Issue Twelve - March 2008

Flat Poem

By John Sangster

This the
Flat-ass truth.  Cruisin’ down
Flatbush when Boom!
Flat tire.  Gets out, hears music---third-floor
Flat.  Climbs stairs.  These cats
Flat-out jammin’.  Smoky in there.
Flatulence, too, but they groovin’ on 
Flat Foot Floogie With a Floy Floy.  Bebop with the
Flatted Fifth.  That the
Flat-ass truth.

Flat Poem was previously published in Urban Spaghetti Literary Arts Journal in 1999.

©2008 John Sangster

John Sangster lives on Lopez Island. His work has appeared in several issues of SHARK REEF. His chapbook, Island Year, was published by Pudding House Publications in 2008. While working on a memoir about a one-year trip he and his wife took across North America, a number car poems began to appear. Those combined with earlier car poems might one day become a chapbook.

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