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Thursday, January 23, 2014

TALKING HEAD: LEFT AND RIGHT

by C.S. Fuqua


Image source: Outside the Beltway


Brat,
with a gift to make
crazy sound sane,
speaks gibberish,
calls it fact,
and his group of loonies
cheer him on,
enact his whims.
Irresponsible,
indefensible,
unconscionable,
giddy
all the way
to the bank.


C.S. Fuqua's published books include White Trash & Southern ~ Collected Poems ~ Vol. I, Hush, Puppy! A Southern Fried Tale (children’s picture book), Rise Up (short fiction collection), The Native American Flute: Myth, History, Craft, Trust Walk (short fiction collection), The Swing: Poems of Fatherhood, Divorced Dads, and Notes to My Becca, among others. His work has appeared in publications such as Main Street Rag, Pudding, Dark Regions, Iodine, Christian Science Monitor, Cemetery Dance, Bogg, Year's Best Horror Stories XIX, XX and XXI, Amelia, Slipstream, The Old Farmer's Almanac, The Writer, and Honolulu Magazine.