Poetry
Todd Moore

i watched mack carve his name into his left arm he was using a case double x jack knife as tho it were a pen care fully slitting the skin the blood filling in the lines then he looked at me & sd blood's the only way a name can breathe ©Todd Moore 2000 i think i've written ten thousand bios over the years. born at the tag end of the great depression. two college degrees which hang on me like scabs. thirty years a public school teacher & a poet. i taught to put bread on the table. i wrote to dream.

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