The Cost of Self-Discovery

What I've hidden from myself
is always a surprise
when I find it

sometimes it goes down easy
sometimes the neighbors
call the cops.





White Fish Girl

The river stinks
the sky's a bloody thumb

white fish girl I'm easy
pigeons paint the rocks

white fish girl I've waited
let me win.





Glory Days

I like to jack-off
in the shower

fantasizing girls
I knew in college

those I didn't fuck then
I fuck now.

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    Bart Solarczyk writes some of the most poignant and funny poems around. Bart says "I play guitar, live in Pittsburgh with one wife, three cats, one dog. Been around small press since the early 80s, etc. I've slept over at Ron Androla's house." He has a new chapbook out, Walt Whitman's Watching, available from Pudding House Publications at www.puddinghouse.com.

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