THESE ARE NOT MY WORDS (I JUST WROTE THEM)
Donovan Hufnagle
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GENRE: Poetry
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Echoing Chuck Palahniuk’s statement. “Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known,” this collection explores identity. These poems drift down rivers of old, using histories private and public and visit people that I love and loathe. Through heroes and villains, music and cartoons, literature and comics, science and wonder, and shadow and light, each poem canals the various channels of self and invention. As in the poem, “Credentials,” “I am a collage of memories and unicorn stickers…[by] those that have witnessed and been witnessed.”
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Excerpt
[Big Tony] or Those Girls
Those girls up at Reliable's were funny as hell.
Ask them, darn near any one of them, where’d they work.
They didn't want anybody to know; they didn’t tell.
“Oh, I'm the switchboard operator,” they’d say. “I dwell
in the office.” Ashamed, see. Fibbed like clockwork.
Those girls up at Reliable's were funny as hell.
Say, they'd even ring their boyfriends the sound of that bell.
All those dumb dames putting on an act, shoveling that murk.
They didn't want anybody to know; they didn’t tell.
When the girls come out, Big Tony wisecracked about the swell
switchboard operators. They put their foot in it, so they just smirked.
Those girls up at Reliable's were funny as hell.
He hung around with his gang; they were in on it as well.
When the girls come out, they talked real loud like fireworks.
They didn't want anybody to know; they didn’t tell.
Tony laid it on thick! How he laid it on well!
He pretending he didn't know the girls was lurking.
Those girls up at Reliable's were funny as hell.
Why they didn't want anybody to know, they wouldn’t tell.
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Author
Donovan Hufnagle is a husband, a father of three, and a professor of English and Humanities. He moved from Southern California to Prescott, Arizona to Fort Worth, Texas. He has five poetry collections: These Are Not My Words (I Just Wrote Them), Raw Flesh Flash: The Incomplete, Unfinished Documenting Of, The Sunshine Special, Shoebox, and 30 Days of 19. Other recent writings have appeared in Tempered Runes Press, Solum Literary Press, Poetry Box, Beyond Words, Wingless Dreamer, Subprimal Poetry Art, Americana Popular Culture Magazine, Shufpoetry, Kitty Litter Press, Carbon Culture, Amarillo Bay, Borderlands, Tattoo Highway, The New York Quarterly, Rougarou, and others.
Website: http://www.donovanhufnagle.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/donovanhufnagle
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/dhufnaglepoetry
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Giveaway
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