NVN Friday: DEMO
by Michel Steven Krug
Jeff Koterba / Cagle Cartoons
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In the House there’s treachery afoot. A leader sandwiched by volleys of red sensation and what formerly was known as consensus. And the price to be paid: parliamentary demo- li-tion. I move that the Country Avert economic infanticide By installing cold showers That spray the margins where Passion plays like theatre To astound the outer rings.
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Michel Steven Krug is a Minneapolis poet, fiction writer, former print journalist from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and he litigates. His poems have appeared in Sierra Nevada Review, Jerry Jazz, Whistling Shade, St. Paul Almanac, Liquid Imagination, Blue Mountain Review, Portside, New Verse News, JMWW, Cagibi, Silver Blade, Crack the Spine, Dash, Mikrokosmos, North Dakota Quarterly, Eclectica, Writers Resist, Sheepshead, Mizmor Anthology, Poets Reading the News, Ginosko, Door Is A Jar, Raven's Perch, Main Street Rag and Brooklyn Review. His collection Jazz at the International Festival of Despair is scheduled for publication by Broadstone Books, in the spring, 2024.