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i am nothing
by John Dorsey
more    than the sun
beating down                     
                       pistol whipping
your lips   with lines

of a poem    i've yet to
write

nothing more
than a small fish    in some
big daddy pond


balling    on the sandy midnight
mexican coast
that touch of evil        god made smiles for

nothing more
than that bullet    in key west             
              pappa's gun

if words failed    to save bob kaufman
failed to make jazz
what chance do you have?

we both know  how this
is going to end  
words    like mercy won't
save   anyone
***BIO*** John Dorsey is 27yrs old, and has been working in the small press since the age of 15.  He is the author 7 chapbooks and several broadsides, as well as the uncoming chapbook "Word Hustling Manifesto" with Debbie Kirk, and Little Boy Beat: Selected Poems from Paladin Music & Ent, inc.  His work has recently appeared in fearless, poesy, babel magazine, shoes magazine, children, churches & daddies, and the blindman's rainbow, amongst others.  He will also have work in upcoming issues of Mystery Island,  and The James River Poetry Review.