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    Worse Than It Looks
    Worse Than It Looks
    Worse Than It Looks
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    Worse Than It Looks

    By Tom Janikowski

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    Midwestern fictionista Tom Janikowski has crafted a collection of poetry drawn from his experiences working with people who have made bad choices - addicts, convicts, users, and the like. Written over the span of two years on the streets of the Quad Cities of Illinois and Iowa, the poems include many that appeared at his collaborative poetry site, "the lost beat," where he writes with his cousin, the poet Denise Janikowski-Krewal.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateDec 5, 2013
    ISBN9781304686558
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      Worse Than It Looks - Tom Janikowski

      Worse Than It Looks

      worse than it looks

      poetry by

      Tom Janikowski

      worse than it looks

      First Edition

      Copyright ©2014  Tom Janikowski

      ISBN: 978-1-304-68389-2

      All rights reserved.  No portion of this book may be reproduced without permission of the author, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review.

      for the ones who made bad choices

      moth

      the usual fool plays a theremin

      and pretty-boy Pinny talks

      running talk

      fast talk

      talk talk

      righteously rotting away at the tailor of doom

      pretty hand holds a theremin

      exercised

      exorcized

      drop those demons

      hold the theremin close

      at the tailor of doom

      righteously rotting away at the tailor of doom

      in a cell-lit

      (as lit by cells with protoplasm, ectoplasm, cytoplasm)

      (plasmplasm),

      cell-lit cell

      dropping acid

      dropping slow

      dropping snow.

      and that Irish guy wrote about linnet's wings

      but pretty-boy Pinny holds

      and never drops

      in a cell-lit cell

      the usual fool plays a theremin

      and the drop comes

      faster than he likes it

      faster than he thought

      in a cell-lit cell

      pretty-boy Pinny

      walking fast in circles

      his talk does the same and all that

      running talk

      fast talk

      talk talk

      pretty-boy Pinny

      teeth all crumble-licious

      crumble-bloody

      stink of crumbled mouth

      running talk

      fast talk

      talk talk

      righteously rotting away at the tailor of doom

      epiphany

      best of rumpled nose

      talking down, down, until the rumpled nose

      loses sight

      (as if a nose could see)

      well, be my guest

      and rub some of that

      clan-sanitizer into your hands

      claw-fork

      claw-foot

      claw-hand hands

      reach out and claw your way -

      claw and cleanse and clear and clay

      but I want to say pray

      for you want to pray

      sanitized claw

      sanitizer holy

      sanitized soul sanitizer belly

      fold your hands and prey

      reach out and claw

      to claw and lose sight

      (as if a nose could see)

      claw the holy

      claw your way

      rumpled nose and run-on holy

      clan-sanitizer

      sanitized belly

      hard-scrabble sacred and praying like dust

      hold that

      claw-fork

      claw-foot

      claw-hand hands

      and pray like rust

      pray

      pray

      pray

      for the holy breaks in and the holy breaks out

      and all the world can see

      rumpled nose and claw-fork hands

      reached out and clawing dust-cake skies

      another market, 2012

      passed along and passed on fire

      crusty lamp-lit mango man

      with wild-eyed freak show stare

      saw you looking over habaneros

      tortillas

      pork chins

      and jicama

      miles and miles and

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