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By MELISSA HANSEN, on 25-03-2008 12:00

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Swan Song (5:30 AM)

 
My friend's voice
wafts into the dark
from which I,
drying off from showering,
am feeling my way.
I hear him say something else
in a hushed tone
as the floorboard clicks.
 
I usually can tell
many things from talking to a person:
their age, race, how educated.
 
But these tones are soft,
quiet.
I dissect nothing.
 
In solitude dream
he hears how those gone before him
have heard others speak:
Let me be the first to know that
you are here, relaxed as well
running your cool fingers through hair,
drifting toward sunlight like shadows
but let me sleep
just a bit more.







Continued...





Mandy

 
Talking to her
through her screen door
she stood;
her boyfriend
that I had never before seen
sat there next to her,
caressing her hand and shoulder softly
as we spoke.
 
That whole summer
at eleven years
I wandered out
contemplating how it would feel
to sit next to love,
caressing each nail polished
finger.







How To End

 
The calamity consumes
the veins are easier to identify now
than ever.
I miss the last hurrah, and yearn for
a morning with new shoes
to walk me through days,
leaving behind soggy mornings
saturated in loathing,
heavy in my slender frame.
I wish not the wrath
of judgmental eyes, the pregnant women
competing with each other
to see who can give birth first,
the egotistical men speaking of beer
and breasts
when it's really miles away from them.
Let the competition
end here
with this sweat-induced delusion,
my grandeur.






Joseph Veronneau has had poems appear or are forthcoming in the following
publications: Ghoti, Word Riot, Read Herrings Journal, Off Beat Pulp, Clockwise Cat, The Smoking Poet, Hecale, Mastodon Dentist, Chantarelle's Notebook, Cerebral Catalyst, Locust, Thieves Jargon, Other Side of The Ragged Edge and many others.  He also runs Scintillating Publications, a chapbook publishing press. You may contact Joseph via Scintillating Publications or myspace.

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