shot glass
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"... brevity is the soul of wit ..."
- William Shakespeare

Bio


My work uses a spoken style of language to blend social criticism, philosophical reflection, explicit prose, and black comedy. In 2016 I received the John Newlove Poetry Award. My work has appeared in in Alt-Minds, Authorspress, Bywords, Duck Lake Journal, EVENT, Garfield Lake Review, Havik, Lean In, Lummox, Montana Mouthful, Night Picnic, The Poet's Haven, Raven Chronicles, Red Earth Review, Royal City Literary Arts Society, Willard & Maple, and various other national and international publications. My books - No Diplomacy, Shameless, A Pardonable Offence, Ashes, One Hundred Little Victories, On Writing, and Merica, Merica, on the Wall - are available at: www.AJLafleche.com.


Andrew Lafleche


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zen or somethinglike

don't want to sleep
don't want to be awake
don't want to drink
don't want to write
don't want to talk
don't want to listen to music, don't want to smoke
don't want nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
key got stuck
maybe I will drink
I can hear the fan oscillating
she's lying in bed, hasn't said much these days
not sure what that means, sure it means something
I can hear the rain, it's heavy; I can hear the faucet drip, too
drip drip
drip
I wonder how long it's been that way