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***BIO*** Joseph Goosey wishes to escape his residence in Jacksonville, Florida.He has one chapbook available via Poptritus Press and one forthcoming via Shadow Archer Press.  He is currently at work and would like to leave so he can buy a $1 Guinness. He loves you for reading
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BANJO TUNES
by Joseph Goosey
Pacing the room praying
to a god you don't call
that the chandelier
will malfunction.

The air conditioner sings
as you tell me
I do not care
for your poems.

I care for your poems. I say.

But poems aren't tigers
and they can't play your favorite banjo tunes
when you are in need
of consolation,

so it's a wet subject any way you spit.

Mr.Spradley comes quick
to fix everything. We don't know
his first name and he thinks
we are your brother. They don't make
shit like they used to make shit,
he shouts, leaning
on your car.

No, Mr.Spradley, I guess they don't.
It's hot. He says.
It's always hot the whole mulch floor is a pretty metal.
I'll be in the attic. He says.
Let me know, I say,
if you discover
an exit.
Dec. 2009
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