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In the Arms of Words: Poems for Tsunami Relief

New Benefit Anthology edited by Amy Ouzoonian

Your Pill

Amy Ouzoonian

Cover Art by Daniel Oates-Kuhn

Some poetry is 'far out' -- but not Amy Ouzoonian's.

Her poetry reaches far and out bringing back a logic

and a clarity that turns all we know surreal and all we

believe absurd.

--- Brett Axel

The book "Your Pill" reflects the American need for medicine or a tool kit to help repair or heal them from the chaos of war within this country and outside its borders. "Your Pill" is part of a healing process that I underwent when I was involved in caring for individuals with disabilities, when I was under the influence of psychotropic drugs, when I was raped and when I learned to express these experiences through my art and writing. My hope is that this book will force people to take another look at society around them and not accept its limitations and hurtful mundane structure. "Your Pill" is a guide and a smiling gesture that tells a story and invites its readers to find positive ways to express themselves and find a way to cope and heal.

Amy L. Ouzoonian

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Andromeda

Little Birds in a Plane Cross the Atlantic

Gin and Clonic

Still Love

Eve's Bad Day

About the Residents

Taking Your Advice

Of the Mississippi

unspent love

A Manual for Mass Instruction:

Concerning the Engine

Love's Myth

Crossroads Blues

The Farmer's Daughter

Hearing the Call 2:00 pm

Hitchhikers guide to dining out

Thrust, Leave

Say goodbye

Reconnect

The Way How

Write Of Way: A Manual

For Mass Instruction

Musician's Food

Delicates

Send Off

Patchwork Chamber

Similes Like Love

When My Sister Talked With God

Explaining the Claddagh Ring

An Open Letter to Amy Ouzoonian

Five Roses

Eastern Meditations Conflict with my

Emotional Mechanics

Preordained Suicide Note

A Velvet Strap-on Dildo

Personal

She Won't Say She's Unhappy

Truth

Political

Armageddon it was Not

To Mother, Your Daughter Understands

Scopes of the Blackening Warwick

On the Side of the Highway

Mother Heritage of Anti-Och

Recreating Barbie

Four Arms

Cobbler Americana

The Addition

A Few of the Places I've Masturbated

Messages

You Ask Me How I Know That

Vietnam Changed My Father

Puppet

Starving Artist

Over Easy

From the book:

A Manual for Mass Instruction:

Concerning the Engine

The engine would stop

if all the parts didn't work

so, some stepped outside

and tasted Virgil's

comprehensive nectar until

the sun threw her arms around

the concept of many-

Many declared our country God-less and

emptied their lungs of air

in a field

that was the pul-

monary vein to violence.

Their bulbous eyes absorbed

venus' prosthetic breasts:

naked and vulnerable

as their shuddering independence.

They crawled inside, blind-folded with

Blood, hope and stars

dreaming in blue.

Few could not stop feeding on

the moon.

Fed to water,

They smacked a horizon

called forgiveness.

The motor heart would stop if

children spoke back

to the chattering boxes

--dressed in glorified fixtures of light-

Spoke and knew

that it was themselves who

They hated, envied, loved it was

themselves who

paralyzed their fate,

that God existed as much

as their will.

The valves would rust and rot

The engine would drop if

Everyday a fist unraveled and

Cried out in its first voice

here, take this--

This is all I have.

Amy 'uzi' Ouzoonian recently received her BA in writing for the theater and journalism from SUNY New Paltz university. She has edited an anthology of poetry, Skyscrapers, Taxis and Tampons and has been the editor of 4 issues of A Gathering of the Tribes Magazine. She lives in New Paltz, New York where she hosts a poetry reading at the Mudd Puddle Cafe and is a board member of Arts for Peace and the performance director of the Space: a cultural co-op art organization and a member of the activist group Synthesis.

To Contact Amy - uzismurf2000@yahoo.com

Amy's website - www.locknloadpublishing.com

Your Pill is an 88 page hand-sewn paperback with flat spine - $15.00

ISBN: 0-941053-39-3

TO ORDER Your Pill ON-LINE

To order through mail send total price plus $1.25 Shipping and Handling ($1.75 in Canada; $3.25 other countries) for each address sent to. (New York State residents please add $1.20 sales tax.)

Send orders to:

FootHills Publishing

PO Box 68

Kanona, NY 14856

Thank you for your support!


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