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After
First Sex
by RP Verlaine
Even with knees
a little weak,
still
16 years old
give or take
a week
I seem to dance
my way
home
with feet
that barely touch
ground
while
strumming the air
guitar
I truly hadn't known
I could
play.
Rp Verlaine lives in New York City. He has an MFA in creative writing from
City College. He taught in the New York Public schools for many years.
His first volume of
poetry, Damaged by Dames &
Drinking, was published in 2017 and another, Femme
Fatales, Movie Starlets &
Rockers, in 2018. A set of
three e-books titled Lies From the Autobiography
vol 1-3
were published from2018 to 2020. His newest book, Imagined
Indecencies, was published in February of
2022.
Bernice Holtzman’s paintings and collages have appeared in shows at various
venues in Manhattan, including the
Back Fence in Greenwich Village, the Producer’s
Club, the Black Door Gallery on W. 26th St., and one other place she
can’t remember, but it was in a basement, and she was well received.
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