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    Verse Noir: Expanded Edition
    Verse Noir: Expanded Edition
    Verse Noir: Expanded Edition
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    Verse Noir: Expanded Edition

    By David Rachels

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    If a mutant offspring of Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith had written fortune cookies, the result would be Verse Noir. The original edition, published in 2010, was a minimalist masterpiece. Its 77 brief poems—the shortest was only three words long—delivered concentrated doses of sex, violence, and existential angst. This expanded edition doubles the size of the original collection, adding 76 new poems to the mix. If you are a fan of noir but not of poetry, Verse Noir will make you a fan of noir poetry. This is noir in its purest, distilled form.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAutomat.Press
    Release dateAug 29, 2017
    ISBN9780999320907
    Verse Noir: Expanded Edition

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      Book preview

      Verse Noir - David Rachels

      Monkeys

      If you put

      One million monkeys

      In a room with

      One million typewriters

      Sooner than you think

      The monkeys will use

      Those typewriters to

      Kill each other.

      Setting

      The kidney-stoned sky

      Squeezed out the rain

      One drop at a time

      While the wind howled

      The pain of the clouds.

      Vocabulary

      There are words

      I have seen

      But know not

      What they mean:

      Pagoda.

      Itinerary.

      Nuance.

      Philatelist.

      Penultimate.

      Adirondack.

      Mercy.

      Dad

      For my twelfth birthday

      My old man gave me

      A pair of brass knuckles

      That were not really brass

      And two issues of Playboy

      Missing their centerfolds.

      He called it a scholarship.

      Hate

      If I do not

      Hate you

      Then you are

      Still alive.

      Promise

      A promise is

      A down payment on

      A lie.

      Experience

      People who think

      That yelling and screaming

      Are the same thing

      Have never screamed.

      Ambition

      At first

      My ambition

      Was to live

      To see thirty.

      Later

      My ambition

      Was

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