literary aflictionados

For the one or two people who read the poetry section (hi, mom!), I've added a few more. If you can spot the new ones, you win a sense of smug self-satisfaction.

By the way, if anybody feels like stealing one of my poems and submitting it to a publisher of some sort, go right ahead. I think you'll find that these days the world is giving poetry a finger wave and a sardonic "whoo hoo".

My real advice to all you clepto-files out there is that if you're going to steal, do it right. Turn a poem into a pop song, add a pounding beat, and gyrate your way to stardom.

And in closing, my apologies to the g-raters out there for the lone quasi-expletive in one of them. It just didn't seem to work without it. You can lambaste me at jlbarkey@hotmail.com if you want, but the truth is I know you're now going to actually read the poems just to find it (evil laugh).