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| ***BIO*** Glen Lantz is 48 years old and lives in Dubuque, Iowa. He has a BA and a MA in Sociology from the University of Northern Iowa. His work has appeared in 10K Poets Zine, Bad Marmalade, Calliope Nerve, Clockwise Cat, the Curious Record, Deep Tissue Magazine, Ditch, the Dubuque Area Writer’s Guild 2009 Anthology Music & Dance, Full of Crow, Heroin Love Songs, Lines Written W/ a Razor, Lost Souls in the Fishbowl Anthology by Subculture Books, Madswirl, the Plebian Rag, Poetry Now, and Zygote in my Coffee. |
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| The Testicles Reach Out |
| by Glen Lantz |
| like the phantom arms of some octopus
always doubling up on the same mistakes covered by the festering forever black clouds slope on down there is no boom only bust struggling in shark infested waters stay as long as you can the currents bring cold waters muttering under breath under narrow minds narrow twisted meaningless lives the curious smell of Hashish down from the mountains down into the cold night air putting on your hustling smile you sweep your broom into madness a plaza full of drunkenness the trace of lust still lingers smoothed out and dismembered time spent in youthful veins a hideous burned hunger still speaks of the time you shared silent stains of addiction passing by on nightly trains falling into the black hole no one warned us of the exit as the horrid mist poured out faces dissolve in acid memories only a voice hovers above a disembodied voice once the voice of reason now just one of the millions you hear inside your head never getting a chance consulting an invisible oracle serving fragmented livers crows peck for prophecy the curse if the spirit can be seen in your eyes |
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| Dec. 2009 |
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