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***BIO*** Bradley Mason Hamlin is a writer and publisher, born in Los Angeles and
currently living in "Capitol City" Sacramento, California with his beautiful wife Nicky and their many amazing children. His poetry and short stories have appeared in several small press magazines in print and on line and he
is the creator of the metaphysical crime series: Monster Zipper, featuring the Intoxicated Detective, available at:
www.mysteryisland.net
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RIDING THE RAILS
by Bradley Mason Hamlin
of this incredible cliché
the passion of apple pie
untouched
while the vanilla melts
a girl with bright red lips
sitting on a barstool
revealing high thigh
and the devil’s highway
my head spinning
whiskey mantras
and all the other whacked
images that modern poetry
suffers from
suicidal thoughts
I’d never act upon
wouldn’t want to miss
the next episode
of some show I’ll forget
come summer
and madness
poets like to talk about
insanity
romancing the pain
and suffering
of mental illness
and drunk
drunken
drunkenness
or childish
dreams of the junky
shock value
from a shell-shocked world
Christ-
jumped off the cross
did a secret Watusi
and we were all
too stupid
too selfish
to ever understand
those cool moves.
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Dec. 2005