{"id":3541,"date":"2015-02-17T18:23:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T18:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=3541"},"modified":"2015-03-27T00:52:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T00:52:12","slug":"marvin-gay-is-dead-a-poem-by-john-kaniecki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/marvin-gay-is-dead-a-poem-by-john-kaniecki\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvin Gay is Dead. A Poem by John Kaniecki"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
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\nPapers
\nHonorable discharge
\nSerial killers some serial rapers
\nThanx for the fun sarge
\nHeroin pulsating
\nAll the while hating
\nEverything about everything
\nAnd survival
\nHas no rival
\nExcept those who persist
\nAnd reenlist
\nAnd if I didn\u2019t give a damn
\nI would not be writing
\nI would not find it exciting
\nTo lay my treasures at your feet
\nDelicate and sweet
\nMy dear madam
\nTake your wars
\nCold and hot
\nAll your scores
\nNever forgot
\nWrite them in a big black book
\nBury them in Egypt or Saigon
\nThen dig em up to take a look
\nAnd see what\u2019s going on
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\nMy name is John Kaniecki, I have been published by Struggle Magazine, The Blue Collar Review, Burning Books, Jerry Jazz, IWW Newspaper, Protest Poems, Flute, Black Magnolia, Left Curve, She Mom, Whisper, Vox Poetica and others. Though political or moral in nature I write in various forms. My poems have appeared in over fifty outlets.
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\nI have a chapbook of poetry published on Cavalcade of Stars. In addition I have a poetry book entitled ”
\n Murmurings of a Mad Man<\/a> just out this September.
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\nI have two stories published one in Struggle Magazine and the other in Cavalcade of Stars. I have a story The Sin of A.D.A.M. published by Witty Bard. I have a book of science fiction stories entitled ” Words of the Future<\/a>” published by Witty Bard in.
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\nMy chapbook “The Second Coming of Victoria” was a quarter finalist in the Mary Ballard chapbook contest in 2014.
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\nThe artist I most admire is Woodie Guthrie because he lived what he wrote and what he wrote was wonderful.
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\nI also recently won the Joe Hill Poetry Labor Prize where I read my poem Tea With Joe Hill, in front of a crowd of over six hundred people in Banning Park , Los Angeles .
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\nI currently serve as secretary for Rhyming Poets International and I am a member of the Revolutionary Poet’s Brigade.
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