Curious Emanations

By Max Frick

"...just a response to what struck me as beauty, whether it was a curious emanation from a being or an object or a situation or a landscape..." Leonard Cohen

• Language: English
• Publisher: Max Frick
• Release date: May 22, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463647288

Max Frick

Max Frick was born in Scotland where he spent more than half of his life thus far in a new town not dissimilar to the one depicted in his novel Debaser. At the age of twenty-five, seeking something a little more fulfilling than the drudgery and routine that his hometown had to offer, he upped sticks and moved to Prague in the Czech Republic, where he imagined artists and bohemians drank freely and deeply from the cup of life. There he would write! There he would shine! There he would make his name! There, alas, he lives to this day in a life of drudgery and routine not dissimilar to the one depicted at the beginning of this bio.

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Curious Emanations

Twenty-Two Poems

by Max Frick

Smashwords Edition

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Coffee House Blues

A popcorn latte, was it, sir? she beamed

Her words, lighter than air, seemed to echo

And fade, and blend with the shop's aroma of slow

Roasted coffee beans. My heart swelled and I dreamed

Of a world behind the smile. A world

Where every man, woman and child enjoyed

Rude health in glinting sunlight and were buoyed

On a swell wave that never broke or curled

Where I was a handsome man with styled hair and a career

I walked assuredly, sometimes in slow motion

Often in high fashion, with no notion

Of insecurity or rent arrears

And she, my wife, in a clean kitchen cooked

Hearty, wholesome meals in big pristine pots

That not only looked, but tasted, great, not

Like something the dog had ate and puked

Because, really, how