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***BIO*** Ross Vassilev was born in 1976 in Sofia, Bulgaria and now lives in Ohio. He is 6' 1" and balding and pumps iron to compensate. His work can be read online at Zygote in my Coffee, Censored Poets, and Strange Road.
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trying to be of use
by Ross Vassilev
i wake around noon
the alarm clock
won’t speak to me
until i get a job.

my sense of being
in the universe
somewhere between
a gnat on a horse’s
ass and a potato.

there’s a half-dozen
bottles on the counter
lined up in a row
waiting for
Andy Warhol
to come back from
the dead and
paint them.

i’m useless
as the rusting hulks
of abandoned steel
factories.

the Hell’s Angels are
roaring by outside
back from their latest
revenge killing
distributing meth
from Ohio to
California

doing something
useful with their lives.
June 2007
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