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| ZYGOTE IN MY COFFEE.COM |
| ISSUE #9 $O.OO |
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| May 2004 |
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| ***BIO*** Lisa LaTourette-Pershan: Lisa is 28 and has been writing since she could hold a pencil. She spent her late teens and early twenties in a drug induced fog and has only been submitting since her return. Her poetry has appeared in remark., Viewpoint Magazine, and A Treasury of American Poetry, and she has work appearing in future issues of Ragged EDGE, The Moonwort Review and Beginnings. She lives in a deserted beachtown with a musician and many cats. |
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| RECOVERY PARADOX |
| by Lisa LaTourette-Pershan |
| I remember you: sweet thunder rolling in my belly. One more time, let me walk the pulsing jungle streets, that stink of car exhaust & blood, trade meaningless green paper for something of value; Trade myself, in small increments, payments of a diseased & rotten soul like poker chips, bits that break off easily but leave you full of holes & missing pieces. Just once more, I want to bury the needle into the landmark hole in my skin, a permanent pock-mark on the roadmap of veins that cross like tree branches on the porcelain white sky inside my arm. Sweet amber liquid lollipop dream, I need to feel the warmth of your beating heart spread through my lungs, liver, intestines; blind my eyes from the haze of distant foggy melancholy, filling me overflowing, mother nursing child. Once more, though I tremble & quiver with want, I turn away from you, smoking black ruins of my memory, For although my love for you runs deep, my hatred runs deeper. |