1995 wolfgang & i burn a joint in the woods behind his grandfather’s house like stoned vampires who haven’t slept in ages we laugh as his girlfriend falls into a dry creek bed while attempting to walk across a log in jelly shoes. Poem for Ida in 1986 gyrating shuttles like dandelions their screams blowing away in the wind mashed potatoes from an ice cream scoop ice cream from an ice cream scoop sweaty hands no metal detectors no bomb threats the captain of the football team stayed in the closet & died inside everyone was lonely the occasional fist fight solved everything & nothing that went unsaid. John Dorsey lived for several years in Toledo, Ohio. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including Teaching the Dead to Sing: The Outlaw's Prayer (Rose of Sharon Press, 2006), Sodomy is a City in New Jersey (American Mettle Books, 2010), Tombstone Factory, (Epic Rites Press, 2013), Appalachian Frankenstein (GTK Press, 2015...
Like the title says.