Illustration: Jean-Claude Claeys

she said

“you stink,

i can’t stand

to even look at you.

every time you

lay hands on me

my skin crawls.

eat shit

and die

you bastard.”

as she left the room

she didn’t hear him say

“i hear THAT, darlin’,

i sure hear that.”

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from John Yamrus New and Selected Poems, Published by Lummox Press, POB 5301 San Pedro, CA 90733, www.lummowpress.com with an introduction by Todd Moore.

Authors Note:

Please bear in mind that this book is nothing more and nothing less than exactly what the title implies. It is NOT to be looked at as a “career overview.” It’s simply a collection of old and new poems that go back only as far as 1985 (my first poems were published in 1970). The vast majority of the poems in this volume were written and published mainly in the last decade. It’s just stuff that I wanted to see together all in one volume. To keep it fresh, there are 16 new poems scattered through the book. I hope you like it.

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Also by John Yamrus:

• Shoot The Moon
• Blue Collar
• One Step at a Time
• 78 RPM
• Keep The Change
• New And Used
• Start To Finish
• Someone Else’s Dreams (novel)
• Something
• Poems
• Those
• Coming Home
• American Night
• 15 Poems
• Heartsongs
• Lovely Youth (novel)
• I Love

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