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| Issue 2: | March 2020 |
| Poem: | 66 words |
By Robert Eugene Rubino
Nixon’s the One
I smoke the dope of horoscope got the same January 9th birthday as Richard Milhous Nixon an unshaven fact that’s five-o’clock shadowed my whole life —a life that’s not been without its own toxic Nixonic I-am-not-a-crook razor-resistant stubble: lies insecurities jealousies paranoias cover-ups list of enemies checkered speech & naked ambitions even its own problematic tricky dick & dire desire to be pardoned
Robert Eugene Rubino
Since retiring from daily journalism in 2013, Robert Eugene Rubino has published prose and poetry in several literary journals, including The Esthetic Apostle, Cathexis Northwest, Gravitas, and Haunted Waters Press, and in anthologies Poetic Bond IX (Willowdown Books, 2019) and Earth Hymn (KYSO Flash, 2019). He’s old enough to have voted for George McGovern and smart enough to solve the New York Times crossword puzzle on Mondays (other days not so much).
More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond
⚡ Hollow Be Thy Name, a poem in Issue 12 of KYSO Flash (Summer 2019)
⚡ Owl House, a poem at Haunted Waters Press
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