| this is oh so blue A MAGAZINE OF FICTION, POETRY & MORE! |
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| ISSUE #37 $O.OO |
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| April 2005 |
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| ***BIO*** Lisa LaTourette: Lisa LaTourette is a 29 year old poet and fiction writer. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in My Favorite Bullet, remark., Mouseion, The Ragged Edge, The Moonwort Review, Expose'd, Words Dance and others. Her work has been included in such anthologies as A Treasury of American Poetry, and her first book, 'Down These Narrow Alleys: Poems & Stories' will be released in 2005. Check out some of her poems at http://www.raggededge.btinternet.co.uk/otherside9ind.htm, where she is featured with 6 other poets, and her short stories at http://www.themoonwortreview.com/Lisa%20LaTourette-Pershan.htm |
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| by Lisa LaTourette |
| by the time i was 20
i knew i wanted as few obligations as humanly possible to clutter my adult life. i didn't want a degree i didn't want a career i didn't care about making money, getting ahead; i only wanted to live to be free to have time to read books, write poems and be left alone. now, at 30, i know that obligations MAKE UP adult life and that every time i look over my shoulder something will always be waiting: car insurance, registration deadlines, electric bills, speeding tickets, flat tires, bounced check fees, holidays, phone calls to return, broken TVs, broken fillings, broken hearts... i sit on my couch stubborn and rebellious ignoring the blink-blink of that goddamn answering machine, winter raging outside, a spoiled child, cup of hot tea ashtray getting full alongside my holy stacks of books, notebooks, deep sigh pretending the millions of seething bubbling crawling responsibilities don't exist. |