Joseph V. Milford ========================================= Two Poems from “After the Mermaids Have Gone, Vol. 1” 16. I’m free of the anvil That hath killed all my Neighbors [insert Norwegian death metal shredding] I’m free of the succubus And have been sodomized By Muses [insert Norwegian death metal shredding] The occult, with its Focus on freedom Is in the gutters and tapwater Of this smalltown venue [insert Norwegian death metal shredding]
24. My heroes didn’t hear my songs And I didn’t hear theirs until they were dead We miss each other and don’t even know Our own cornbread with cracklings, the stale musty
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