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Alan Catlin American Poet from New York

Poem Review by Andrew Angus Title of Poem: Emergency Source: Schenectady Chainsaw Massacre (2003) Poet: Alan Catlin Rating: 4 laurels out of 5 laurels. Alan's poem "Emergency" is a free verse consisting of 4 stanzas. It has 28 lines. The poem is about two persons engaged in a session of  drinking liquor. "I don't know exactly what happened. one minute we were having a drink, smoking cigarettes laughing at old stories jokes" One of the two persons passed out- "the next he was laid out flat eyes rolling back inside glass cylinders seeing nothing" The other one remains awake but his mind already affected by alcohol that he cannot remember a simple phone number  -911. "I was going to call 911 but I couldn't re member the number" This poem could be funny but this poem could also contain  a serious truth.. Our brain could be so intoxicated that we cannot even remember a simple three numbered-phone number like 911. That is the problem of alcohol, it makes you feel good but alcohol  destroys your brain and its faculties like the  sense of remembering temporarily or permanently.

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About Alan Catlin 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.

Drunk and Disorderly by Alan Catlin

Schenectady Chainsaw Massacre by Alan Catlin

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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 ---------------------------------- 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. ------------------------------------------------- b. Visit the Bookstore of Manila Review. Manila Review Bookstore. ----------------------------

Poem Review by Andrew Angus Title of Poem: Two Guys with Sunglasses Source: Schenectady Chainsaw Massacre (2003) Poet: Alan Catlin Rating: 4  laurels out of 5 laurels. Available in Print edition of Manila Review.

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