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***BIO*** Ross Vassilev was born in Bulgaria and now lives in Ohio where he edits Opium Poetry webzine (http://opiumpoetry.blogspot.com/) and goes a little more insane every day. He may soon need to put on glasses too.
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upon realizing things will never get any better
by Ross Vassilev
dusk falling through the windows
and i’m half asleep
thinking of little girls jumping rope
of Hitler and his dog
pyramids of human skulls in Cambodia
and the dead rats in my head.
a wasted life
            my screaming parents
the lousy jobs in warehouses and
supermarkets and restaurant kitchens
            sitting in my room, the sunlight
            dripping cancer from the walls.
i remember that time i had to walk home
in the rain down a broken discarded street
white litter everywhere
thinking
maybe the Gods gave up
and quit trying.
Nov. 2009
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