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Poetry
by Daniel Wilcox
Wasted
Wealth
His plum-stained hands,
He washes thoroughly at the sink
But still feels the hot flesh
Of the blood-red fruit that
Plummeted the ground
In their backyard, wasted wealth
He plopped into plastic bags full
And finally dumped about seven
Into the stained trash can
Where the crimson spheres will oven
In the hot afternoon sun
And dry to pruned excess;
His strange plum tree so like himself,
A redneck worker
Bringing forth abundance
Only to drop
His all onto the dark bar floor
On another three-night bender.
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The
Shell Zebra Mussels In
Neither white nor black,
Confusingly mixed the bivale zebra,
A tiny hitchhiker of water ways,
'Mussels' in on our lived-in boats
Encrusting us in a hanger's attack,
Striped micro-wolves in shelled fleece,
Cultural mussels of nescient devilment,
Molochian mollusks, voracious,
Yet with a deceiving lustrous lining;
They invade our lake of life
Innocent-looking,
Dark elongated hard 'sells'
With no reservoir-ations, who
Attach them selves to us voyagers
And clog our inners with their
Smelly shell remains,
Foul our abodes
Obstruct and damage
Human communion;
Clean your inner 'bilge'
Of these muscling-in
Devourers, small-time
Inn wreckers.
*Recent News: The California Department of Fish and Game uses
24 mussel-sniffing dogs for the sole purpose of discovering zebra
mussels on boats. Boats longer than 24 feet will be quarantined
for 14 days.
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Daniel Wilcox earned his degree
in Creative Writing from Cal State University, Long Beach. He
is a former activist, teacher, and wanderer--from Montana to
the Middle East, leaving a vapor trail of poetic debris in Tipton
Poetry Journal, Crossing Rivers Into Twilight, Lunarosity, The
Cherry Blossom Review, The Recusant, Oak Bend Review, etc. Poems
will soon be published in Moria and Word Riot. A short story
based on his time in the Middle East was published in The Danforth
Review. Currently, Daniel is finishing a novel and a poetry collection.
He lives on the central coast of California with his mysterious
wife and youngest son. Website: http://seaquaker.com/poetry
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