5/20/2018 0 Comments Poetry By Ace Boggess“Glasses = Intellectuals?” —found scribbled in a book As William James would wear them were it the tool to view his surrounding potential causalities without staring through a grimy window. I’ve seen too many sad-sack scholars whose lives were ruled by paperwork or news that made them mute to reason. Have their effete spectacles helped? Have mine? Let’s do a census on how many senators, delegates, mayors, & members of local school boards wear them. Yesterday, I watched a man in glasses bicycle down the street, shouting, “Bitch! I’ll kill you!” at no one, unless he spoke to Divinity in the existential manner, placing himself on a sage-like quest, following the path of Zarathustra. Bio: Ace Boggess is author of three books of poetry, most recently Ultra Deep Field (Brick Road, 2017), and the novel A Song Without a Melody (Hyperborea, 2016). He is an ex-con, ex-reporter, ex-husband, and exhausted by all the things he isn’t anymore. His poetry has appeared in Harvard Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Rattle, River Styx, and many other journals. He lives in Charleston, West Virginia.
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