Announcing the release of Simple Truths and Coughing Things from Little Poem Press. 

Co-authored by Patricia Gomes & Michael Paul Ladanyi

From the book:

~ The Lastest Style: In Answer to Your Letter ~

It was one of those nights
you promise yourself you won't drink
too much
then you drink
too much
because the mood is right
and the poetry's bad.
Fills the room, the gallery, the church,
the abandoned 4th floor of the now-defunct
and condemned pajama factory
  (wherever it is they choose to slam)
with toxic fumes
as one young thing
after another
seeks to impress
with their raving newness
and their inimatable style
stolen from those long dead who, of course,
did it better.  They holler, these young poets,
stomp their feet and sneer a lot.

Candice swears I left with her boyfriend;
I don't believe her, but I can't remember
how I got home, so perhaps I did.
If I did, he must have been a dreadful bore
else I'd remember him ... don't you think?
Either way, she's not speaking to me.
Candice is pink roses atop the over-frosted,
already too sweet cake.  Pretty to look at,
but a steady diet of the damned things
will kill you ... or drive you mad.
I suppose I'll miss her

after a time.

Belly shots are the thing now;
can you imagine us doing that?
baring our scars, or rolls, our
mother-bellies for all to see?  Exposed
for all the world to gawk and point at—
it is very like poetry ... don't you think?

~~~~~

To order Simple Truths and Coughing Things, click the link below ... bless you!