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ISSUE #39
 
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May 2005
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***BIO*** J.J. Campbell (b. 1976) lives, writes and dies a little each day in Brookville, Ohio. He's been widely published in the last decade in the small press, most recently in Remark, My Favorite Bullet, Prose Ax, Underground Voices and Thunder Sandwich. J.J.'s latest chapbook, "feel my disease", was recently published by Scintillating Publications (Burlington, VT).  You can contact J.J. via email at: jcampb4593@aol.com
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they claim i never think of others
by J.J. Campbell
i got light headed
the other day while
masturbating in the shower

i stopped, maybe four or five
strokes away from completion,
took some deep breaths
ran some cold water
over my face

anything to try to
compose myself

i knew if i pressed my luck
i'd pass out, hit my head
and die

hand still wrapped
around my cock

i'm pretty sure my family
and friends would not like
to read about my inevitable
demise under a headline that read

POET DIES WHILE MASTURBATING IN SHOWER

and they claim
i never think
of others