{"id":4902,"date":"2012-12-14T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T15:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/?p=4902"},"modified":"2013-01-09T09:54:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T14:54:30","slug":"poems-by-jonas-sidell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/poems-by-jonas-sidell\/","title":{"rendered":"Poems by Jonas Sidell"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Don\u2019t Let Me Break Down<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let me slip<\/p>\n

into some category<\/p>\n

of grace and wonder, like tilted rain.\u00a0 Give me something<\/p>\n

I can bleed upon! an honest streak<\/p>\n

over laminated grain. . .\u00a0 Each week<\/p>\n

undresses me: \u2018til I\u2019m meaningless,<\/p>\n

as a blue moon.\u00a0 So fucking lonely.\u00a0 A good CD player<\/p>\n

and a bad transmission, man; find me a woman<\/p>\n

I could be in the dark with.<\/p>\n

Mercy Bath<\/strong><\/p>\n

Delight<\/p>\n

in the body<\/p>\n

and mind, and the possibilities<\/p>\n

that surround<\/p>\n

love<\/p>\n

any given time, any<\/p>\n

age.\u00a0 It\u2019s being able \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 to look<\/p>\n

at the delectable<\/p>\n

moment<\/p>\n

as something to devour.\u00a0 These justifications,<\/p>\n

awkward movements,<\/p>\n

praying for a little grace, some room<\/p>\n

to fail.\u00a0 The body needs this, the mind<\/p>\n

needs this \u2013 we are here, despite<\/p>\n

ourselves, cutting time<\/p>\n

off the distance<\/p>\n

to never<\/em>, hoisting our eyes, briefly,<\/p>\n

back from oblivion.\u00a0 When that spray of expression<\/p>\n

hits, man.\u00a0 Ahhh. . . ain\u2019t that the best! each week\u2019s<\/p>\n

end I bury myself in beer, always somehow for her<\/p>\n

and me, basking<\/p>\n

in the glory,<\/p>\n

indulging our heartscape; dig in<\/p>\n

to the oncoming week, now,<\/p>\n

like it\u2019s the only thing that matters, which of course<\/p>\n

it is.<\/p>\n

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Jonas Kyle-Sidell is an adjunct English teacher at CCBC Catonsville.\u00a0 He is currently seeking book publishment for his book, \u201cOutta Time, in Love,\u201d a collection of these collage-like poems.\u00a0 He\u2019s previously had poems published in the Los Angeles Review, Main Street Rag, Gargoyle, Pearl, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Smile Hon! You\u2019re in Baltimore, Paradigm, The Melancholy Dane, and Welter.<\/p>\n

Illustration by John Whitehead<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jonas Sidell returns to Gadfly with two more poems: lamenting, peering inward, a reflection on the stripped down feeling that comes at the end of each week.<\/p>\n

He meditates on love, music, and alcohol, all components of the end of the week self-assessment, followed by a brief glimpse into next week, an attempt to see the future. But what does the future hold? No one knows.
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