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MARK WISNIEWSKI

To Bukowski, #3


they haven’t
forgotten you & just
as you suspected they are cashing
in on you now that they need
not support you

they use
manuscripts of yours they once rejected

toast to their profits
without mentioning your
name walls of their Manhattan
homes boast
Picassos yet they continue

to scrounge up work you hid
to again make sure
that I pay them








56   The Paris-American

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Mark Wisniewski’s poems have appeared in Poetry, New York Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Hiram Poetry Review, Confrontation, Post Road, and Poetry International. His second novel, Show Up, Look Good, was praised by Ben Fountain, Christine Sneed, Jonathan Lethem, and T. R. Hummer. His fiction has won a Pushcart Prize and appeared in Best American Short Stories.

   
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