Bullet, The Main Street Rag, Thieves Jargon, Underground Voices, Why Vandalism, and Eclectica. My short fiction has appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and my column The Lost Yinzer appears quarterly in The New Yinzer (www.newyinzer.com). My book of poems The Noose Doesn't Get Any Looser After You Punch Out is out via Six Gallery Press. |
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| a thousand faces |
| by John Grochalski |
| i can draw a thousand faces.
would you like to see me? i can draw a thousand faces and some of them even turn out all right. i can make them smile or frown others scowl or look pained by the day. i can draw a thousand faces whether or not i am drunk or sober. i can draw a thousand faces drinking water or beer smoking cigarettes or missing a couple of teeth. i can draw a thousand faces caught up in the afterglow men who are black-eyed dogs who are constipated cats who want to be left alone horses looking like horses pigs looking like pork chops on a wednesday night. but i can't draw women. when i draw a woman i can only draw a body with tits and a cunt. a woman's true face alludes me. but i can draw a thousand other faces. circle ones square ones oval ones black ones with beards white ones with long hair asian ones in lines of protest and sometimes i can even draw faces that are asleep. i can draw a thousand faces and i put them on matchbooks and scraps of paper bills and used up poems windows and irs forms scotch-soaked napkins in dim bars on the pages of novels that i'll never read again. i can put them on nearly anything. i can draw a thousand faces but, sadly, none of them ever look truly happy or satisfied. my faces always look hungry like there just isn't enough in the game for them to feed on anymore. sometimes my faces look like they are waiting on death or for a bus out of town. i can draw a thousand faces. and would you like to see them? most of them came from real life. |
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| Jan. 2009 |
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