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Stevieslaw: My poem on New Verse News

Big day today. Here is my poem on New Verse News: Slum Lord You send the beef in bowling shirts and shitkicker boots every Sunday morning to collect from the perennial poor in the claptraps you own on Stone Avenue. … Continue reading

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Stevieslaw: Karen’s Joseph Cornell poem

http://www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrastic-review/joseph-cornell-ekphrastic-writing-challenge-responses My wife, Karen, has her first pubished poem on The Ekphrastic Review today.  It’s in response to a Joseph Cornell box. The link is above. The poem is here: Utopia Parkway Joseph Cornell rode the bus from 3708 Utopia … Continue reading

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Stevieslaw: Je veux rentrer chez moi

Stevieslaw: Je veux rentrer chez moi. The sound of relentless sobbing, so loud that it deprived most New Yorkers of sleep last night was traced in the early morning to a despondent Statue of Liberty. Liberty had dropped her torch … Continue reading

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Stevieslaw: My March Voices Column

DIY* or DYI** By the time Smokey’s second engine seized up, she had already saved $138.17 by pumping her own gas. I suppose it would be fair to also count the money she saved on oil, since she never checked … Continue reading

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Stevieslaw: Contest, Contest, Contest

As I’m sure you have all heard by now, first class mail is expected to take even longer to deliver than its current eight or nine days, when the post office initiates its new austerity measures by closing down. Here, … Continue reading

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