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    Winnipeg

    By Mel C. Thompson

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    An American poet and tourist takes a nine-day trip to Winnipeg, Manitoba. Fueled by coffee, beer and sugar-laden desserts, he obsessively crisscrosses this mini-mega-city by bus; and, as he goes to every district he can cover in the time allotted, he takes copious photographs of everything he sees, but not for the purpose of publishing photographs, but rather poems. After he arrives home, he sorts through thousands of photographs and winnows the collection down to a little over a hundred pictures. He goes over these pictures and writes poems about his experience, based on his foggy memory and the manic ideas triggered by the photographs themselves. Given his preexisting penchant for philosophy, theology and economic issues, he allows his poems to either coincide with, or go greatly afield from the original subject matter. The photographs themselves will remain a mystery in this Smashwords manuscript.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMel C. Thompson
    Release dateSep 17, 2018
    ISBN9780463615959
    Winnipeg
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    Mel C. Thompson

    Mel C. Thompson is a retired wage slave who survived by working through temp agencies and guard agencies. Unable to survive in the real world of full-time, permanent work, he migrated from building to building, going wherever his agencies sent him, doing any type of work he could feign competency in and staying as long as those fragile arrangements could last. He somehow managed to get a B.A in Philosophy from Cal-State Fullerton in spite of his learning disorders and health problems. Unable to sustain family life due to depression, anxiety, sleep disorders, lack of transportation and lack of income, he lives alone in low-income housing and wanders around California on buses and trains. He began writing at the age of 14 and continues till the current day. (He turns 64 in June of 2023). In his early years he wrote pathetic love poetry until, in his thirties, he was engulfed by cynicism and fell in with a group of largely antisocial poets who wrote about the underground life of drugs, sex, alcohol, poverty, prostitution, heresy, isolation and alienation. In his fortes he turned to prose and began to write religious fiction with an emphasis on the comedic aspect of theology and philosophy. He now writes short novels focusing on the attempt to find meaning in a economic world beset with money laundering, unethical marketing, contraband smuggling, human trafficking, patent trolling, corrupt contracting and every manner of spiritual and psychological desperation and degradation. When he is not writing, he wanders from hospital to medical clinic to surgical room attempting to sustain what little health he has left after a lifetime of complications resulting from birth defects and genetic problems. When he is able, he engages in such hobbies as reading, walking, yoga and meditation; and whenever there is any money left over from his healthcare-related quests, he goes to wine tastings and searches for foodie-related bargains. Before the pandemic, he spent many years gaming various travel-points systems and wrangled many free trips to Europe. He is divorced and has no children, no pets, no real estate, no stocks nor any other assets beyond the $550 in his savings account. His career peaked in the early 2000s when he did comedy gags for a radio station and had about 10,000 listeners per week. However, currently, he may have as few as five active readers on any given day. He no longer has the stamina to promote his work and only finds new readers through ran...

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      Winnipeg - Mel C. Thompson

      Winnipeg

      Mel C. Thompson

      Copyright © 2018

      Mel C. Thompson Publishing

      3559 Mount Diablo Boulevard, #112

      Lafayette, CA 94549

      For more information about Mel C. Thompson’s work or to learn more about how you can support his ongoing literary projects, including his work with the other authors published by Mel C. Thompson publishing on Amazon through their CreateSpace subsidiary, please contact the email below or write the address listed above:

      melcthompson@yahoo.com

      Cyborg Productions, Blue Beetle Press, Citi-Voice Magazine, Zero Capital Press, The Lost Continent Review, and Marble Lobby Press are all imprints of Mel C. Thompson Publishing Company.

      Winnipeg

      1.

      After years of studying calculus

      And scientific testing methodology,

      I am now sure that lightning is caused

      By thunderbirds and eagle gods —

      physics being a mere afterthought.

      2.

      I tried to be as objective as possible,

      Attempted not to yield to sentiment

      And look at the truth coldly and soberly.

      Even so, I came to the alarming realization

      That the universe revolves around Winnipeg.

      3.

      There is nothing at the very top of the world

      Except a series of lighting fixtures mistaken

      For the sun, the sun itself a scientific fiction.

      Human rights are a political fiction beaming

      Their lights onto a world

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