| this is oh so blue A MAGAZINE OF FICTION, POETRY & MORE! |
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| ZYGOTE IN MY COFFEE.COM |
| ISSUE #14 $O.OO |
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| July 2004 |
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| ***BIO*** D.B. Cox: Blues musician/poet, originally from South Carolina, currently resides in Watertown Massachusetts. Uses a Les Paul Standard, tuned to Open E chord for slide guitar, and prefers a glass slide to a metal one. No longer takes requests when he plays out. |
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| by D.B. Cox |
| "I'm a Vietnam veteran. I gave America my all, and the leaders of this government threw me and others away to rot in their VA hospitals…" – Ron Kovic sometimes at night after the last light has been doused, & the holy drugs have rendered me temporarily oblivious to the pain, & putrid night-smells of the ward, i can feel the void that stretches out from my body in every direction; 360 degrees of seclusion, as dead as a disconnected phone. & sometimes, i reach blindly into that coal-black absence, hoping my fingers will brush against something i can hold onto. maybe a wayward angel, who might allow a little unaccustomed mercy, & lift me above these broken places; back to the days & faces, i hadn’t even known i’d loved. |