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***BIO*** Dagny Nogy resides in rural Pennsylvania with her husband and children. Her full-time job is being the maid, nurse, peacekeeper, role model, cook, dishwasher and a1 nagging mom to four wonderfully unruly children. In her moments off, she writes fiction and poetry. She’s been published at remark. and claims that she’s soon to have a poem or two published at high horse.

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Jukebox Conversations

by Dagny Nogy

Beneath the dirty table in the dirty bar,
he touches the dirty girl with rotting teeth,
grinning - not exposing her decaying mouth
full of smoke and coke, betrayals and secrets.

And the songs blare their jukebox conversations,
resounding the harmonious confessions of
their nauseous desire, no other lover suspect,
as they nod to the beat of betrayal.

Opportunely they merge,
a hasty collision with the already
battered wall in the bathroom thick
with the stench of
urine and vomit and sweat.

They revel in their diseased knowledge,
damp, high, drunk, infected - like a
filthy demon fresh from a slaughter
clutching in his talons the bleeding heart
of his prey still beating to the sick melody of

deceit.

Oct. 2006