Unwashed Stars

By Daniel Hargrove

Jimmy quickly gets tired of country life, and decides to take his chances and move to the city with enough money to rent a small apartment, but then... (*warning* Not for careless readers.)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Daniel Hargrove
• Release date: Jul 20, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463633991

Daniel Hargrove

As poets go, Daniel Hargrove is pretty OK. His poems range from the sappy and sentimental to the arcane and dangerous to the dark and laughable. And when I say laughable, I mean in the sense that you may rofl, lmao, or even, in extreme circumstances, LOL!Writing poetry is hard work, and Dan has given up entirely in favor of smoking cigars and drinking coffee. For this reason, he is taking it upon himself to sort through the endless and tiresome formatting rules, changes, and outright demands that his cohorts in the publishing industry have seen fit to belabor us with, and dumb down all his books to fit the bill.As a consolation prize, he is offering a crisp clean $20 dollar bill to anyone who 1) Reads all his books all the way through, and proves it in an email by naming a word in the second poem in each book and counting the words up to that word, giving a number as reference, also 2) Supplying an address or P.O. box where I can mail the money, and 3) Leaving a review that is at least 50 words in length for at least one book. Sincerely hope you enjoy your sentence!

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Unwashed Stars

by Daniel Hargrove

All work, copyright 2019

Table of Contents

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Downtown

The Drunk Tank

Court

Free

A Night's Sleep

Star

County Card

Fate

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Jimmy moves to the city, falls prey to alcoholism,

loses his job, and ends up on the streets.

He is 24.

It is hot in July in Vicksburg,

and Jimmy lies on the oily pavement

downtown, he never stops sweating.

His clothes have gotten grimy

over the last few weeks

when he last dared a laundromat

to have him removed from the premises,

and when he could last

get together the three dollars

for the washer and dryer.

His hair