Dion Dimucci sings
“Why must I be a teenager in love?” ignorant of the simple answer because he is blessed blessed with love in youth the only time love can be so simple and the reason we don’t sing “Why do I hafta be middle-aged and in love?” is that we’re busy and trying to keep our confusions to ourselves because we can’t let anyone know we’re barely holding on "oldies" is excerpted from "Threads, Knots, Scissors" which first appeared in my first master's thesis titled Lines of Separation August 13, 2000. It later appeared in the chapbook Wedding Songs August 29, 2004.
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Froggy saxophone in the night
laying hollow layers of mourning on the aspirin-shrouded corpse of a party. first appeared in Star*Line V.15#3 for May/June 1992 collected in Olives: a Jar Full of Small Pokes October 20, 1995 reprinted in Micropoetry May 7, 2015 |
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