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***BIO*** Joseph Veronneau: I reside in Burlington, Vermont. I've been published in zines like Poet Lore, Blue Collar Review, The American Dissident, The Kept Writer, Typewriter Voodoo, Fearless, Hidden Oak, and many others. I run a chapbook publishing venue under the name Scintillating Publications, in which I've published 5 titles to date since starting it in 2000. Interested writers can email me at mustiis@aol.com
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Richard
by Joseph Veronneau
Richard-
what are  you doing now
are you still on probation?
How has that been  going for ya?
Does your wife still practice  Wicca?

Richard-
I saw your stepson the other  day,
he looked like he may have been smoking pot again,
Richard,
and I know that his therapist would not approve
of that
plus he was hanging out with one of them ghetto
thugged-out black guys from around the way-
that's not very Wiccan, Richard,
I don't think that your wife would  approve.

Did your wife finally kick her pill habit, Richard?
That was a nasty habit, indeed.
Doing pills until she passes out
and then your probation officer comes by to check up
on you and your wife is laying there, limp
that will not  leave a good impression on them at all
Richard,
you know that though.

Glad to hear you finished your community service,  Richard,
they gave you a lot of hours just for having taken
a  few extra dollars out of your register during your shift,
but they did  fail to give you that raise that they promised
you now, didn't they?!

I guess it served them right, eh Richard?
Do you still drive the same beat up Ford Taurus?

Does your wife practice Wicca in your
Ford  Taurus while you drive your son away
from that ghetto thug nigger to his therapy session
as you blast Metallica and go to your  weekly
group therapy session yourself, Richard?

Well, do you?
July 2005
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