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Ice Cream Utopianism
By Matt Duggan
We love all the ice cream round here
over indulging ourselves in the utopianism of mirrors;
Where occasionally we look around
the edges of our own reflections
opening our eyes widely
to see that behind each layer is a sugar coated illusion,
We love all the ice cream round here;
It makes us fat yet our visage thin
the truth is a reflected manipulation
like those twisting mirrors on the seaside pier;
We love all the ice cream round here.
Autor bio: Matt Duggan won the Erbacce prize for poetry 2015. His poems
have appeared in many journals and magazines such as The Seventh
Quarry, Ink, Sweat, and Tears, The New Ulster, Section 8, The
Dawntreader, Roundyhouse, Poetry Quarterly, Illumen, Yellow Chair
Review, Jawline Review, Carillon, The Bitchin’ Kitsch, Vagabonds, Lunar
Poetry Magazine, The Screech Owl, Message in a Bottle, OF/With, IANASP,
The Stare’s Nest, The Cobalt Review, Sarasvati, Expound, Ex-Fic, Trysts of
Fate. Matt created and hosts a spoken word evening at Hydra Bookshop in
Bristol U.K called ‘An Evening of Spoken Indulgence’and is also the coeditor
with Simon Leake of a political poetry magazine called ‘The Angry
Manifesto’. Matt can sometimes be found scribbling poems on bar-matts in
the dark shadows of some Bristol pub or wandering the Quantocks for the
perfect view.