C L Bledsoe staple-bound. 34 pp. $12.00 
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CL Bledsoe is the author of Anthem and an editor for Ghoti Magazine http://www.ghotimag.com. He has published work in many journals, newspapers, and anthologies, including Barrow Street, The Arkansas Review, The Cimarron Review, The Potomac Review, Margie, and Nimrod, and been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes as well as winning the Blue Collar Review's Working People Poetry Prize. He currently lives with his wife near Baltimore. Weight the days add weight like so much lead dropped on our toes make noise in creaky _____ (leather/faux leather) shoes they _____ (want/need) free dom ination _____ (is/is not) love are you saying my _________________ loved me ___________________________________(insert source of oppression) asles kept me in bed so long I forgot _____ (how/why) to wake early witness the sun dreary eyed and honest before its morning cof fe (a) (e) tures include widescreen version theatrical trailer and inno cen (ts) (ce) in the sand don’t cut the feet like glass though waves don’t flatten like a train your _____ (pets/neighbors) to live free this lesson may save _____ (your/their) soul cakes and tea _____ (will/won't) keep life in me et death head on though preferably leaning slightly to the left ist rhetoric _____ (will not/definitely will) balance waste every moment you’re _____ (paid/given) to use savor your _____ (free/paid) time to take out the trash try _____ (not to/to) cry if the neighbors can see you said I could be anything I _____ (wanted/needed) I _____ (want/need) to be anything is _____ (better than/less than/equal to) nothing not quite so good as fud ge st because you can’t feel doesn’t mean I shouldn’t brea the best way to kill the _____ (poor/rich) are cities they say what you like lies are like lead |