Poems in the Key of Life: Glimpses from the Underbelly

By Edward W. Houston

Poems In The Key Of Life: Glimpses From The Underbelly is a raw, grab life by the horns, tell it like it is look at life through the eyes of a reformed faker. The author, who found freedom after being in bondage to heroin for twenty-five years shares a unique perspective of life through poetry. Ordinary everyday life events viewed through the eyes of a wolf in sheep's clothing. Poetry that may be hard to swallow for some, but is the every day manna for many. Glimpses From The Underbelly gives the reader a penetrating, yet safe, glance, through poetry, at a parallel existence growing right below the surface of our societal norm.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Sep 19, 2007
• ISBN: 9780595911745

Edward W. Houston

These poems are an eclectic collection of poems penned by the author from fifty-odds years of observing life with one foot firmly planted in the ideal of correct social behavior and the other on the slippery slope which is the flip side of idealism: reality. The author now lives in Los Angeles and works as a social worker.

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