ISBN 978-1-923156-72-2
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black sheep poems
dear reader,
we are strangers you and i me a farmer of words all tangled from the violent paddock and criminal path of my broken existence and you searching for the escape only poems can give in between the humdrum and echo of your routine life i pity you as i pity me we never asked for words to undo this noose where we search for meanings to carry us from time i give to you the untamed weather inside the painted word drawings of my heart and you opening up this book allow me to exist
dear reader
i thank you for that for here i ask you to read this unrehearsed broken tune of poems from your heart (where true thoughts are made) while casting your anchor outside the deaf and desolate unreachable sharpness that limps your routine i do not require your like or dislike of my melted tune
here is no audience i seek dear reader only hands to open the vault of this book where now i breathe dear reader we are strangers you and i.
About the Author
At 12 Mike Pedrana wanted to be a poet. ‘It’s not just the poetry but the poets themselves I could relate to. The more I read about them, their genius, their madness, their poverty, their escapisms, their exile, and their suicides, the more I knew I was one.
Anyone can write a poem. But not everyone is a Poet’. (Phone Interview | Roebourne Prison 1991)