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    The Boulevard of Broken Discourse
    The Boulevard of Broken Discourse
    The Boulevard of Broken Discourse
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    The Boulevard of Broken Discourse

    By Matthew Freeman

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    Matthew Freeman’s poems explore the difficulty of navigating and making peace with an environment that is both mentally and physically confusing. For many years Matthew struggled with mental illness and his experiences have fed his unique perspective. Thanks to the newest treatments, he is able to give voice to subjects that in the past would have been consigned to silence. His home of St. Louis, Missouri provides the setting for many of his poems and is a constant source of inspiration.many of his poems and is a constant source of inspiration.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCoffeetown Press
    Release dateNov 1, 2011
    ISBN9781603811378
    The Boulevard of Broken Discourse
    Author

    Matthew Freeman

    Matthew freeman discovered he was a poet when he was ruined with love as a teenager. So began a cross-country journey that would leave him expelled from school and committed to an asylum, diagnosed with schizophrenia. After several years he was able to begin his recovery and finish his degree at Saint Louis University, where he was awarded the Montesi Prize. He is now an MFA candidate at the University of Missouri and was recently honored with their graduate prize in poetry. He continues to be poet in residence at Adapt, Missouri.

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      The Boulevard of Broken Discourse - Matthew Freeman

      The Boulevard of Broken Discourse

      Poems

      Matthew Freeman

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

      Published by Coffeetown Press

      PO Box 70515

      Seattle, WA 98127

      For more information go to:

      www.coffeetownpress.com

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      Cover Photo by Josh Hopwood

      Cover design by Sabrina Sun

      The Boulevard of Broken Discourse

      Copyright © 2012 by Matthew Freeman

      ISBN: 978-1-60381-136-1 (Trade Paper)

      ISBN: 978-1-60381-137-8 (eBook)

      Produced in the United States of America

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the author's work.

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      "And on the morrow an evil

      spirit from God rushed upon Saul,

      and he raved within his house,

      while David was playing the lyre,

      as he did day by day"

      — 1 Samuel 18:10

      Contents

      Gateway

      Entering School

      Up From Under

      The Four Causes

      Touch Fear

      Hazelnuts

      My Material

      An Aardvark Answers Aptly as Ants Advance

      Big Money

      Family Reunion Vignette

      Crazy In Love

      Light My Fire Incident

      Typical

      I Will Steal Your Girlfriend

      Honeysuckle Error

      My Advanced Degree

      Only One Way of Looking at a Cure Fan

      Come from the Devil

      Nothing Outside the Text

      Hard to Hope

      Please Apollo Please

      Nothing in Sight

      Love Will Destroy My Enemies

      Focus on the SUV

      High Degree (7 Years Sober)

      Morphine Shot

      My Favorite Metaphor

      A Little Present

      Stripped Down at Racanelli’s

      Sad Little Thoreau

      His Eyes

      Procovery

      Hard Out Here for a Paranoid Poet

      Degree to be Conferred Upon Paranoid Schizophrenic

      I Know What Girls Know

      The Heights

      Christabel

      Highfalutin Hooker

      To Tell You the Truth

      Head on Her Lap in the Day Room

      Come Again?

      Gender Issues and My Pen

      Closet Gnostic

      All the Blank VerseYou Can Handle

      Scumbagesque

      Being Right is Not a Bulletproof Vest

      My Little Bird

      Jesus Dollars

      The Lost Canto

      On the Real

      Notes from Columbia

      Sad Pimp

      Part Reform at Forest Park

      Gateway

      I do not know

      whether the

      river is

      soft or hard,

      only

      that it spills

      its wine-dark

      mind

      into

      an ocean

      which will

      never

      fully reveal itself.

      Entering School

      Uh oh, here comes the hate, humility,

      pent up because I didn’t sleep with her.

      I’m wronged and down, it’s difficult to dream;

      what’s worse—my genial spirits fail the grave

      and all but gone the hoboes fade away,

      the picaresque vagabonds gently gray,

      when suddenly the jabs at academe

      turn soft caresses from the sanguine lips

      too eager to deny the ragged trips

      we took.

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