One poem by Victor Peppard

Originally composed in Russian language and translated into literal English by Peppard with the contemporary English language poem composed by poet Stephen A. Rozwenc. This piece represents a prime example of the superior poetic quality achieved by the Special Edition’s collaborators.

COMMUTER DAZE

Ooze out of bed like toothpaste
From a dreamed tube.
Turkey gobble eggs.
Slurp coffee through the front door straw.
Dive headfirst into morning cigar breath
Suburb stench.

Powerline down 
Buzzes on the street 
Like leaves up fuzzy trees
In the brick and cement orchard
Mommy used to call a cemetery.

Get your ass moving.
Buy a ticket on that city train 
To bombed out black snow
With bridges brightly lit
Purple lipstick smears
That lure believers.

Jump onto the car.
Drink grey smoke.
Smoke dark drinks.
Wall lamps squint.                                 

Passengers chatter conversation               
About down below
Or daily indoors dead delirium--
She’ll make love to you 
Like you’re the only one.

Hurtle headlong 
Into the orgasmic abyss—
The giant you-know-what
Which finally begins
When the train car spits
Any commuter out
Onto the station platform.