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By Pat King, on 12-04-2007 20:06

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Doug Holder is the founder of the Ibbetson Street Press. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe Magazine, Poesy, Buckle, HAZMAT, and many others. Two of his collections of poetry will be released in 2007 " No One Dies At the Au Bon Pain" ( sunnyoutside.com)
"Of All the Meals I Had Before" ( http://www.cervenabarvapress.com)

Old Black Man Laughing At Me



As I passed him

I heard the guttural laugh

the knee slapping

the astringent

mixture of the hilarious

and sinister.

We were partners of sorts

with no formal introduction.

He knew what

my sorry ass had been up to.

How I made

that m-f  mole hill

into a mountain.

And I better

move my bone-ugly hide--

And save

that chicken-shit walk

that head -tilting attitude

for someone who hasn't

seen it before,

and has time

to give

a good  God

damn.





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Father Knows Best, Mother Does The Rest


*From that TV series: Father Knows Best,
and the 1950's at large then and even today.


The bland tyranny

of the cardigan sweater.

His smile

creased in brutal condescension.

Mother corseted

in apron strings.

Bud

with a Greaser's

black defiant lock

rushes to the freedom

of the door.

Father yells

"Princess!"

and she arrives

dancing with the dog

with an anxious, scripted

girlish giggle.

And don't you think

think they would like to kill him 

... just a little?

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By: Michael Grover (Registered IP 70.146.58.186) on 12-04-2007 20:48

Yes man, the crazy laugh that only he knows!

 

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"Mother corseted in apron strings." Ah, the cult of domesticity!

 

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