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***BIO*** Eddie Kilowatt prefers summer to winter but still lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His first book, Manifest Density, was released in spring 2006 and is followed in fall 2007 by Carrying a Knife in to the Gunfight. Both are released under his own press, Full Contact Publishing. Eddie rides motorcycles year round and currently works as a doorman.
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by Eddie Kilowatt
talking with this girl
on the telephone
I tell her
I'm arguing with
reading novels
lately.

I say,
I'm not responsible enough
to have a novel
right now.
It's all poems lately.

I tell her I think of reading books
like dating,
you spend time with one
for a little while
until it agitates you
for whatever reason
then you spend time
with one of the others
until
the same happens.

I always read several books
at a time
I tell her.

Huh.
her voice slows
as she says,
I can only ever
read one book
at a time

the phone quiet
quiet

Hm.
I guess I probably shouldn't tell you
how many books I'm reading
right now?

Yeah,
she says,
probably not.
Aug. 2007
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