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Blue Collar Broadcast Blue Collar Broadcast irregularly features new working class poetry and prose. If you would like to submit something for publication here, email it to tilt-a-whirl-broadcast@summersault.com Old broadcasts
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Patricia Ranzoni for the man at the Stockton spring stop back up excuse me hi stacks of gallon milk containers whetting his pickup yup awful good come twice a week may I interrupt for a drink don't oh don't lower your eyes please oh please don't defer sure got a cup no I can use my hands I know about this I know lugging water I know filling jugs I know making last I know sweaty t-shirts heavy workpants in 90 degrees I know you sir it's you I need to splash my face in soak my eyes cool my tongue wash down the chin-high front of me oh please don't oh please oh don't look less can't you see my dress is ripped in this trough I wear no shoes you the quench I'm here for
Patricia Ranzoni I know I am not supposed to be writing our women digging their greens, tres- passing in another class, but this ground is composed of my people and I am on my knees and this is a knife.
Patricia Ranzoni is a founder of the cross-cultural SpiritWords/Maine Poetries Collaborative. She has her own website with further poems and information. You may also email her. Poems are © Patricia Ranzoni, 1998 [an error occurred while processing the directive] |
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