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***BIO*** Greg Braquet exists in New Orleans, but like most poets lives in a world of his own schmoosing.  His poetry has appeared in such publications as The New Laurel Review, THEMA, The Tap Root Review, Lucid Stone, Desire Street, Poetry Life & Times, The Breath Magazine,  Red River Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Pierian Springs, Tryst, Side Reality, The Adagio Verse Quarterly, The Little Green Tricycle, The Junket, Tin Lustre, L'Intrigue, Branches Quarterly, Stylus Poetry Journal, Subtle Tea, The Exquisite Corpse, Slow Trains, and The Melic Review.  He was a recipient of the Delirium Journal's 2003 Choice Award, and placed third in the 2005 Eugene Walter Writers Festival.  He is the Featured Poet in the current issue of The Hiss Quarterly.
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celebrity status quo
by Greg Braquet
tinkering on the crosshairs
where functional insanity

is a viable survival tactic
in a world gone real to reel

with reality, i'm thinking
about going for "it," - for

lack of a better pronoun -
and  all the time I'm wondering

if  being star struck can be
viewed as a case of simple

battery by a cathode-ray tube
on a village idiot who has

become the representative
sample from a cultured medium

of crowded baby boomers
that naturally mutated into

the "me-generation' as a
solution to lost-in-the-crowd

syndrome, which gets me back
to my quandary: to be (noticed )

or not to be (noticed) . or
is "it" - for lack of a better

pronoun - all just the virtual
whisky talking in my ear.
                   ~

fifteen minutes does
not a famous person make
go to hell andy
June 2006
64