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| ***BIO*** john sweet, 35, with some of this and some of that, the unnerving influence of mogwai, the writings of jackson pollock, the sad death of kay sage, and always the white light of the winter sun.
20+ years of words, 2 hands to show for it, and rust on the cars.new e-chapbook (silence in the house of truths) at www.tmpoetry.com, a printed collection on the fading trend of paper from pinkanarchkitty press (enemy) approaching with grim determination. and so on. new chapbook out from www.leafpress.ca. |
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| woman with a naked man on a leash |
| by john sweet |
| and what if she’s a soldier
and what if he’s a prisoner? what if they crawl towards different gods? eventually you start to think in terms of winners and losers you stop worrying about the children burned alive in churches and the ones with bombs taped to their chests you stop counting the number of pregnant teenage girls raped and then shot to death where they lie you come home from work and kiss your wife or maybe you don’t maybe she’s taken the baby and disappeared maybe she’s swallowed drano and crawled beneath the kitchen table to die and did you see it coming? not if you were the cause not if all you could think about was your lover’s naked body and it’s not the idea of guilt that i’m going for here it’s the idea of failure a war that cannot be won and a president who grows fat on the corpses of soldiers who says their deaths are meaningful but then can’t explain why who refuses to believe that the starving need more than shit to eat but wait i was talking about this frightened man lying on the floor in a pool of his own piss i was talking about the reasons susan smith might have had for murdering her children i was talking about god but it kept coming out wrong |
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| April 2006 |
| 62 |