Joseph M. Gant

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For Naught

morality is plastic-
pressed and molded,
not like cotton, earth

nor silk. the spider weaves
nature from between her legs;

tenuous as the fiber spun
from fields into the shrouds
all heros and all villains

wear alike beneath the dirt.
forgotten are the titles and deeds.

Joseph M. Gant is a scientific glassblower by trade but a writer by passion. His work has appeared widely in the independent, academic, and commercial press. Joseph lives in the Philadelphia area where he edits poetry for a Sex And Murder Magazine and writes reviews for Outsider Writers Collective. His first full-length collection of poetry, Zero Division, is forthcoming with Rebel Satori Press.