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Sydney Lea's avatar

Great from start to finish, though, er, of course, I am partial to ‘Sydney’

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Peter Johnson's avatar

Wow, that's a surprise.

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Don Soucy's avatar

My only successful love poem was written in red ink:

Roses are red

Violets are blue

I like peanut butter

Do you skate?

I wrote it for Sandra next door, who, at ten, was older than me but had lots of freckles and a gap-toothed smile that drove me wild. She told me shyly that she liked peanut butter, too.

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Peter Johnson's avatar

Ah, the days when you could unabashedly write innocent love poetry and everyone wasn't allergic to peanuts.

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Thomas Molitor's avatar

"While The Undertaker Sleeps:

Truscon, A Division of Republic Steel, 1969-70"

Great stuff, Peter!

Picking up the book at this very moment,

I noticed for the first time the epigraph

you used to kick off the collection:

"These happenings happened at one time or another,

or almost did, or never did, but their virtue is that

they happen every time they are told." - Eduardo Galeano

Isn't this what all fiction writers desire and love:

Freedom from the facts?

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Peter Johnson's avatar

Yes, I don't believe in Kelly Ann Conway's "alternative facts," but I do believe in "facts of the imagination."

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Thomas Molitor's avatar

Orwell smiles

from the grave.

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