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issue_12_crotwell

Revisionist

I really like
how you remember what happened
as whatever makes you look best
or most important
or least to blame
That is a talent
like juggling reality balls
while sleeping with a mistress
smoking a cigar
drinking a scotch
reading your bible
and sharpening your lies-
I can still hear the circus music.

 

Dana Beardsley Crotwell is a professor at El Camino College in Torrance, California, teaching literature, composition, critical thinking, and poetry.  Her work has been featured in the journals Calliope and Earth’s Daughters and in the anthologies Proposing on the Brooklyn Bridge, Between Worlds, and The Understanding Between Foxes and Light.  Dana is currently working on a new poetry collection and writing a cookbook.

Contact:  Danasdesk.com or dcrotwell@elcamino.edu
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