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  • Arrested Development
  • Gladys Justin Carr (bio)

you probably know that if you wound meI do not bleed and if you toss me asideI turn down the road less traveledwe’re all whistling in the darkpraying for miraclesthere was one yesterdayon the corner a tree sprouted limbsthat walked away they forgot to mention iton breaking news like it was just succotashor a mash-up of Cliffs Notes from Godspellwhy are you laughing it’s trueI did it to myself dragged my drugged outcorpse through the streets of TurinI was my own stigmata even touristsknow better than to try to walk on your ownmuddy waters hey aren’t you the guywho sang hoochie coochie man at mybar mitzvah could you please turn downthe sound please I know it’s a gasto see me falling off the edge of the worldbut must you make it an oratorioon comedy central drink ecstasy with meif you dare the devil’s in its detailscould you loosen your stop & frisk holdsir mr borderline policeman I’ve donenothing terminal I just want to wanderthe century hit it out of the parkone more time then I’ll go quietlydressed to kill [End Page 84]

Gladys Justin Carr

Gladys Justin Carr’s recent work has appeared in over one hundred magazines and journals in the U.S. and Canada. A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee and winner of a California State Poetry Society Award, she is the author of Augustine’s Brain--The Remix and co-author of Edge by Edge. Publications featuring her work include, among others, North Atlantic Review, Potomac Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Ninth Letter, Manhattan Magazine, Queen’s Quarterly, Rosebud Literary Magazine, Nimrod  International, Quiddity  International Literary Magazine & Public Radio, and The Best of Toadlily Press: New and Selected Poems. She is listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World, probably because she is an internationally renowned chocoholic. She lives in New York City and East Hampton, N.Y.

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