Literary Orphans

Eating Televisions by Catfish McDaris

The worm drowns in sun yellow bottle

asleep on the shelf upon a Mayan pyramid

ruin, Jose’s eyes fill with death tears forever

Kahlil Gibran says: it’s all love baby doll
David Lerner: people hear my poetry and
weep, scream, disappear, start bleeding, eat
their television sets, beat each other to death

Jose swims in the Sea of Tranquility at the bottom

of the Mariana Trench having a mermaid harem,

floating up poems in bottles, never coming back.

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Catfish McDaris is a New Mexican living near Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He has four walls, a ceiling, heat, food, a woman, a daughter, and two cats. His 25 years of published material is in the Special Archives Collection at Marquette University. He’s listed in Wikipedia. His ancestors are from the Aniwaya Clan of the Cherokee Nation. Catfish McDaris won the Thelonius Monk Award in 2015.

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–Art by Barbara Florczyk

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