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hopes</div> <div> the reader will be both emotionally and intellectually drawn into and held by</div> <div> the form as well as substance of the poetry.  The poet would view the book</div> <div> as successful if it provokes the reader into thinking about our country's</div> <div> economic disparity, ubiquitous disinformation, and the collateral effects</div> <div> of the war in Iraq in a unconventional way.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> From the book:</div> <bR> <div> THE MIDAS PLAGUE</div> <bR> <div> As if the sun went rabid, flaming to brilliant, </div> <div> blinding gold everything it rayed, but the contagion</div> <div> was spread, the epidemiologists later said-</div> <div> before they too were solidified-from his fingers,</div> <div> locked into extending, a result of serial</div> <div> acquisitiveness (an occupational hazard)</div> <div> by the Chairman of the Hoard of Goldman, Morgan,</div> <div> & Pizzaro.  Forensic clinicians hypothesized</div> <div> that he touched a conference table which as he</div> <div> watched, appeared to transmute to solid gold.</div> <div> The assay proved he possessed or was possessed</div> <div> by a virus of 24 carat alchemy, since this was not</div> <div> fool's gold, at least metallurgically.  Although</div> <div> excited, he resisted ecstasy, applying objective</div> <div> analysis, embedded by the Wizards of Wharton,</div> <div> and concluded this was just his manifest destiny.</div> <bR> <div> He uncharacteristically, temporarily forgot his </div> <div> new source of profit generation when his wife</div> <div> and their twins stopped in for a visit.  And he hugged</div> <div> them hard.  But not as hard as they immediately</div> <div> became.  Without a troy ounce of despondency, </div> <div> he promptly sold all three, carrying his fingerprints, </div> <div> like Midas Marys, on the London Gold Exchange. </div> <div> He was thrilled by his astronomically high ROI,</div> <div> and besides, all that dazzle hurt his eyes. </div> <bR> <div> Martians sent their voyagers; their spaceships returned, </div> <div> laden like Spanish galleons.  Homo and Marto sapiens</div> <div> -all hard and dead and cold, and all solid gold. </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>             Doug Arnold's poetry has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in <I>The Literary Review, The Sulphur River Literary Review, Psychopoetica </I>(University of Hull-UK)<I>,</I> <I>Mad Poets Review, </I>and<I> The Pedestal Magazine.</I>  His first chapbook, <U>Playing in Most of the Keys</U>, was published by Finishing Line Press.  His essay, “Reading Kay Ryan's Poetry,” appeared in the <I>Schuylkill Valley Journal</I>, and another of his nonfiction pieces,</div> <div>             “The Mathematical Theory of Advertising,” published in the national journal of Business Professional Advertisers, is used in a postgraduate seminar at Grand Valley State University in Michigan.  He is also the host of a poetry reading program <I>Poets' Pause</I> on BCTV, a regional public access TV cable system covering Berks County, PA.</div> <div>             Doug was formerly president of an advertising agency he founded and has written columns for the <I>Philadelphia Business Journal</I> and <I>The Reading Eagle</I>.  He has also taught at Albright College in Reading, PA, as well as Reading Area Community College.  He lives with his wife in suburban Reading, and they have 3 children and 4 grandchildren.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> The Midas Plague</div> <div> is a 36 page hand-sewn chapbook - $8.00</div> <bR> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  ON-LINE<FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFBF0" FACE="Palatino Linotype" >   </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>                           <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" 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