Bill Yarrow

Bill Yarrow's most recent book is ACCELERANT from Nixes Mate Books. He recommends Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

I am sitting in the shadow of fortuitous buildings,
the Bhagavad Gita on my mind, but I am part of
no such embroidered parable. So much so, adventure
seems hardly to exist.

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"Just One," "The Wall," and "You Can't Get There from Here"

You're in Brooklyn, a place of cruelty
in your youth, a place of probity
in your dotage. You sit on a bench
vacated by Jamaican nannies
under which portly pigeons nuzzle

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"Sin Embargo" and "The Rinsed Messiah"

Evil's another story, a story
whose orphan narrator is misery,
married to pain, son of suffering,
sibling of spleen. I have seen evil.
You have too, so you know there's
only one way to get rid of it.

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"The Tomb of Baudelaire" and "The Point"

If you're not any more interesting polluted
than you are pristine
then what's the point?

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