THE Anthologist
—for Lawrence Schimel
(aka David Laurents)
“THE apparition
of these faces
in the crowd—
petals on a wet,
black bough”
—Ezra Pound,
“In a Station of the Metro”
Actually, my dears—
i prefer poems
in anthologies…
to individual ones
in books
basically because—
poems in anthologies
are oeuvre-less…
having forgotten their
tacky authors
they’re like petals—
on a wet, black
bough in a busy
airport or dumpy
bus-station
they’re like—
nervous tapping
little toesy-wosey
footsies in the stall
of an airport bathroom
__________________
(Lawrence Schimel’s poetry and fiction
has appeared in over sixty anthologies,
including The Readers Digest Treasury
of Light Verse, Dyke Angels: Lesbian
Vampire Stories, Weird Tales from the
Minneapolis Airport Bathroom, and in
numerous periodicals, including: The
Poughkeepsie Tribune, The Hump
Tulips Gazette, The Saturday Evening
Douche, The Writer, etc., etc., etc.
Schimel has a busy Manhattan little
nom de plume as well, editing such
Badboy anthologies as: The Badboy
Book of Erotic Verse, The Badboy
Book of First Hand Disappointments,
The Badboy Book Of Homo Tales and
Tacky Tricks, etc., etc., etc.)
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
THE Anthologist
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