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June 2004
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***BIO*** Joseph Veronneau:  I reside in Burlington, Vermont. I've been published in zines like Poet Lore, Blue Collar Review, The American Dissident, The Kept Writer, Typewriter Voodoo, Fearless, Hidden Oak, and many others. I run a chapbook publishing venue under the name Scintillating Publications, in which I've published 5 titles to date since starting it in 2000. Interested writers can email me at mustiis@aol.com
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To the Founding Fathers Of
Politically Correct Poetry Institute
by Joseph Veronneau
You are not a friend,
even though you try to pretend
in your silently nodding ways.

Your pen is too full of ink,
somebody should be hired to make sure
you don't get too carried away
with that thing

You healer of wrongs by convenient
forgetfulness
emptying your falsehood into
cut and paste empathy.

You are rotting at the core and somebody
needs to take you out
and empty you.

You make a bed and invite me
to lay in it
with you, pale visions of what I had
in mind.

Deceiving all thinkers into thinking
that this is the only way to be had
like a bad case of the flu that decides
to pull up a chair and stay,
insulting our intelligence

creating the fog that drifts to the minds
of those sitting academically in chairs,
the walls resonating a closure of opinion.

Shit, I wouldn't even want you as
a distant cousin
and even if we were the last
to remain on concrete
in some backwoods town
where squirrels chase each other

I wouldn't breed with you.