And Something Called Spring
It is a two rose midnight
on the third terminal sky.
She attaches her heart
with a series of tube plug clips.
then sits back for a short liquid oxygen.
It should take ten minutes –
less if the oxygen is 110% pure.
While she waits
she shortscans Gone With The Wind.
It is her first reading
and the ending coincides
with the initial beats of her heart.
She has never been in love before
at least in a romantic way.
She paid a great sum
for this antique of a heart.
Ever since the advent of vessel fusion
most people have them removed at birth.
Where romance is concerned,
they were too damn unpredictable.
She touches the roses in the vase.
Just how they fit in is a mystery to her.
Zoning
The building is an outlaw :
a radio evangelist
bilking across Dial-A-Prayer.
He walks in :
he who saves photographs
of strangers
and files them
in the transparent windows
of his empty wallet.
They hold a lien against
each other.
An electric arc
pulses through the wall
then smacks his fox eyes.
The building holds
the edge in experience
but he knows
a kid lawyer
whose father
is friends with a bank.
Power Failure
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R. Gerry Fabian is a retired English instructor and editor of Raw Dog Press. He has published in various little and literary magazines since 1970.
He is currently working on a set of new poetry.
–Art by Sagi Kortler