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Commerce of the Undesirable

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Longueur: 76 pages32 minutes

Éditeur:: Don A. Hoyt
Sortie:: Feb 3, 2014
ISBN:: 9781310174209
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No less than in our continuing wars on poverty, poisonous substances, poly-ethnicisim, and faith, our “free enterprise” obsessed society too often experiences tragic collateral damage. Hoyt’s poems examine the damage, inflicting discomfort on the unwary reader. Hold on to your convictions if you can.

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Commerce of the Undesirable

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Longueur: 76 pages32 minutes

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Éditeur:: Don A. Hoyt
Sortie:: Feb 3, 2014
ISBN:: 9781310174209
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Don A. Hoyt

Don A. Hoyt was reared in New Orleans. A high school drop-out, he went on to earn two Masters degrees. His career in Public Administration began in 1980. He retired as the City Manager (Chief Administrative Officer) of the City of Anniston, Alabama, population 25,000. Over the years he has published numerous poems, short stories, and literary essays across the country.

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Free Enterprise

Its mission-like bell clangs,

rubbing everyone’s nose in free enterprise a million

times every night, glittering down the dark street

like some misshapen jewel drowning out the stars.

Inside the 7-11 the Pakistani had stood taller

than his patrons, slim as a winning Lotto ticket

and fuller of dreams, while luxury cars

came and went like hummingbirds at a flower,

the counters around him flat and tempting,

pumps all about dispensing forbidden nectars,

glass doors and video tapes guarding the goods well

from anyone but the silk clad career people

whisking in and out releasing wisps of cool air

into the hot night and trailing perfumes,

their smells blending with the stale hotdog buns.

But now one of them wets on her shoe and

one of them stares at the Pakistani’s blood

while crouching in the corner, his best hope to convince

those waving the guns that they are invisible,

are not identifiable, will remain forever unknown.

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The Men Coming Home

The men coming home are polite until

the sun goes down as the women do;

and the men demand penance

as if founding their own orders,

ordering as if their command of language

was sanctified by some new authority,

a new kerygma not yet gospelized.

The men coming home are generous to a fault,

flexing their abundance unto many generations;

and the men leave in a huff

for the flashing strobes and stroking flashes,

something passing among them that is theirs only,

curing all blindness in the bath house,

musicalized, not yet scored.

The men coming home sing ballads in their gaits,

knuckles cracking like hoof beats on the range;

and the men don’t take shit from nobody, cut throats

like movie bad guys grinning from ear to ear,

background music swelling like the women’s faces,

so everyone in the house knows the action

has just begun.

And the men coming home leave the street empty.

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Empty is the Word

The storm had pelted the ground outside

scattering everyone with its slick diatribes,

the courtyards deserted like disloyal lovers.

Empty as a new gun is the way to describe it,

not what they usually hope for, like a dry

well among brick and mortar scrub trees

or a long hallway toward stairs to the world outside

bounded on each side by odd and even numbers which

no longer count, long gone from forgotten angers,

urine stains in every corner, the smell of cum and cabbage

wafting through the shadows like clues to a mystery

of life better left unfathomed,

stairways gritty with other people’s dreams

tossed aside on the way down to

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