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Poetry || SubmissionsNick ZegaracD'emoiselleShe reclines alone,spread in one overlooked corner of the red velvet tea room. Tonight, and every rancid moment yet to come, thumbing yellowed Byron, bought for her in Berlin. Corrupt edges pressed under crackled nail varnish. Wired bodice - half laced. Crookedly distending nylon checkers athwart her pointed ankles. She sits, intolerant and tart, head of rags spun taut in Plath, gassing bloodshot at the round bottom of Hemmingway. Thickening halos, pungent exiles of deep smoke and perfume dart her bee-stung quivering lips, as tinny Piaf off the Victrola reminds. Patron's delight, cackle passing ignorance, marry folly upon the smug slap bass custody of tempo, her agony, memoirs, pounding, …the doughboy. She loses herself. In his slovenly tongue moistened with Vichy promises, a brimstone victory remiss, that bloody, frost-bitten hole where he lays. Rutted. Misplaced. Wrapped in gaudy butcher's paper red, white and blue, to sour the terrain of his youth and haunt her ancestral afterglow in the snuff of their lovely, miserable lives. Nick Zegarac was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and is active on the literary scene - as part of the editorial board for Black Moss Press, the author of several screenplays, a columnist for RETORT on line e-zine and a DVD reviewer for Mediascreen. His work as a poet is featured on several internet based literary sites, including Ariga Today's Situation
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