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Free Broadside With Paid Subscription & Purchase Of Jim Trainer's 9th Full-Length Collection

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JIM TRAINER'S POEM OF THE WEEK FEATURED IN BOOK OF MATCHES LITERARY JOURNAL

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Oct 16, 2023
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IMMUREMENT

will love un-twin from its vengeance
the temple walls flap 
like the wings of a bird
can I fold up the path and stow it
with this kip of broken prayers?

there is no answer to the question
it just upends
like a hooked shark snapping
up gulpfulls of suffocating

the myths were signs
leading, at last,
to nowhere

your place at the table
wine, plate, stockade

grief is a continual loss of the same thing
the devil and you looking back
the lesson lingering

like a switch
across a ghost of the teacher’s desk

Down at the office we couldn’t be more pleased to announce the soft release of PISSING IN THE PRESS POOL, 3 Years Of Samizdat At Into The Void.

PISSING IN THE PRESS POOL
, an anthology of least factual, most accurate missives from the columnist's desk, was written for Into The Void Magazine between 2018-2021 everywhere from the campus lake to the Black Sea.

My 9th full-length collection (and 8th of 10 through Yellow Lark Press) is available for presale with free shipping until its hard announce on the corporate feeds. 

Sign on as a paid subscriber to Pissing In The Press Pool weekly and receive a free broadside with your purchase.

Help fund the publication of PISSING IN THE PRESS POOL with a presale purchase at 20% off.

Sempre caro,
TRAINER
AUSTIN TX

PISSING IN THE PRESS POOL AT 20% OFF

Paying subscribers to Pissing In The Press Pool weekly are entitled to a free broadside of the poem “RECURRENT” with their purchase of Trainer’s 9th full-length collection.

Limited edition broadside of “RECURRENT,” letterpressed in black ink on 100lb. lemondrop-yellow paper.  Price includes shipping.

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