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Zvi A. Sesling, the Poet Laureate of Brookline, MA, is an award winning poet whose poetry is online and in print in more than 200 publications and numerous countries. He publishes Muddy River Books and edits Muddy River Poetry Review. He reviews books for the Boston Small Press and Poetry Scene. Sesling is the author of four volumes of poetry as well as two chapbooks, Across Stones of Bad Dreams and Love Poems From Hell. He lives in Brookline, MA. with his wife Susan J. Dechter.       

Carnivores

Zvi A. Sesling

The trip to New York was

what one could have expected:

fleshless whores in Times Square

peddling their skeletal remains

cabbies mouthing soundless

invectives at dead pedestrians

trying to cross to their cement

cemeteries where elevators

take them to heaven or hell

alligators came out of the sewers

to devour blind tourists and deaf

mothers whose children abandoned

them for autographed baseballs being

signed outside the last strip joint where

tv talk show hosts battled for interviews

when the moon came out wolves

prowled the streets licking the naked

thighs of young girls being sacrificed

to old men who could afford them

— Zvi A. Sesling

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