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| ***BIO*** Mike Boyle lives and works in Harrisburg, PA. There's been street life, bar life and factory life in several cities.There's been songs with several bands, poems, stories, home recordings as bohobait and several novel messes. Chapbooks available: Laundromat Suite (Rank Stranger Press). Downtown Stories (Broomsnack Chaps). |
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| Attempt at grace #23 |
| by Mike Boyle |
| i'm driving down derry st
& the trees droop overhead. they're getting greener. for 8 years now, i have driven down this street in different phases. there's a blank spot there, where i'm driving in my sleep. i drive to this place i worked at 20 years ago & see my old friend there, setting cold lead type into chases & smoking. i try & talk to him but i'm dreaming, a ghost & that was not derry st anyway, was vaughn st @ the city line. he finishes what he was doing & lifts the chase into the letterpress. he seems calm, at peace. 8 years of the derry st tunnel. i severely fucked up this 2-color press i was running 3 weeks ago, broke the feeding unit. i still don't know what i did but it was an old piece of shit anyhow. i remember laughing & telling randy, you'll all thank me when they drag that piece of shit out of here. they can take all 3 of those monsters away & we'd all be better off, randy said. but that's not how it is. steve was working on it today, taking pieces of it off, finally getting all the gears apart & looking for a part # on the broken piece. there was none. 2 days he spent trying to resurrect that thing that was given to them in the first place. that's how they are. we run these old presses forever. i work in a junkyard that some call a print- shop & then drive down this tunnel. i can feel the pieces flying offa me as if i was in outer space w/o a tether but my black car is earth & sucking light. i'd like to be remembered like this, sucking light out of the rustbelt & spitting it on the page. but i don't think that's all there is |
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| Dec. 2005 |
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