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ISSUE #39
 
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May 2005
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***BIO*** Patrick Carrington: I was born and raised in the boroughs of New York City. I teach language arts and creative writing in southern New Jersey and live on a secluded beach with my wife and the ocean we love.
My poetry is forthcoming in various print journals, including Willard & Maple, Bardsong, Poetry Motel, and Clark Street Review, and on-line at Carnelian, Thieves Jargon, Clean Sheets and mannequin envy.
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Hard Candy
by Patrick Carrington
Lipstick smiles and fishnet invitations
to sugar heaven, a perfume paradise
that pulls you through the tunnel
with aroma, sticky thoughts
of candy on street corners.
And now you seek out
red lights.

The stopping sucks
one to your window,
a slice of strawberry
who will fuck you for five dollars
and your watch,

  
but baby, it's a Rolex,
   good to 5 fathoms


and cut your throat for free.