John Berbrich
Suicide Song #1
Bridge
After heavy rain
The water rushes madly
To the sea
Suicide Song #2
The Knife glows softly
In the closed
Kitchen drawer
Not tonight
Bio
John Berbrich was born and raised on Long Island, New York. He has worked in factories, a car wash, food service, and as a construction grunt-has played in several experimental rock bands, and is currently employed as an obscure paperwork drudge in a dreary government office building. He and his wife Nancy are co-rulers of BoneWorld Publishing, under the aegis of which are published the literary quarterly Barbaric Yawp and the many chapbooks of MuscleHead Press. He also writes monthly music & literary review columns for Fourth Coast Entertainment Magazine and is a founding member of SLAP (St. Lawrence Area Poets). John and Nancy and a varying amount of their six kids live among the northwestern foothills of the Adirondack Mountains in Russell, New York.