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ANTHONY LICCIONE Fleas swimming above these fleas at my feet, if using my big toe as a diving board, and into the pool of my skin looking for free blood- these backbiters, moochers–who let these little annoyances in my door, looking for an overcoat to slumber the night or month, a rug in the corner snug of warmth- snoring below, two fans blowing three flies buzzing in the basement of summer mildew, uncle stan sits, out of a job and still able to afford beer in his hand help-wanted ads, cigarette butts stamped out in a skull shaped ashtray. he always explains, they are looking for only experience, a little something to go along with a degree-- and I say why not bluff them, go to the library study the subject and bring it in the interview, do what you do well, tell a lie, frost it white- lay it out on the table feed them baloney and rye, and I say that even a dishwasher knows more than soap and water, sometimes he just gets under my skin, so much I would like to kick him out to the dogs.
ANTHONY LICCIONE lives in Texas with his wife and two children. He has three collections of poetry: Heaven's Shadow (Foothills Publishing), Parched and Colorless (The Moon Publishing) and Back Words and Forward (Publish America). His forth book, Please Pass Me, the Blood & Butter is now available through Lulu Press.
