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| June 2004 |
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| ***BIO*** Shane Allison's poems have been published in Velvet Mafia, Coal City Review, Suspect Thoughts, Babel Magazine, Chiron Review and others. He has poems forthcoming in The Glut and remark. He lives in New York. His chapbook, Ceiling of Mirrors is out from Cynic Press. |
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| Sonnet in Orange Avenue Projects |
| by Shane Allison |
| Junior, Connie’s son, wanted to see my dick In the woods of Orange Avenue projects when I was twelve. He looked at it while I pissed in a ditch. Wanted him to touch it, but he shook his head, no. Funny that he knew the slang term for penis at his age. I got jealous when he tried to get under Mekeeba’s skirt: Boyish hands up girlish thighs. No one cares about sexual harassment in the projects. We sat on Wabelline’s porch, bein’ children, smellin’ Like wet dogs from all the playin’. “Hush all that fuss,” she yelled. Junior told his sister Jennifer, that I had a big dick. He promised not to tell, But kids break their promises like pencils in Orange Avenue Projects. |