Pogue Mahone
Officials say drugs may have played a part
Here is It's Easy and Trouble In The Ghetto from Midatlantic Vol. 3, No. 11 (1979).
Both sound a little familiar to me, but the titles are not listed in the database.
The third poem is Funny Man, which was collected in “the night torn mad with footsteps,” but I’m including it here because it was so severely butchered. I’m pretty numb to the editing by now, but this one is just so bad on so many levels…
Perhaps the worst (of many):
Original:
when you looked into their irises you could see the back walls of their heads where suspicious flicks of downcast mould were imbedded…
Edited:
when you looked hard into their eyes you could see just a shadow of doubt in the back of their brains…
Both sound a little familiar to me, but the titles are not listed in the database.
The third poem is Funny Man, which was collected in “the night torn mad with footsteps,” but I’m including it here because it was so severely butchered. I’m pretty numb to the editing by now, but this one is just so bad on so many levels…
Perhaps the worst (of many):
Original:
when you looked into their irises you could see the back walls of their heads where suspicious flicks of downcast mould were imbedded…
Edited:
when you looked hard into their eyes you could see just a shadow of doubt in the back of their brains…