Alberto VO5

The thing I like best
about Alberto VO5
Extra Body Shampoo
is not that it contains
nutrients, nor even
that it contains shine-
enhancing nutrients,
but the graceful way
it contains them—
which is the same way
you carry bitter regret,
my love, invisibly,
allowing it to work
its way naturally
through my hair.

↓ Featured Poet #1

POETRY:

Aaron Belz
- Alberto VO5
- You Can’t Pick Your Friend’s Nose

Aaron Belz

Aaron Belz writes poetry in his hometown of St. Louis, Missouri. His work has appeared in Boston Review, Fence, Painted Bride Quarterly, Black Clock, and other places, and his first full-length book, The Bird Hoverer, was published by BlazeVOX in 2007. He can be found at http://belz.net/.

Anti- Thesis:

“I am against the sing-songy way a lot of poets read their poems. You know, with a lilting inflection at the end of each line. Blah! But if I had the power to change one thing it would be the fact that a lot of poets don't use complete sentences in their poems. They seem to be thinking, 'Ah, this is art, my readers will get it.' We don't! The emperor has no clothes!”

Alberto VO5

↓ Featured Poet #1

POETRY:

Aaron Belz

Anti- Thesis:

Aaron Belz

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