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____(want/need)
C L Bledsoe
staple-bound. 34 pp.
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  Throughout, the collection is carried off with a wit and playful energy that makes you warm to it at once. This is evident too in the book's format; the interior pages resemble those of a puzzle book. The publisher’s information takes the place of the answers section at the back, presented in upside-down writing to keep you from peeking.

At the same time ______(want/need) is complex and elegant enough to distinguish itself as more than just word games. It is predominantly a poetry book, but one that uses the devices of those forms in order to draw its effect. ______(want/need) is worth checking out for its uniqueness alone.

Neon Magazine


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