MasticadoresUsa // Editor: Barbara Leonhard //“So There Is This Cognitive Evolution, See” by Colin James
Photo by Pille Kirsi on Pexels.com So There Is This Cognitive Evolution, SeeThe man had been
treated roughly.
Shoulder badly bruised
almost dislocated.
Dogs slaughtered.
Barn burnt throughly.
Reflection pond filled in
and his quiet private road
blocked by a huge boulder.
You can imagine my horror
when I searched the cupboard
and saw there was no ketchup.
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Colin James has published a couple of poetry chapbooks. Dreams Of The Really Annoying from Writing Knights Press, A Thoroughness Not Deprived of Absurdity from Piski’s Porch Press, and a book of poems, Resisting Probability, from Sagging Meniscus Press. He lives in Massachusetts with two cats, Dorothy and Jane.
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