Spring 2005 - Apr May June
American Poet from New York
Emergency
by Alan Catlin
Source: The Schenectady Chainsaw Massacre, (2003), p. 96
I don't
know
exactly what
happened.
one minute
we were
having a
drink, smoking
cigarettes
laughing at
old stories
jokes
the next
he was
laid out
flat
eyes rolling
back inside
glass cylinders
seeing nothing
I was
going
to call
911
but I
couldn't re
member
the number
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Two Guys With Sunglasses
by Alan Catlin
Source: The Schenectady Chainsaw Masscre (2003), p.50
Hip was invented
to describe these
two whack jobs
in the making
so ultra cool
behind those
carbon copied
shades you'd
almost expect
a movie voice over
asking them to please
take a test to prove
whether they were
human or replicants
the way Rachel asked
Dekker in Blade Runner
though there is just
enough edge about them
to suggest another
movie they could
be associated with
as assassins for hire
in an American made
version of Diva set
in the lower East Side
rather than the streets
of Paris making all those
innocuous seeming femmes
you see there walking
sets of perfectly permed
poodles automatically
suspect.
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Alan Catlin is from New York. He works as a bartender and loves to write poetry and short stories.
He is married to Valerie and has two kids.
Alan released his two full-length poetrybooks "The Schenectady Chainsaw Massacre" and "Drunk and Disorderly" in 2003.
Alan released his first poetrybook "The Schenectady Chainsaw Massacre" in 2003.
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