FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: CITY LIVING Send up to three poems on the subject of or just using either the words city and/or living totaling up to 150 lines in length in the body of an email message or attached in a Word file to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59 PM PST on February 16th. No PDF's please. Color artwork is also desired. Please send in JPG form. No late submissions accepted. Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: City Living will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, February 17th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Thursday, February 15, 2024

Jeffry Jensen


ALL A BIG BARE-KNUCKLE SNOOZE


no shirt, no shorts, no socks, no shoes

the city on a hill has blown a cultural fuse

vengeful rumors bubble up some horrific clues

while everyone who is anyone lines up in twos

for what may be a brainless biblical cruise

as streets buckle under the weight of mystical taboos

is this all an apocalyptic ruse?

for the remaining Christians, Muslims, and Jews

do the living or dead have more to lose?

LA keeps spreading out in order to confuse

all two-legged, four-legged, and no legged views

and it may all come down to one big bare-knuckle snooze

that is one part ramshackle salvation and one part satirical stew


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