Lodestar Quarterly

Lodestar Quarterly
Figure reaching for a star Issue 7 • Fall 2003 • Poetry

From "7MARCHES"

CAConrad

carry another
sex on your sex
in your fellow
human streets
look and look
listen listen
this risen
spirit

trying hard
to belong
to no one

HAIL down
the want!

STOP making
maps for
those
wanderers!

step from
a giant
ass fully
clothed

another week
in the trash with
alarming speed
our sudden
death our
shittiest
surprise

"what's fair?" we
asked once

"never heard of it"
our answer arrived
no return address

CAConrad lives and writes in Philadelphia with The Philly Sound poets. His book Frank is forthcoming from The Jargon Society, while advancedELVIScourse is forthcoming from Buck Downs Books, and Deviant Propulsion is forthcoming from Soft Skull Press. He curates the project 9for9, edits Banjo: Poets Talking, and co-edits Frequency Audio Journal with Magdalena Zurawski. He can be reached at CAConrad13@aol.com.

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