Lois Marie Harrod
Antidote for an Old Goat
There, tighten the slack tie
for the old pauper in the black tank top.
He's not dreaming the taste of glue.
Yesterday he was king of France,
today an old biker courting a bloated waitress,
face burrowing in the corners of her wet brassiere.
Tomorrow she will ride behind him
on that sleek cycle if he can just remember
where he put the keys.
Bio
Lois Marie Harrod's 13th and 14th poetry collections, Fragments from the Biography of Nemesis (Cherry Grove Press) and the chapbook How Marlene Mae Longs for Truth (Dancing Girl Press) appeared in 2013. The Only Is won the 2012 Tennessee Chapbook Contest (Poems & Plays), and Brief Term, a collection of poems about teachers and teaching was published by Black Buzzard Press, 2011. Cosmogony won the 2010 Hazel Lipa Chapbook (Iowa State). She is widely published in literary journals and online ezines from American Poetry Review to Zone 3. She teaches Creative Writing at The College of New Jersey.