Journal Entry With a Gun and a Beer on my Table (by Dan Provost)

Journal Entry With a Gun and a Beer on my Table

Shaved head…
Fish lurking through the streets of Worcester.
A metal plate passes for my heart—with the tears of a false profit.
Tired and free forming—going to smoke some weed and wait for the words then.

A swivel walk that was never supposed to exist.
A chain of trucks on Route 290.
Sadness, happiness
Formality-death.
Stranded in a city full of soot…apartment akin to a cheap London flat in the 1920’s.

Take the opportunity but never look forward…back?
A young swagger and a bounce-back physical make-up
Loneliness, peaceful…too conflicting to think,
Right here…
Right now…
Facing isolation with determination.
Staring down the barrel of “it.”
Fuck “it”…I’m gonna beat the devil tonight
Beer now…a glass of bravado.

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“Journal Entry With a Gun and a Beer on my Table” is (c) by Dan Provost, used with permission, from his new chapbook On the Wagon … On a  Binge, published by What’s in the Bag Press in Cleveland, Ohio.  Order it online directly from the press by clicking here or from the author by mailing six bucks (check or cash) to Dan Provost, 32 Kessler Farm Drive Apt. 493, Nashua, NH 03063.

Dan Provost has been published in numerous online and small poetry print magazines and is the author of eight books. His hobbies include lifting weights and listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd.  Dan lived in the bowels of Worcester, MA, aka the Paris of the 80s, but now resides in Bellingham.

“Journal Entry With a Gun and a Beer on my Table” originally appeared in the limited edition anthology Fuck Poetry, published by Crisis Chronicles Press in 2011.

Dan Provost reads at the Collingwood Arts Center in Toledo – 2/10/2009

 

Poetry written and performed by Dan Provost
(plus a bonus poem at the end by John Dorsey about Dan)

Filmed at the Collingwood Arts Center in Toledo, Ohio, on 10 February 2009
(photography & editing by John Burroughs, a.k.a. Jesus Crisis)

Check out poetry readings every Tuesday from 9 p.m. to midnight
at the Collingwood Arts Center, 2413 Collingwood Blvd. in Toledo.

About The Author:

Dan Provost‘s poetry has appeared throughout the small press.  He is the author of seven chapbooks, a member of the poetry group The Beards and lives in Worcester, Massachusetts.  Recommended works featuring Provost’s poetry include Fallen Empathy (Covert Press) and The Beards (an anthology by Tainted Coffee Press).

Dan Provost reads at Snoetry: A Winter Wordfest – 1/16/2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ar9MNbexBE

Poetry written and performed by Dan Provost

Filmed during Snoetry: A Winter Wordfest — a Lix and Kix production
at the Last Wordsmith Book Shoppe in North East, Pennsylvania on 16 January 2010
(photography & editing by John Burroughs, a.k.a. Jesus Crisis)

About The Author:

Dan Provost‘s poetry has appeared throughout the small press.  He is the author of seven chapbooks, a member of the poetry group The Beards and lives in Worcester, Massachusetts.  Recommended works featuring Provost’s poetry include Fallen Empathy (Covert Press) and The Beards (an anthology by Tainted Coffee Press).