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| ***BIO*** Jack T. Marlowe is a writer of poetry and short fiction.
A native of Dallas, Texas, Jack is the founder and host
of the "Outlaws of the Spoken Word" open mic reading.
He also irritates the hell out of people with his tendency
to turn a normal conversation into a pun-fest.
You can find him online at www.inkandblood.net |
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| fine dining in bubba-land |
| by Jack T. Marlowe |
| fat elbows support
the porcine torso as it hunches over a heaping plate of barbecue and sides the hulking frame, shrinkwrapped with a dingy white wifebeater shirt, pulls back from the table for a moment one giant paw wiping congealed brown sauce from slobbering jaw the other scratching the sweat-dank recess of a soap-starved armpit before returning to the chore of shovelling more slop into the boorish snout. all the while, i can't stop staring despite the gut instinct to regurgitate kinda like staring at a fatality on the freeway despite the gut instinct to take the first available exit. i cut my meal short, sparing myself the trouble of a few more pounds to lose— and what a relief that i didn't lose my lunch. |
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| Jan. 2007 |
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