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| ***BIO*** Lisa LaTourette's poems and short stories have appeared extensively in the small press, in publications such as remark., Zygote in my Coffee, Mouseion, Words Dance, The Moonwort Review, OpenWide Magazine, Snow Monkey, My Favorite Bullet and others. For other poems, reviews, links to online work, or to buy her collection, "Down These Narrow Alleys: Poems & Stories" visit http://www.lisalatourette.com/ or email her at lisa@lisalatourette.com. Lisa welcomes emails from like-minded souls. |
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| married to a musician |
| by Lisa LaTourette |
| winter is the season for arthritis, so
a recluse stays inside dark horse & dripping faucets, every light in the place is on, I have even opened the microwave door to take advantage of one more sunny bulb I turn on the television, turn it down, turn it off; I have a pattern when you're out playing your tunes smoke & eat & smoke & eat it would seem I'm hell bent on developing either a fat ass or cancer, whichever comes first, I suppose... I go to sleep & dream uneasy dreams over & over in grainy black & white reality: sweet secret melodies pouring out over the crowd beneath fans that circulate cigarette smoke & lust & eyes like foxes to engage you I take my paranoia very seriously & have cultivated it for many years, but thoughts of sitting social in a bar engaging in the mind-numbing tedium of spiritless small talk causes my heart & other organs to quiver with dull & rapid fear; midnight is best between your own walls protected from the burdens of loud noise & clinking glasses, with the comfort of familiar shadows on rumpled sheets, but still I'm anxious, waiting for the truth of your key in our front door. |
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| July 2006 |
| 65 |