Matthew Borczon

Matthew Borczon is a poet and retired Navy sailor who has written 17 books of poetry so far. His latest, PTSD a living Will, is available through Rust Belt Press. When not writing Matt is a nurse at a plasma donation center.

"I fought," "I save stories," and "The end of times"

I fought
for love
for money
I fought
the power
I fought
myself

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"Sargent K" and "Simulated training"

It was
a simulated
training exercise
set up
just like
a hospital
in Afghanistan

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no friendly ghosts

you can't
make friends
with ghosts
not with
dead soldiers
or with
old boyfriends

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more of me than me

as I
sit in
this chair
that now
holds more
of me
than I do

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Recent Articles:

A Memorandum on Mortality by Chris Cooper

Wents, hads, givens an OPS to sirens (Open Poem Search) by Darryl / Dadou / Baron Wawa

Bloodstained Cigarette by Carrie Lynn Hawthorne

"Brain cleaning" and "All knickety-knack yakking" by Linda K. Miller

Unlikely Saints, October 2022 with Christine Kwon, Sean F. Munro, Jessica Kinnison, and Hank Lazer

"Conscientious Objector," "Empathy and Skepticism," and "Smolder" by Mukund Gnanadesikan

"An Erasure of Leigh Chadwick's Poem 'Utah Is a Documentary'" and "An Erasure of Leigh Chadwick's Poem 'The Last Poet Writes the Last Poem Before the World Ends'" by Leigh Chadwick

Stalked by Gary Beck

At the Doll Wing of the State Psychiatric Hospital by Kim Peter Kovac

"What Answer Will You Furnish, Poet?," "The Hunger," and "The Darkness" by Sujata Sahani, translated by Pitambar Naik

The Angel in the Wall by Mark Russo

Three American Geegaws by Clay Thistleton

"Trip microscope Materiality," "First Unendurable Papercut of the Season," and "Adage Abusing, [At Least] a Wounded Nerve" by Joshua Martin

Meltdown by Ethan Goffman

Solution by LC Gutierrez

"100 Ways to Splice, Dice and Slice (Spend) One Hundred Classroom (Personal) Dollars" and "when grammar is nothing more than rules of destruction" by Jen Schneider

"A City Shall Rise" and "Reaching for the Moon" by Joe Bisicchia

"Random Violence" and "The Dead Who Go to Market" by Dennis Formento

Crazy by Kurt Newton

"Freedom Defined," "Frank Rizzo Burns in Hell, Oct 30, 2020," and "Blunt-Force Commute" by C.L. Liedekev

Salt Water by Linda McMullen

Celebrating "Handling Filth: Simple Sabotage Field Manual" with Jared Schickling, Dylan Krieger, Té V. Smith, and Erik Bosse

Easter by Brian Stephen Ellis

'householes,' 'marine's young daughter,' and 'no one teaches girls' by Natalie Parker-Lawrence

"The Wonder Years," "Guidance Counselor," and "Confirmation Day" by Kyle Hemmings

sapphic pindaric # 25862 by David E. Matthews

"The Roar from Down the Road," "Waters," and "Shuffling a Deck of Melted Cards" by James Grabill

"Missing One Beat," "Peccadillos," and "A Disappearance" by Laura Winter

"Ain't No Sorry," "Where Camo Is a Primary Color," and "Poverty Mongers" by Mark Spitzer

Becoming criminal by Roy Duffield

Mylar Art, October 2022 by Mollie Thonneson

"Ongoing and Unresolved," "Thee People of thee Peopling Planet," and "Stone" by Rodger LeGrand

"One day you're dead and if you've been bad then," "One day I'll die and go home to Heaven," and "Nobody lives forever, a body" by Gale Acuff

Your Teaching Assistant, Rumpelstiltskin by Kirkley Silverman-Mehndiratta

Trial and Error by Ed Ahern

"First World Problems," "Ninety-Nine Times Out of a Hundred," and "Dead Relatives" by Howie Good

"We've Been Betrayed," "Reels," and "That's The Way (I Like It)" by Kris Bluth

"Better Angels," "By Now, Of Course" and "Before an Empire Falls" by Wendy Taylor Carlisle

"Beleaguered by the Random," "Righteous Anger," and "Cohabitation" by Ken Poyner

On Irina Mashinski's "The Naked World: A Tale with Verse" by Mary Jane White

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