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"listen"
by Steve Richmond

listen we sacrificed the fame
stick to poetry
make a move into prose
and somehow we've lost
that certain touch

that shoe in my face
it's the novelist's fame
that short story writer
is only a short
story writer

listen we stick to poetry
we didn't want all that
false publicity
all that crap to build a
legend

listen we had a few hobbies
we had a t.v.
we had a record player
we had
a dozen healthy plants

"listen"
by Steve Richmond
(1976, Red Work, Black Widow)

MR VICED HONEST

MR VICED HONEST

MR VICED HONEST

Superb! he wrote. He fed birds wild seed. When his washer broke, he filled it with dirt and planted a fern.

He bet on boxing. Hagler over Hearns. Hagler won in the third. Marvelous! he wrote.

He yearned for two paid weeks in Europe.

But why go anywhere?

And he didn't.

His personal credo? Have no living heroes.

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from "MR VICED HONEST / STEVE RICHMOND" EP, released September 9, 2009

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Mike Daily Oregon

Mike Daily is an author, journalist, zinemaker, and co-founder of the Plywood Hoods Freestyle BMX Trick Team. Daily's new novel, Moon Babes of Bicycle City (4/3/20, "Second Printing Forever") is available now from Amazon.