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PARISIAN
DIVE
by
Bradford Middleton
In 2 & 1/2 weeks i’ll
Be drinking in a
Parisian dive bar
Dreaming of meeting
My Beatrice Dalle;
You know, her that
Was in Betty Blue
All those years ago.
Mad, bad, gap-toothed
Beauty who, maybe,
Will show me some
Much needed darkness
Outside the poetry
Section of a nearby
English bookshop i
Plan on visiting.
Bradford
Middleton lives in Brighton on the UK’s southeast coast. He was born in
London during the long hot summer of 1971 and growing up on a council estate
and attending the local school, he learnt two things; if he didn’t kick back
he’d never get anywhere in this life, merely becoming another cog in the wheel,
and has been kicking against those pricks his entire life. He began writing when
he arrived in Brighton in the
early years of the new century and began reading his poems to often stunned and
confused onlookers until one day Mad Swirl asked to publish one of his
poems. He’s had four chapbooks published since then and has hundreds of poems
dotted all over the internet. His work has featured in the Chiron
Review, Evening Street Review, New Reader Magazine, Paper
& Ink Lit Zine, Horror Sleaze Trash, and Razur Cuts,
amongst other places including, of course, Yellow Mama. Follow him
on Twitter @BradfordMiddle5.
Cindy Rosmus originally hails
from the Ironbound section of
Newark, NJ, once voted the “unfriendliest city on the planet.” She talks like
Anybodys from West Side Story and everybody from Saturday Night Fever. Her
noir/horror/bizarro stories have been published in the coolest places, such
as Shotgun Honey; Megazine; Dark Dossier; The
Rye Whiskey Review, Under the Boardwalk, and Rock and a
Hard Place. She is the editor/art director of Yellow Mama and
the art director of Black Petals. She’s published seven collections
of short stories. Cindy is a Gemini, a Christian, and an animal
rights advocate. She has recently been branching out into photo
illustration, under the guidance and mentoring of Ann Marie Rhiel.
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