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from Life As A Crossword Puzzle
3. Down Beyond the screen door, sidewalks busy with unshaved men. Junked- up minivans tear down avenues, tinted windows mounted with bumperstickers reading – “Fight Terrorism: Eat at Denny’s.” 13. Across for James Riber
The conversation ends with a sigh.Enough is enough. The emptiness of a white room passes time like solitaire. Nothing will ever be as it once was, when we listened to music backwards and dreamed of making love to the police. Tonight, the television plugs the World Series – the elevator is cluttered with cancer patient footprints and on the fourth floor, grandpa is plugged with pins on his deathbed. The Inner Voice of Dog Trainers I too will shed tiny black hairs I too will slobber on squeaky, polka dot toys * dog, things make no difference * you are not in the doghouse you are not in the electro-fenced-in-yard * this life is composed of nametag dishware, carbon dioxide and invigorating tastebuds * the dog breathes: de ja vu – a moment is a moment is a moment and then the blinking cataracts |
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noah falck's work has appeared
or is forthcoming in Good Foot, Bat City Review , Redivider
, and Piplit. Other
portions of Life As A Crossword Puzzle can be found in Backwards
City Review, H_NGM_N and
Can We Have Our
Ball Back. He presently teaches language development in
an elementary school in Dayton ,Ohio .
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