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CEREBRAL SIMILES, 
ET CETERA


by Tom Lyford
(self-appointed rogue Poet Laureate of Dover-Foxcroft for Life-- author of Pleasant Street, Poetic License,
On Becoming a Man of Substance, Americana, Kilroy Was Here, Work Aversion Trauma, My Cinema Paradiso)
 Playing With Fire, and now...
NO DAFFODILS, NO CLOUDS

Click on Picture for ordering information...            Click HERE for the official homepage for No Daffodils, No Clouds

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As of August 3rd, 20212, Tom's new poetry collection goes on sale...

NO DAFFODILS, NO CLOUDS

I wanna write a poem as crooked as Willem
Dafoe’s teeth, a poem as pockmarked
as Tommy Lee Jones’ sour puss…

I wanna write a Meatloaf poem, not
a Manilow, and definitely not a Mel
 ‘the Velvet Fog’ Tormé poem…

I wanna write an “UH-oh!” poem, one that conjures up
the Jaws theme and makes you say something like,
“You’re gonna need a bigger boat!”

An armored-personnel-carrier poem!
A bomb-squad poem!
A flak-jacket poem!

I wanna write an O J Simpson Ford Bronco poem
that’ll lead the coppers and choppers in a cold
pursuit right up the San Diego Freeway!


  PLAYING WITH FIRE

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 "It's a dangerous business, going out your front door..."
                                                 -- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

(CLICK HERE) FOR ORDERING INFORMATION...
(CLICK HERE) FOR ORDERING KINDLE EDITION...

CHAPTER ONE             HOT SHOT
CHAPTER TWO            DEAD IN THE WATER
CHAPTER THREE         JUST PRESS THIS BUTTON
CHAPTER FOUR          ON THE STORAGE AND HANDLING OF CONDIMENTS
CHAPTER FIVE            DOESN'T PLAY NICELY WITH OTHERS 
CHAPTER SIX              JUST A LITTLE GAME OF MUSICAL CHAIR
CHAPTER SEVEN         PLAYING WITH FIRE
CHAPTER EIGHT         FRIENDLY FIRE
CHAPTER NINE           DELIVERANCE
CHAPTER TEN             KILLER MATH PROBLEM
CHAPTER ELEVEN      WOLF AT THE DOOR
CHAPTER TWELVE     TOMMY TESTOSTERONE AT THE DOOR
EPILOGUE                    THE SINS OF THE FATHER

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MY CINEMA PARADISO: A Movie-Marathon Lifetime Memoir in 3-D Poetry

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THREE samples follow:

ALTERED STATES
REEFER MADNESS
THE BIG CHILL

or simply CLICK to look inside...

(Released in April, 2010; 5.25 X 8 inches; 88 pages; 73 poems; perfect bound; Green Bough Publishing; $14.95)
My Cinema Paradiso is a film buff's hymnal to American Cinema, The Great Teacher... The Great Escape. Each of its poems is the namesake of a film (i.e., "Altered States," "Reefer Madness," "The Big Chill"). The book is a Baby Boomer's memoir in poetry, counterpointing events and issues in the author's life with specific films from the 1940's to the present... 

Buy directly from me HERE
...or from Amazon

FOR THOSE INTERESTED, WORK AVERSION TRAUMA IS AVAILABLE  BY SENDING A CHECK OR MONEY ORDER IN THE AMOUNT OF $15.00, ALONG WITH YOUR MAILING ADDRESS, TO

TOM LYFORD
121 PLEASANT STREET
DOVER-FOXCROFT, ME
04426 
Dover-Foxcroft's Rogue Poet Laureate since... well, OK... only 2010