The Two Faces of Evy

By Evelyn Cole

Poems to examine several aspects of life

Evelyn Cole, MA, MFA, wrote novels because they were challenging and fun. She still writes poetry because she must whenever life's needle pokes her to wonder, shiver, laugh, or cry. She still plays ping pong, attends a critiq

• Language: English
• Publisher: URLink Print & Media, LLC
• Release date: Feb 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9781684860555

Evelyn Cole

Evelyn Cole, MA, MFA, of San Luis Obispo County, CA, is a failed sea kayaker, a successful cook, failed saleslady, successful professor, failed webmaster, successful ping ponger, failed golfer, successful wife/lover, and mother who wears her poetic license on her car, her head in the sand, and her heart in her pen. Because she believes in honest critiques, she is a member Nightwriters in San Luis Obispo,CA and has attended several writing conferences including two full summer conferences at Bennington College, Vermont. She has published one textbook, one poetry book, and three novels. Available at Amazon.com and http://www.coles-poetic-license.com Each one of her novels has an independent theme, but all her main characters eventually face their built-in weaknesses.

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The Two Faces of

EVY

Evelyn Cole

The Two Faces of Evy

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ISBN 978-1-68486-054-8 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-68486-055-5 (Digital)

10.11.21

Thanks to San Luis Obispo County’s Poets on the Edge for working me over for years

And to my very best husband forever,

John F. Turrill

Poetry is like mathematics. Both force us to recognize the relationship between two concepts coming from disparate levels of abstraction.

Einstein hinted that we cannot fix a plumbing problem with an historian no matter how polite he is.

Nor can we solve a pandemic with bleach!

You won’t need a math dictionary to read mine and you don’t need to read the pages in order. Many pages have lots of room for you to react. Bring your pen. . .

Simply open the book at random, take two readings a day and call me in the morning.

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CONTENTS

DAILY DEATHS 2020

WRITE FOR LIFE!

WHAT’S THE NUMBER TODAY?

A CONEY ISLAND OF MY MIND

SEARCH FOR SLUMBER

FANTASY #144

I’M LEARNING HOW TO THINK

DECREPITANCE

BACK-WORLDS and BACKWORDS

BARBARA IN FROZEN

I CAN’T THINK STRAIGHT

THOUGHTS ON COURAGE

NAKED LADIES

AT A LOCAL …FUN. . .RAISER

LOST IT

ANOTHER SUICIDE P0EM

CARETAKING

SENSES

ELECTRONIC HELL

I NEVER ENJOYED GOSSIP

I PINE FOR MORPHINE

IT’S JUST FACEBOOK, etc.

1945 April

THE SECOND PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE 2020

JANUARY 20, 2021

THE THREE MAIN GENERATIONS

LOSS

WORLD NEWS

GEOGRAPHY OF HUMAN SOUNDS

FARMERS’ MARKET THURSDAY EVENING

FALL

THE DEAR DEPARTED

HOW TO KILL PREJUDICE

THE PERFORMERS

The IZE have it

THERE WAS A BOY …

JUST BEFORE HE DIED

AND THE SON SHALL …

AN ODE TO BEEF SWEETBREADS

ALONE

HUMAN FIGHTS

ANOTHER BROAD STREET FALL

YES ADAM

LONELINESS IS AS LETHAL AS SMOKING TWO PACKS A DAY

LIFE How’s that for a specific title?

TRAIN DRIVING

SCREAM ROOMS

THE VAST, THE VOID, AND THE BEAUTY

CHRISTMAS EVE, FIN DE SIECLE

BEAUTY

LONELINESS

LITTLE RIFFS AND MYTH PERCEPTIONS

LE PUTOIS D’AMERIQUE

KILLINGS

HYMN TO SUCCESS

CONSCIOUSNESS CONUNDRUM

THE RISORGIENTO

PARENTS AND PETS

MR. RUDE

MY QUIET HUSBAND

MY MOST SIGNIFICANT ACT

ODE TO OLD AGE

ODD MEMORY

PLEASURES 0F OLD AGE

PREGNANT?

SEARCH FOR SLUMBER pre-pandemic

MAY THE SANE REIGN

A SWEET ENDING

Determination of Life’s Purpose

DO CLOTHES MAKE THE WOMAN?

LIFE IS A CIRCLE

DIFFERENT STROKES FOR DIFFERENT FOLKS

FANTASY #144

FEARLESS

GENDERING

HI, HOW ARE YOU?

I WANT TO DIE

Re: Telling the Truth with KEVIN CLARK

MISERY

AMUSING HOSPITAL WOUNDS

MY MOST SIGNIFICANT ACT

SLEEP, PLEASE WRAP ME

SMALL PLEASURES

STRANGE FEELING

LOVE POEMS as if the others were not:

LAMENT FOR TWICE LOST LOVE

HOW DO I LOVE THEE?

THE POWER OF BROTHERS

SEX (THE FRIENDLY KIND)

HAUNTING REFRAIN

TRUE CLICHES

A CHRISTMAS LOVE SONG

A QUIET MAN

A WET VALENTINE

THE HEART OF THE MATTER

WHAT DOES SPIRITUAL MEAN?

HIS FIRST MONTH November 2019

MY SISTER MARGIE April 6, 2018

HOSPITAL DAZE

YOUR DEEP BLUE EYES

HOMESPEAK

ADAGIO

A ROAST TO JOHN at our wedding, 2002

DAILY DEATHS 2020

The numbers keep climbing

I graduated from the hospital care center with a broken leg to an apartment complex for food (and time to assemble my suicide poems) in March when California first shut down. We’ve been down since.

My heart and my love died this year. I’m staying alive to finish my poetry book and please Red, at URLink, who has called me every day to support all my writing way beyond his need to keep clients buying advertising.

A few of my novels will be advertised on You-tube.

If that does not increase sales, I won’t be surprised, nor sad. My tastes in literature tend towards Tom Robbins, who inspired me.

He succeeded. I did not, but I had one hell of a lot of fun creating female characters with addictions that arose from specific and tough childhoods, the kind that