Today’s New Verse News: ON FIRSTS IN (AND OF) A SERIES
by Jen Schneider
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many viewed a sit-down with the master as a sign they had arrived, when the truth seeker knew it was she that would steer the conversation to destinations named truth—dissimilar all the same—amidst streetcars of desire and paths of many firsts breaks airwaves all in a series of views and viewers—direct questions, big scores, time (and timely) covers gets and galas days and nights anchors and achings ports and payscales spoofs and spares drivers and dares trees and trials fears and fashions trials and televisions presidents and precedents interns and internments ladders and legacies truth, done right always (and all) knowing that arrivals are relative and truths measured— in a series of stand-ups and sit-downs up down across town paths well sown it’s not goodbye it’s not goodnight it’s not farewell it’s 20-20 vision, mountains climbed, broadcasts traversed her way an unmeasurable and irreplaceable first a fabulous lady
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Jen Schneider is an educator who lives, writes, and works in small spaces throughout Pennsylvania. Recent works include A Collection of Recollections, Invisible Ink, On Habits & Habitats, and Blindfolds, Bruises, and Breakups.