| this is oh so blue A MAGAZINE OF FICTION, POETRY & MORE! |
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| ZYGOTE IN MY COFFEE.COM |
| ISSUE #34 $O.OO |
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| March 2005 |
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| ***BIO*** D.B. Cox: DB Cox is a blues musician/poet born in Laurens, South Carolina. He now resides just outside of Boston in Watertown, Massachusetts.
He loves writing poetry for the same reason he loves playing the guitar -- a way to communicate how he feels, at a given time, on a given day. His poems have appeared in many literary publications, both on-line and in print. His first book “Passing For Blue” is now available from Rank Stranger Press. You can contact the publisher by Email at AWHITLEY2@nc.rr.com, or by regular mail at Rank Stranger Press, 313 Smith Chapel Rd., Mount Olive, NC 28365, Charles Whitley, editor. |
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| breakdown lane |
| by D.B. Cox |
| the bus rolls somewhere
between sundown and tupelo the old gunfighter sleeps sitting up—uneasy turning an old movie over in his head a monochrome masterpiece from yesteryear— surrounded by other bandits always willing to give away what they could never get back— a little red blood between blue lines back before the whole goddamn thing wore thin as the ass of his pants & he found himself alone— displaced in time surrounded by bloodless souls contemporary mercenaries who could wrap a five-note minor scale around the neck of a 7th chord & strangle it into submission— fucking mercy-killers sighting down the barrels of saxophones & trombones like a terrorist death-squad sending a message with too many words to jean baptiste illinois jacquet— saying something like: “fuck the melody” the grand old man groans in his sleep dreaming of a 49 buick roadmaster burning fast in the breakdown lane— |
| (--- for Illinois Jacquet) |