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| ***BIO*** Mike Meraz is a poet from Los Angeles who currently lives in New Orleans. He is the author of two books of poetry “Black-Listed Poems” and “All Beautiful Things Travel Alone.” Both are available at Lulu.com and Amazon.com. He is also the editor of Black-Listed Magazine |
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| The World Climbs Upon My Back |
| by mike meraz |
| it was a madmans room,
full of small books, homemade chapbooks he had crafted himself. he was my favorite (living) poet and now here he was standing before me. I looked about the room in reverence because I knew this was a place that created great works. inconspicuous as it was, it wreaked of authenticity. you knew this was the beast that haunted other poets at night, you knew this was the beast that startled the minds of his readers. but there he was actually a little man, not in stature but in presence, nervously looking about, pleased by my presence but in a way waiting for me to leave. I flipped through one of his homemade chapbooks and thought, "this is the real deal" no pretense, no fanfare, no come see me, just a man writing words in a lonely house waiting not for fame, though he was famous, waiting not for glory though many respected him, lost in his pain, and I mean lost. I closed one of his chapbooks and said goodbye. there was nothing I could do for him. he was the living embodiment of the human condition and I loved him. |
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| Dec. 2009 |
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