VINYL POETRY

Volume 2, November 2010

BIRDIE
Tony MancusView Contributor’s Note

Going Up Into

another chance at the lotto. My niece and a portable radio turn on the same way. This everywhere. This just-happy-enough. We’ve liked before. This melody strong and paused. We’ve trashed cars or boats, pulled up weeds and strawberries, came to with our education batteries all full. The city got swept clean by men in blue and sentences beginning with ‘the.’ Here is a dollar for everyone.