Room Service: Poems, Meditations, Outcries & Remarks

Title Page, Copyright, Dedication, Acknowledgments

Room Service This page intentionally left blank. Room Service Poems, Meditations, Outcries & Remarks R O n C a R l s O n R ed Hen PR ess | Pasadena, Ca Room Service Copyright © 2012 Ron Carlson all Rights Reserved no part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the prior written permission of both the publisher and the copyright owner. Book design by Mark e. Cull Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data Carlson, Ron. Room service : poems, meditations, outcries & remarks / Ron Carlson.—1st ed. p. cm. IsBn 978-1-59709-233-3 I. Title. Ps3553.a733R66 2012 818’.54—dc23 2011041857 The Los angeles County arts Commission, the national endowment for the arts, and the Los angeles department of Cultural affairs partially support Red Hen Press. First edition Published by Red Hen Press Pasadena, Ca www.redhen.org This book is for Michelle Latiolais and Christopher Merrill Acknowledgments Periodicals Camas, “say Hello to Copper Bob”; Chautauqua Journal, “Under Heaven at the Utah Cabin, July 3”; Esquire,“Pennies,” “Max Who Caught a Car,” “The Great Open Mouth anti-sadness”; Faultline, “My america notwithstanding,” “My america House Car store,” “My america Coffee”; Flash Fiction, “a Brown dog sleeps on a Rag Rug”; Fourteen Hills, “Poetry’s debt to Invention,” “Rain”; Hayden’s Ferry Review, “Time of day,” “How death is not a Thing”; The Hotchkiss Review, “What I did not teach you about poetry”; Hunger Mountain, “The Bull”; Ironhorse Review, “don and Hugh”; Juked, “The Chance”; L Magazine, “Homeschool Insider: the Fighting Pterodactyls”; The Los Angeles Times, “The Chapman Branch”; Mississippi Review, “Grief”; My Weekly Reader, “Max Who Caught a Car”; Ninth Letter, “My america sleep”; Ploughshares, “In the Old Firehouse”; Santa Monica Review, “after the animal Fair”; Washington Post Magazine, “Remarks to the Graduating Class”; Washington Square, “How to Win her Heart,” “syllabus”; Witness, “There were Two of Them in the Car”; The Yalobusha Review, “The Gunslinger ’s Lamentation”; Zocalo.com, “The Genius of Women’s Wear,” “Zebra.” anthologies The Manner of the Country, (Univ. of Texas Press), “Under Heaven at the Utah Cabin, July 3”; Fresh Flash; Short Short Stories about Youth (Persea Books),“Homeschool Insider: the Fighting Pterodactyls”; Mid American Review, Flash Fiction (WW norton), “The Great Open Mouth anti-sadness”; Unleashed: Poems by Writers’ Dogs (Crown), “Max Who Caught a Car.” ...