Lip Service

By Jeremy Garcon

Jeremy Garcon's poetry goes for the jugular typically his own.

A master storyteller and communicator, Garcon takes an unflnching look at life and love, relationships and sex, monogamy, marriage, and growing up in a dysfunctional family and world. Lip Service gives voice to characters and dialogue in a way few poetry collections have and it leaves readers laughing, longing, and wanting more.

"These are amazing poems, Jeremy Garcon is very smart

one way we know is that he put the poem Think first.

Read that and just try not to read the rest."

Shannon Ravenel
Former Editor
Best American Short Stories
New Stories from the South

For more information visit: www.jeremygarcon.com

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 24, 2014
• ISBN: 9781493198528

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Copyright © 2014 by Jeremy Garcon

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Rev. date: 07/23/2014

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Contents

Think

On The Corner of S and Connecticut

Not a Topic for Polite Company

I Kiss Frankie on the Mouth

All You Need is a Costume

Color Wheel

The Price is Right

Moment of Impact

Big Red Ball

Missed Flight

Worthy Boy

My Aunt Judy Died Last Night

Still Life

Something too Small to See

My First Night on Suicide Watch

Elvis and Me

Rock Star

Stop Gap

That Yacht Club

Smoking Hot 12-Year-Old

Jeff

Nice Things

Lunch with the Girls

Mixed Message

This Is What It’s Like When a Good Friend Is Killed While Walking His Dog

Young Man in a T-Shirt

Rinse and Repeat

For Liz Rees – without you, I’d never have been able to think.

Think

You’d think my partner would be kind

enough to remove his boyfriend’s

water glass from my side of the bed.

I mean, I don’t drink water at night

so it’s not like he’s confused.

The Boy Scouts taught him kindness

and respect, the importance of leaving

a camp site the way you found it.

But, sometimes, lessons get tangled

by distractions, things like:

other boys in a troop—or our bed.

And an ecosystem can be forever altered

by something as small as

a water glass left behind.

Half empty, half full,

depending