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Did I mean to stalk the streets in cothurni? Shit, no. (another fine mess chalked up to clueless hubris), that dogs the consumer, scammed with apotheosis Elevation was my downfall, catastrophe <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cPimp Shoes\u201d by Philip Fried was published in Cohort [Salmon Poetry, Ireland, 2009.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Philip Fried (1945\u2015 ), earned a B.A. in English at Antioch College, an M.F.A. in Poetry at the Writers Workshop, University of Iowa, and a Ph.D. in Literature at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. On writing sonnets, he has this to say, \u201cI draw inspiration from the sonnet\u2019s origins to update it for the Digital Age. Linked from its earliest days to legal proceedings and a modern psychology of conflicted love, the sonnet held together what wanted to fly apart. I have re-conceived the contemporary sonnet as an arena where fragments of self and samples of lingo play off against one another.\u201d His poems have appeared in such journals as Beloit Poetry Journal, New Orleans Review, Partisan Review, Paris Review and Tin House. The most recent of his five published books of poetry is Early\/Late: New and Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry, Ireland, 2011), which was called \u201cskillful and memorable\u201d by Publishers Weekly.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n This sonnet is pre-published with the permission of the Editor-in-chief from:Richard Vallance, editor-in-chief. The Phoenix Rising from the Ashes: Anthology of sonnets of the early third millennium = Le Ph\u00e9nix renaissant de ses cendres : Anthologie de sonnets au d\u00e9but du troisi\u00e8me mill\u00e9naire. Friesen Presse, Victoria, B.C., Canada. \u00a9 2013. approx. 240 pp. ISBN Hardcover: 978-1-4602-1700-9 Price: $28.00 Paperback: 978-1-4602-1701-6 Price: $18.00 e-Book: 978-1-4602-1702-3 Price: TBA<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>300 sonnets & ghazals in English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese & Persian. Selected sonnets are pre-published by our permission in Poetry Life & Times (UK) which has exclusive sole rights prior to the publication of the anthology itself. Readers may also contact Richard Vallance, Editor-in-Chief, at: vallance22@gmx.com for further information. http:\/\/vallance22.hpage.com\/<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n
\nI just failed to foresee the precarious vaudeville wobble
\nas the head with its chorus surveys what\u2019s unsteady below,
\nits kibitzing voices tsk-tsking a double hobble <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\nhands groping for balance but looking as if I would break
\n<\/b><\/span><\/span>into patter-song: oh hamartia, convivial riff.
\n<\/strong>And a fool might truly say, he\u2019s a dupe of the Fate <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\nand the heady allure of a glowing ocher toe cap.
\nBut watch me teeter in glory, a pimp Oedipus,
\neyes level with second-floor shops for Pedi-Mani.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\nmy rise. And my marrow\u2019s red honey\u2014fear, pity.
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