Picaroon Poetry - Issue #6 - January 2017
This issue has quite the mix of voices, from adorably sinister to tenderly brutal, deadly serious to charmingly irreverent, and everything in between. Featuring work by Peycho Kanev, Karen Little, Stephen Nelson, Mike Jewett, Belinda Rimmer, Lizzie Holden, Darren C. Demaree, Wren Tuatha, Uma Dwivedi, Mark J. Mitchell, Chris Hardy, Seth Jani, Elizabeth Gibson, Harry Gallagher, Bobbie Sparrow, Stephen Daniels, Kitty Coles, Gareth Writer-Davies, Michael Albright, Richard King Perkins II, Tonya Eberhard, Ann Howells, James Bell, Paul Vaughan, Larry O. Dean, Shadwell Smith, and Rex Davies.
This issue has quite the mix of voices, from adorably sinister to tenderly brutal, deadly serious to charmingly irreverent, and everything in between.
Featuring work by Peycho Kanev, Karen Little, Stephen Nelson, Mike Jewett, Belinda Rimmer, Lizzie Holden, Darren C. Demaree, Wren Tuatha, Uma Dwivedi, Mark J. Mitchell, Chris Hardy, Seth Jani, Elizabeth Gibson, Harry Gallagher, Bobbie Sparrow, Stephen Daniels, Kitty Coles, Gareth Writer-Davies, Michael Albright, Richard King Perkins II, Tonya Eberhard, Ann Howells, James Bell, Paul Vaughan, Larry O. Dean, Shadwell Smith, and Rex Davies.
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Helpdesk<br />
Paul Vaughan<br />
Her jaw dislocated<br />
when they got the ‘phone bill<br />
charging eight hundred and eighty-two pounds<br />
for a forty-two hour call<br />
to Bulgaria at premium rate.<br />
In small print,<br />
if you need help, please contact us,<br />
we’ll see what we can do.<br />
She rang, explained that she had not called up<br />
Annie’s Farting Fetish Line and,<br />
having checked with him,<br />
neither had her husband.<br />
She got upset,<br />
when the customer service officer<br />
sounded oh so bored by her repetitive insistence<br />
that something must be wrong.
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