Mark Antony Rossi's poetry, criticism, fiction, creative nonfiction and photography have appeared in The Antigonish Review, Anak Sastra, Bareback Magazine, Black Heart Review, Brain of Forgetting, Deep Water Literary Journal, Dirty Chai, Enclave, Expound, Farther Stars Than, Flash Fiction, Gravel, Indian Periodical, Japanophile, Journal of Microliterature, Kulchur Creative Journal, Mad Swirl, On The Rusk, Purple Patch, Scrivener Creative Review, Sentiment Literary Journal, Snapdragon, Syzygy Poetry Journal, The Sacrificial, Toad Suck Review, Transnational, Vine Leaves Literary Journal, Wild Quarterly and Yellow Chair Review. http://ethical-stranger.
***
1. Plan Bhow does a very fat man
teach me about self control
lead first
put down the egg roll.
***
2. When in Rome
After years of trying
To find Virtue
In the Vatican
I realized
I had a better chance
Of seeing my name
Written
In the Dead Sea Scrolls.
***
3. Love Down The Tubes
Her fallopian
Was udder
Utopian
***
4. Ad Dogs
to sell ad space,
Truth
is optional.
headl
i
n
e.
to sell ad space,
time
is ritual.
d
e
a
dline.
to sell ad space,
Soul
is vassal.
f l a t l i n e.
the big noise
of big print
s
t
r
a
y
s
from
the
heart.
