The murder of cows reached a
tipping point,
moues on their long faces,
scapegoats baaad to the bone
horsing around,
neighsaying from the
bullpen, snorting, seeing
red, running on about Pimp Lona,
manure-mouthed rapping
porker from Bed Sty who’ll
wallow anything, even the
sleeping dog’s lies, that dumb
cluck, chicken to the
bone beneath his cocksure
crowing.
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Tom Hazuka has published three novels, The Road to the Island, In the City of the Disappeared, and Last Chance for First, as well as a book of nonfiction, A Method to March Madness: An Insider’s Look at the Final Four (co-written with C.J. Jones). He has edited or co-edited the short story anthologies Flash Fiction; Flash Fiction Funny; Sudden Flash Youth; You Have Time for This; and A Celestial Omnibus: Short Fiction on Faith. He teaches fiction writing at Central Connecticut State University. Links to his writing and original songs can be found at tomhazuka.com.