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***BIO*** J.J. Campbell (1976 - ?) lives, writes but mostly dies a slow death on an 80 acre farm in Brookville, Ohio. He's been widely published in the small press, most recently at Underground Voices, ZYX, Art:Mag, Chiron Review and Horror Sleaze Trash. His first full length book of poems is scheduled to be released in 2012 from Interior Noise Press. You can contact J.J. via email jcampb4593@aol.com or his homepage: http://sites.google.com/site/losersincsite/
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the sting of failure
by J.J. Campbell
sitting in my
room listening
to a prince
album

thinking of the
suave mother
fucker i never
could be in high
school

and my depression
constantly lets me
know even with
what i know now

i could go back
and still not be
able to pull off
cool

i live in the past
to torture myself

but there's no
pleasure in this
pain

just the sting
of failure

a bitterness that
has no expiration
date
April 2012
137