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***BIO*** My name is Catfish McDaris. I've been active in the small press world for 20 years.After 3 years G.I. Joe, I hopped freights & hitchhiked across the U.S. & Mexico. I built adobe houses, tamed wild horses, made cattle troughs, worked in a zinc smelter, & painted flag poles. I lived in a cave & wintered in a Chevy in Denver. I ended at the post office in Milwaukee, a catfish farm is next, I hope.
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Death Is Quiet
by Catfish McDaris
As I approach 60 calendars
I realize I am not afraid to
hold court in the streets

Waking after another night
of debauchery, cocaine, whores
tequila, cerveza, & Hendrix

The sun pissing yellow
through the tattered
living room curtains

Gaudy paint splashed all
over the walls from the
drunken poet claiming

To be the son of Bukowski
I felt like the inside of
a hungry camel’s asshole

I started throwing everyone
out, including my latest
ugly snoring conquest

Crawling back into bed, I
dreamed of Paris with the
sunlight shining on the Eiffel
Tower & all the tomorrows
that never materialize.
April 2012
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