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Jack
Shuler was
born and raised in Orangeburg, South
Carolina where he ate his share of Earl Duke's barbecue. He's in the MFA
poetry program at Brooklyn College and has had his poems published in
various
locales including Brooklyn Review, S.P.A.W.N., and BigCityLit.com.
He has
also had several essays concerning contemporary poetics published in The
South Carolina Review.
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Animals
Are Excellent
Jack
Shuler
They continued reproducing mindlessly
with no thought to how it might affect
the economy of their household.
There was a good gut feeling, for sure,
but nothing they could spend or touch.
Then, like the icey fingers of a noreaster,
it came to them. The cows and the goats
give us milk. The chickens give us cakes
and nog. Because of the horse, we have glue.
© 2001 by Jack Shuler
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Volume
II Issue I