1/21/2016 0 Comments 2 poems by Mark Antony RossiBerlin (Personal Sketch, 1989) It was the second day of the Wall a beautiful breech birth fifty years in the making I saw the young and the old laugh, cry and drink to freedom and I saw the grim guards beaten by the multitudes and I walked by and remarked “this is the first time Justice has shown its face in East Berlin.” Cult of Capsules What is a cult but organized unhappiness What are drugs but delayed suicide And what is delayed suicide But justice denied For the emotionally impoverished Is this another slap in the face If self extermination is as laborious As self determination. About the author: Mark Antony Rossi's poetry, criticism, fiction and photography have appeared in The Antigonish Review, Another Chicago Review, Bareback Magazine, Black Heart Review, Collages & Bricolages, Death Throes, Ethical Spectacle, Gravel, Flash Fiction, Japanophile, On The Rusk, Purple Patch, Scrivener Creative Review, Sentiment Literary Journal, The Sacrificial ,Wild Quarterly and Yellow Chair Review. http://markantonyrossi.jigsy.com
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