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Coverly, Harris
Crist, Kenneth James
Cumming, Scott
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Davis, Michael D.
Degani, Gay
De Neve, M. A.
Dillon, John J.
Dorman, Roy
Doyle, John
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Ebel, Pamela
Fillion, Tom
Fortier, M. L.
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Grech, Amy
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Grey, John
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Hohmann, Kurt
Holtzman, Bernice
Jabaut, Mark
Jermin, Wayne
Jeschonek, Robert
Johns. Roger
Kanner, Mike
Kennedy, Cecilia
Keshigian, Michael
Kitcher, William
Kompany, James
Koperwas, Tom
Larsen, Ted R.
Le Due, Richard
Leotta, Joan
Lubaczewski, Paul
Lucas, Gregory E.
Luer, Ken
Lyon, Hillary
Mannone, John C.
Martinez, Richard
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McQuiston, Rick
Middleton, Bradford
Mladinic, Peter
Mobili, Juan
Mullins, Ian
Nielsen, Ayaz Daryl
Nielsen, Judith
Onken, Bernard
Owen, Deidre J.
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Parker, Becky
Pettus, Robert
Prusky, Steve
Reddick, Niles M.
Robson, Merrilee
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Rose, Brad
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Schauber, Karen
Schmitt, Di
Short, John
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Smith, Elena E.
Snethen, Daniel G.
Steven, Michael
Stoler, Cathi
Stoll, Don
Surkiewicz, Joe
Swartz, Justin
Taylor, J. M.
Temples. Phillip
Traverso Jr., Dionisio "Don"
Turner, Lamont A.
Tustin, John
Tyrer, DJ
Verlaine, Rp
Viola, Saira
Waldman, Dr. Mel
Weibezahl, Robert
Weil, Lester L.
White, Robb
Wilhide, Zachary
Williams, K. A.
Woods, Jonathan
Young, Mark
Zelvin, Elizabeth
Zimmerman, Thomas

Now I’m 64

 

        by Di Schmitt

 

 

Thanks, Fab Four.

Scrimp and save?

For what?

Nobody stuck around

‘Cept that hot, Spanish screamer

For a bit.

Need me? Feed me?

Frying up pork chops

At 3 A.M.

Between needy bitches.

MIA Friday night

Through Sunday morning,

Then all day Sunday

For football

In his lucky shirt.

Tiniest diamond in a ring

Stuck on this tiny finger,

So I can’t hock it.

They mistook him for a pedophile

That day.

That greasy fuck

Impaled on a white picket fence.

No weeds in this garden.

Only a body

Buried so deep,

I bet they found it in China.

 

 

 

My Most Favorite Things

 

by Di Schmitt

 

 

Thunderstorms.

Peanut butter.

The way toddlers stare you down

On the bus,

Like you’re some kind of freak.

Anything chargrilled

(within reason).

How the Great White swallowed that bridegroom whole,

And the bride screamed, and screamed.

The buttercream icing on their cake.

Films where the dog doesn’t die.

Peanut butter.

Films where the psycho breaks loose

And grabs the wheel of the van,

Slaughtering the nurses inside.

The smell of noir city streets,

Black, and slick, after rain.

Rainbow-colored chalk on blackboard menus.

Rainbows.

Blood-spatter patterns that seem almost ingenious.

(Did I say peanut butter?)



Di Schmitt hails from the Ironbound section of Newark, NJ, once voted the “unfriendliest city on the planet.” Di sees herself as a female Bob Mitchum.

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