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Lonesome Town

“Andy stole my cherry
on a toothpick
& swallowed it whole,”
she sd. I was out
of the army a couple weeks,
madly in lust. “Now Andy’s gone,
no one can say where,
otherwise I wouldn’t be dancing
in this shithole.” She smelled
like a dogpound in August, but
she had a wad of bills
the size of a sandwich. Had a snake
tattooed around her ankle,
pierced nipple & that edgy, unreachable
disinterest I couldn’t
get enough of.

Two hundred for the night, two bones
from her dealer later, we jumped
into a Checker cab.
Back in my room,
The dope dropped my head
Like a tulip.
She cleaned me out.
“Ants,” she sd.
next day at the club,
“people are ants,”
lifted her feet & stomped
them down. Next morning, I started begging
my way back to my folk’s house
in Bumfuck, USA.

Don Winter about Don Winter

I went from being owner of Southeast Real Estate to poverty after a 1998 divorce. I’ve since taken up the poem, with acceptances from 5 AM, New York Quarterly, Bogg, Slipstream, Pearl, Chiron Review, Nerve Cowboy, Passages North, Southern Poetry Review, London Magazine, Sycamore Review, and close to 500 other journals in the US, Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, Switzerland, New Zealand, and Australia. My work has been nominated for twelve Pushcarts. I am co-founder and co-editor of the journal of literature and art Fight These Bastards.

Don Winter’s web page is here… and here are some other Don Winter publications. Just click on any of the links below.

slipstreampress | thebawdycloister | unlikelystories| laura hird | wordriot | broadsidepress

“Selling for ten bucks, this book is a steal. Some of the best poetry I’ve read in a while.” Todd Moore

“This is the real American poetry. Don Winter is one of the few poets I can honestly say I take joy in reading. This collection deserves a serious read.” Gary Goude

“Your chapbook was excellent. All poems right on target! Great work as always from a top poet.” Ed Galing

“I don’t know any other poet who could get away with duct tape covering staples for the binding and no heavy-duty cover. But after reading the content, I must say you pull it off—to my delight. It totally fits with the rawness and everyday, working man appeal of the poems. Bravo, Don.” Ellaraine Lockie

“I have read the heavies and you match up. It is a good thing to know and appreciate an American master during his time.” Troy Schoultz

NO WAY OUT BUT IN

To purchase NO WAY OUT BUT IN from New York Quarterly’s on-line store, go here please… Or, send $10 in check, money order, or well-concealed cash to:

Working Stiff Press (payable to Dan Sheridan) P.O. Box 1274, Niles, Michigan 49120

some related articles are listed below:

1. todd moore | saturday night desperate, don winter, and the black mitten of poetry
2. don winter | 3 new poems
3. mark weber | south for the winter
4. don winter | the hamtramck hotel
5. norbert blei | chi town
6. todd moore | what are the stakes in american poetry?
7. ken greenley | miriam halliday borkowski
8. doug holder | no one dies…
9. tony moffeit | american blues outlaw poetry anarchic dream
10. dave roskos | if the shoe fits stick it up your ass
11. john macker | january 20, 2009
12. todd moore | gimme danger
13. linda lerner | something is burning in brooklyn
14. todd moore | into the open madness: the poetry of kell robertson
15. todd moore | the treehouse reading
16. joe salerno | getting up for work III
17. norbert blei | notes from the underground
18. todd moore | rd armstrong | reads
19. todd moore | the great american poem
20. gary goude | sad lives
21. gary goude | jake’s dream
22. mark a. murphy | eternity’s flow & other poems
23. john yamrus | the failed poet
24. ed galing | calling bukowski
25. todd moore | writing with your wounds: a reading of the broken and the damned by jason hardung
26. todd moore | coyote death mask outlaw
27. john yamrus | after work
28. todd moore | the long way home and the blood on the floor
29. john yamrus | i don’t know what it was
30. todd moore | the last good reading from the outlaw dark
31. todd moore | damage, genius, courage