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Ballad of the Lime Cadillac

By Allen Landver
Spring 2022 | Poetry

made from metal scratches like

a stand-up comic or the prophet

on the Strip

Elijah emerges, and I always wanted to

Ask his mother. Does a scratch work?

*

planets warming, ill with gravity, a

rhyme

*

Burned

rubber?

*

was it Cain’s spirit

that western summer

*

“Be biblical like a short story mythologized.

@ $1.99 a bodega of endless wine.”

*

Star says I am always juggling the hours,

the others?

*

Kids. getting high on Mulholland Drive

dirty Cadillacs in morning lime

Allen Landver is a bi-lingual writer from Los Angeles who identifies as disabled. His parents and grandparents are all originally from Odessa and Kyiv in the Ukraine. Recent and forthcoming publications of his writing include Black Warrior Review, Altadena Poetry Review, and RipRap Journal.


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