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Tomorrow (Saturday) at Pilot Books (7 p.m.) Daniel Bailey and Evelyn Hampton will be reading. Mr. Bailey has a collection of sonnets from Magic Helicopter Press called The Drunk Sonnets. His work has appeared in No Colony, Abraham Lincoln, NOÖ Journal, elimae, Opium Magazine and more. He is from a place called Muncie in the State of Indiana. Evelyn Hampton is one of the publishers of Dewclaw and has a story in Birkensnake. She will read something called Sonnets and Black Lace.

A complete “drunk sonnet” by Daniel Bailey (after the page break):

(it came in ALL CAPS via metaphysicaldrinking.blogspot.com):

DRUNK SONNET 17

I AM NOT STILL THINKING ABOUT YOU, NO
I AM NOT STILL THINKING ABOUT YOU AT ALL
I AM NOT STILL THINKING ABOUT YOU
STILL, I AM NOT AT ALL THINKING ABOUT YOU

NOT THINKING ABOUT YOU, NO I’M NOT
WHAT AM I THINKING ABOUT? NOT YOU
IF I AM THINKING ABOUT ANYTHING, IT’S NOT YOU
YOU ARE NOT A THING I’M THINKING ABOUT

WHAT SHOULD I THINK ABOUT? NOT YOU
WHAT CAN I POSSIBLY THINK ABOUT?
WHAT IS THERE TO THINK ABOUT BUT YOU?

THERE’S PLENTY TO THINK ABOUT IN THIS WORLD
WHAT IN MY LIFE AM I THINKING ABOUT?
I AM NOT THINKING ABOUT YOU, THANK GOD

– Daniel Bailey

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