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David Michael Nixon
Venus in Retirement.
David Michael Nixon has published three poetry chapbooks and one full-length, limited edition, book of poetry before Venus In Retirement. He lives in Rochester, New York with his wife Barbara and two cats, Rocky and Lily. Unlike Venus, David cannot afford to retire, so he continues to do occasional housecleaning and yardwork jobs, and to cater to his poetry addiction.
Contents
Venus In Retirement
The Dog, Walking
Ex-Checkers Player
We Who Hear the Fly Buzz
The Trouble
The Trouble With My Heart
The Horror Collectors
Joe and a Cow near Minneapolis
Hunting Season
commuters get off
The Housecleaner
Leaping Instructions
Lost In Blue Babbling Air
One Use For George W. Bush
Your Pass
Uncle Louie and the Sun
Sure
Becoming The Cleveland Bard
The Birth Of Wonder
See Puff Drive The Dragon
From the book:
Venus In Retirement
Venus had tired of endless loving
and so retired to Carolina,
where she spent her passion as a flytrap,
flies being so much sweeter than men.
One Use For George W. Bush
All alone,
even with the cat
on my lap,
I lapse into
self-pity,
the usual style
for morbid poets,
until I remember
the president
trying to speak,
and after the anger
dies,
I begin
to laugh.
Venus in Retirement
is a 28 page hand-sewn chapbook - $7.00
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