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ISSUE #30
 
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Dec. 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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breakdown
by D.B. Cox
pushed too hard
we’ve got what
they paid for
now

black-clad
babyface terminators
bent by a common
denominator

traveling, strapped,
across school yards
like stray dogs --
battered

one too many times
by young
beasts of prey
who have always

stalked hallways
of lower learning
while helpless
reflections

caught
in the glass
of classroom windows
keep turning pages –

hoping the answer
that might slow
this crazy breakdown
will show itself soon