#31daysofhalloween | alternative facts
"After all, / everything's a catastrophe when you're knee deep in machinery.
Everything monstrous when you're a monster. / America like a spider in its mechanical web / while the markets grew fat and fell. "
If anyone has heard me read via zoom or spotted anything I've published in journals in the last year or so , my pride and joy has been this little series of poems based on tabloid headlines of yore, which seemed to be the perfect subject matter in an era an fake news and other nonsense. Since they are filled with monsters (both real and metaphorical) this month seemed the perfect time to pull them together into an e-zine as a #31daysofhalloween offering to the poetry gods.
You can read it here.
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