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June 2004
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***BIO*** David Bates: Born in 1973 and currently residing in Austin, TX.  Chapbooks include "Punched the Moon it Wouldn't Fall" (2001, Interior Noise Press) and "Cashing in the Devil's Luck" (2002, Interior Noise Press.)  Co-Founder and Editor of MY FAVORITE BULLET poetry mag. (myfavoritebullet.com)
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Identity Crisis
by David Bates

attempting to light
your cigarette lighter in the wind
w/the patience & determination
of a man attempting to
light a cigarette lighter in the wind

you once believed Love was an
incurable madness
& you laugh at yourself as
you roll the flint wheel against the flint

a man in a BMW pulls up to the curb
to solicit you
mistaking you for a prostitute