"Maybe an inability to get depressed by the inanity of anything you scribble down is a prerequisite for literary productivity and renown."

—Louis Menand

Excerpts from "NEW SHOES"

...

wheels are padded rolling
along with grandpa braking
with his thin back leaning

...

red flash and red flash
the shoes go stepping
and she goes loving
the red shoes singing
blood in her heart beating

- Lynna Howard, January, 2007, all rights reserved.

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Excerpts from "RIDING THE A TRAIN"

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"We're at West 207^th!"—
so far away we have to report in
by cell phone from distant lands.
"It looks nice and…civilized,
with window boxes, dog walkers—
we met a pit bull named Brad Pitt."

....

Gap-toothed globes, streetlights with
tongues of ivy in dusty heads, roots
in walkways gone astray. Rat nest
paths and carbon cave-dreams of firelight,
Lenape Indians and shadow battles.
Outcrop bones famished.

... "I like to fight boys, 'cause
they think they hard. Then we
fuck 'em up and they ain't hard."

...

"I dreamed…I had this dream…"

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"I dreamed…I had this dream…
I dreamed I hadda fight Stephanie,
and in this dream, I ain't gonna front,
she fucked me up."

...

Lynna Howard, copyright March, 2007

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