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| ***BIO*** James H Duncan is a New York native, part-time Taoist, and editor of Hobo Camp Review. Although a graduate of Southern Vermont College, he considers himself a lifelong student of the road, picking up non-credit courses in local dive bars, all-night cafes, and used book stores. Plainsongs, Red Fez, Gutter Eloquence Magazine, and Reed Magazine, among others, have welcomed his poetry. Bird War Press released his fourth collection, "Maybe a Bird Will Sing," in June of 2009. More at www.jhdwriting.com |
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| The greatest star of all |
| by James H. Duncan |
| every corner of LA has a missing tooth,
a gaping hole where once there was some man or woman or beast of note, a house or a bar where the actor once stood, but now has turned out of sight, danced away as it came on the merry-go-round of LA sunsets for those who have stopped hunting, a bar in Montrose at 9 a.m. is enough, out of the lights, out of the mind, the darkness of the bar is perfect the drunkness of the bar is perfect time means nothing until someone mentions how the star once shined on that very seat and it is back out into the street the lines of steel and sweat, and the tires hang onto the car with their last teeth and the edge of chipped nails every corner of LA has a wrinkle and a stain sometimes the stain is beautiful, but the wrinkle appears and the lights dim and the stain looks more like bourbon than beauty dried bourbon, nothing usable or kind the skyline flaming green with disease at night the airplanes setting fire to the clouds the young killing the old only to be killed, and the busses all run late, metal slugs the fever and swell of LA grows each morning and even the mountains like the backs of a thousand hissing cats turn away, weary from the madness of every burning fire every black-hole death of LA stardom every simple gasp of hard, forgotten living only the sun beckons, the greatest star of all, destined to drown in the final Pacific showdown |
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| Mar. 2010 |
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