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Forced Readership is an Ill Companion
by Sage Sweetwater → (All Poetry by Sage Sweetwater)
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Sweetwater chiming in as the American lesbian poet trailblazer bought by Hollywood. Sweetwater in Hollywood film promotion Jett Durango. Poetry that sells!

Forced Readership is an Ill Companion

today...

junk politics
bindery generic
smudged cross urban grunge

self published
bound for flea market
gypsy reads 99 cent fortune

lucky strike pack
cigarette burn embossed
blurb illegible but still...

...forced readership
low intelligence friendly
profit for sheepherders


wild bill hickok...

they came
in wagons with
the dogs of seeing eyes
blind with old west glaucoma
the cure worse than the disease

wild bill's
take on it "those books
on god's prescription tend
to make a horse go lame saddlebag
doctor paid a visit came too far for such

nonsensical dispensing of antibiotic pass
the damn whiskey I'll read whatever label
I choose take my own medicine jack mccall came
in one night he took my eyesight while I was reading
eights and aces it took my life"

jett durango...

"I don't expect anyone to read my tombstone
forced readership is an ill companion"


Copyright Ms. Sage Sweetwater, Celebrity firebrand lesbian novelist  


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 Reviews of "Forced Readership is an Ill Companion"
Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on August 29, 2014
We read it when it's the only book around. Usually somewhere near the toilet.

Ron

Reviewed by Chip Bergeron
Reviewed on August 28, 2014
Reminds me of those "dime novels" kids used to read. You talk about it the first couple of stanzas then finish your poem with a sample/ Well done....

Chip B.


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