John Mangini is the Author of Pleasure Seeker. His second book of poetry And Then There Was Me will be out by early summer, and his third book Around The World And Back Again is a collection of stories, poetry, and a play entitled The Traveler will by out by mid summer.
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Lonesome
I search
to find
nothing
but
Pennsylvania
January
dangling
icicles
from my door
while the piano
plays jazz
and
the mail man
delivers scrap
and
retired men
dressed in
fury hats
walk dogs
through my
frozen
gray
yard
leaving me
to the
entertainment
of feces
smoking
grass
III
I love to close my eyes
late at night and imagine
I live in a collage of jazz,
buried between photographs
of New York City 1950
black and white club scenes
of cigarettes and clouded smoke,
songstresses and lone microphones,
brass and ivory
and black folk
in felt fedoras
calling me Cat.
Once To Know
What tortures brought
by random thought
search the ocean floor,
rancid marks of discontent
leave the muscles sore,
ache and pain and misery
comes when comes the end,
yet; once to know is better
than to not have known a friend.