Thomas Fillion's collection of 121 eclectic poems from 2015-2018 covers a range of topics and absurdities of modern life: spam, rise of the alt-right, deportation, NRA child's play, nuclear days off, Hurricane Irma, the glacier that went back for more rocks, Triple X-Rated farming in Texas, digging and cutting turf in Ireland, Cajun country boil, skinny dipping in Sh*t Creek, intelligence briefing and Florida sunsets, hamster wheel of suffering, Nebuchadnezzar and zeroes, racism, the N-word, black history month noisemakers, collisions with butterflies, piano mover and loneliness, test anxiety, crop-dusting the First Amendment, chocolate chip champ, food babies, throwing Hail Marys at Muslims, singing in the choir at Auschwitz, self driving poem, serial killers named Humphrey, colonoscopies, lap dance for truth and beauty, learning from weeds, mailing a box of tumbleweed, and hugging your oligarch daily. These are some of the topics and subjects in this new collection that are sure to entertain, enlighten, anger, and amuse.
Author Biography:
Thomas Fillion is the author of The Dream Mechanic, Giuseppe's Award, When The Moon Is In The Seventh House, New England Book Of The Dead, and poetry collection, Archipelago of Myself.