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By LB Sedlacek
ISBN:
Printed by: Assume Nothing Press
Printed in:
Date: 2004
Price: 5$
How to order the chapbook:
a. Email: [email protected]
b. Order on line at: www.thepoetrymarket.com
This chapbook contains 27 poem collection that deals with the harsh realities of city life such as divorce, crimes, suicide, murder, corporate environment, etc. Sedlacek is a poet who is not afraid to write poems about the burning social issues of our time.... a social commentary who writes social views in the form of poetry.
A Fly's Journey To the Electric Chair
by LB Sedlacek
Chapbook: Hemlock Suicides..(2004)
p. 27
Rough plastic
sealing
rectangular spaces
shielding
fluorescent bulbs
all white hot, bright
preparing
to send the fly
now buzzing about
to the electric chair
for the crimes of wrong place, wrong time
like a traveler
passing
through
on vacation
just in time
to decide between revolt, safety
all the while
having
to ignore or believe
proclaimed leaders holding out pens with thick
papers
luring
willing victims into
flashbulb fantasies, paycheck security.
Still,
all the fly has to do to seek refuge
is to flee into the rafters
seeking
escape through cracks in brick walls.
But the fly is too comfortable to change
even though
next to the lights it's white hot, bright
until the bulbs burn out, the structure falters
which never leaves
enough of a skeleton for a proper burial.
By LB Sedlacek
ISBN: 0738833819
Printed by: XLibris
Printed in:
Date: 2000
Price: 21$
No. of pages: 180 pp.
How to order the novella:
a. Email: [email protected]
b. Order on line at: www.thepoetrymarket.com
c. Order on line at: Amazon.com
d. Order at Muses Review Store.
*Read poems of LB Sedlacek in Muses Review in Fall 2004 and Winter 2005 edition.
*Read poem reviews about poems of Sedlacek in Muses Review. Click "Poem Reviews".
LB Sedlacek is from North Carolina. He works in Marketing and Sales. He finished Masters in Theater and Speech Communications. He is the editor of the newsletter of Poetry Market.
His poems appeared in various ezines such as Muses Review, Muse's Kiss, Blue Collar Review, The Paumanok Review, etc.
by LB Sedlacek
Source: Hemlock Suicides... (2004)
p5
It may happen in the distant future
when curiosity no longer kills
for getting too close
burning eyes, frying skin.
Swift, quick moves
and mathematical calculations
or chance
to break the fiery barrier
One day we may land
on the burning surface
and live for more than a second
discovering if the atmosphere is friendly or not
Probably, we will never know
But if you catch your cat swatting a sumbeam
watch him closely
'cause maybe he's been to the sun before.
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Poems copyrighted by LB Sedlacek.
You can buy Sedlacek's chapbook "Hemlock Suicide by Well-Dressed Men in Suits" through his email:
[email protected]