how you tame a lion is with a chair and whip, but with a man it's best to grab a bible and beat him over the head with it singing god and country and man oh my... praise be to america's wet-nurses vibratingbedsalesmen mudbug- harvesters undertakers failed honkytonk coverbands anyone who's anyone whose half-a-mind believes in the voice of a mob and the pursuit of life liberty and that which is wholly purchasable with a preferred line of credit at melvin’s flower boutique & whackshack or that truckstop off yeehaw junction where the nuns disguise themselves as french- tickler dispensers waiting for priests from the xxx goat-foot-emporium and how did you say philosophy was Born?
M.P. Powers lives with one foot in Berlin and one in South Florida. Recent publications include the Columbia Review, Wrongdoing Magazine, Glitchwords, Mayday Magazine, and others. His artwork can be found on Twitter and Instagram @mppowers1132
Rough Diamond Poetry 