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| my heart smelt of rotting flesh |
| by John Dorsey |
| (for debbie) was homeless skipping beats lost a phantom d.j. spinning the sun like a top you smiled that voice whispering floating across the plains of texas in a suitcase that once held weathered copies of "weird tales" our crazy sad reality and the broken dreams of robert e. howard that sparrow turned chicken hawk imagined your average modest warrior i had never gone this far for love my heart smelt of rotting flesh and the musk once placed on the neck of my sweetly departed friend albert huffstickler who sat humming through his teeth having left me to walk on alone with only my thumbs for luck throwing two pennies over my eyes claiming they were constellations of your design a map that might throw a rope around the outline of my heart |
| ***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. |