Way Past Midnight On The Other Side Of Real Estate

Way Past Midnight on the Other Side of Real Estate

- A collection of poetry and prose

By Samuel Vargo

Way Past Midnight on the Other Side of Real Estate, Copyright 2015 and Copyright 2017 by Samuel Vargo. All Rights Reserved. No part of this poetry collection can be copied or reproduced without the consent of the author, Samuel Vargo

Way Past Midnight on the Other Side of Real Estate is dedicated to my good friend and fellow writer Kenny Bullock, author of the surrealistic absurdist novel, The Years the Locusts Ate.

Acknowledgements and earlier publications -

Way Past Midnight on the Other Side of Real Estate is Copyright 2015 by Samuel Vargo. All poems and prose pieces have earlier Copyrights, as well, and are under Copyrights drafted during the year of their earlier publications online or in print journals and magazines. Here is a list of acknowledgements of previous publications which appear in this book of poetry, with the poems appearing in alphabetical order: A Labyrinth of Stones and Feathers, from Late Knocking, Winter 1998/1999 (a print journal of the Hartford Poetry Society, Hartford, Maryland). Alley Cat, Mastodon Dentist, an online literary e-zine that is now defunct. anymore, from Poetry Motel - broadside (print), 1998. Anymore Revisited, from undergroundwindow.com volume 1, issue 14, now defunct. Bad Love is Eaten like Hot Dogs, from Centrifugal Eye, Winter, 2008, an online magazine still publishing. Beggar. from Clark Street Review, No. 4, San Luis Obispo, Calif., 1999, p. 22, a print digest now defunct. Big News Day Hooray!!! from Edifice Wrecked, Issue 7, an online literary e-zine., February./March 2005; and from Revolver, posted Nov. 4, 2011, an online literary magazine, still publishing. Black Coffee at Daybreak, from Censored Poets (a LitBlog), posted Monday, February 05, 2007 (Censored Poets still has an Internet presence but appears to be idle). Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, from Gypsy Blood Review, Summer, 1993, a print magazine (now defunct). Counting Corn Kernels Under a Hot August Sun, Word Riot, June, 2007. Crossroads from Ascent Aspirations, Feb. 2014, Vol. 18, No. 2. Darwin’s Curse, Love at its Worst, a lot of Ampersands, & the Extinction of the Mastodons, appeared in Fat City Review 2014, an online magazine (now defunct). Dictator In The Birdfeeder, from Projected Letters (Second Issue, 2005), an online magazine (now defunct). "Dogs In Winter." from Red Dancefloor, Vol. 3, Issue 1, 1993, (a print magazine – no longer publishing from Van Nuys, Calif.) p. 27. Duel Between Literary and Number Men, from Why Vandalism? an online magazine now defunct, June 2008. Fotophone, from Glass: A Journal of Poetry (Vol. 1, Issue 2), an online magazine that still has an Internet presence. Funhouse, from Trafalgar Mountain Poetry Irregular, or TMP Irregular, now a defunct literary e-zine that has no presence on the Internet. Good Fences, from Censored Poets LitBlog, posted Friday, January 26, 2007, an online publication that seems idle now but still has an Internet presence. If Jesus was a Pistol Slinging Gunfighter, from Ascent Aspirations, February 2007, an online Canadian literary magazine still publishing and also, an earlier draft of this poem appeared in the print magazine, Clark Street Review, No. 10 in 2000. Insomnia, from Whisper, Issue #8, 1995, a print magazine (published from Rohnert Park, Calif., which is no longer published). It All Starts with Two Degrees from Hell on the Old 49 Highway, from [in parentheses] – their New Modernism 2016 issue (the poem was posted online on Aug. 17, 2016). January Penance, from the Higginsville Reader, Vol. 3, No. 3, Summer 1993 (a monthly print literary digest). John Lennon’s Still Gone, from Ascent Aspirations November 2005, and the Clark Street Review. Just a Rainy Night in Georgia, from Glass: A Journal of Poetry (Vol. 1, Issue 2), an online magazine that still has an Internet presence. Just Friends. Clark Street Review. 2000 #10, p. 8, a print magazine published from San Luis Obispo, Calif., now defunct. (Just Sign This CONCERNED)" appears in [in parentheses] (Summer 2014) an online literary journal that still has an Internet presence. Mass, appears in Centrifugal Eye, Winter, 2008, an online literary e-zine. Maynard’s Red Pen, from Ohio Teachers Write, Fall, 2001, Vol. 7, a print journal of the Ohio Council of Teachers of Language Arts, Youngstown, Ohio, p. 12. Open the Gates, Let’s See Who’s Next, from Ascent Aspirations, November 2005, and the Clark Street Review, a print magazine. Outliving Kerouac, from Ascent Aspirations, February 2007, and the 2007 issue of cakeandthecrocodile.com (an online publication - now defunct). "Painting with the Color Perfect," from Ascent Aspirations Magazine. Passing Through. from Lynx Eye, Summer 1995, Vol 2, No. 3, (a print magazine) published through the Scribblefest Literary Group, Los Angeles, Calif. p. 28. Passing Through, also appeared in Late Knocking, Winter 1998 to 1999 (a print publication from the Hartford Poetry Society, Hartford, Maryland). Politics and the Blind Toad, from White Leaf Press (U.K.) Winter 2005, a literary webzine – now defunct. Public Relations Letter for the Chamber of Commerce of AnyCity, USA: and this girl is grimy gorgeous and counting. Yasse. (an online literary e-zine that is now idle but still has an Internet presence) May/June 2004 (volume four). Public Relations Letter to the Desert’s Darkness, from Ascent Aspirations, Feb. 2014, Vol. 18, No. 2. Railroad Street Blues, The Higginsville Reader, Vol. 5, No. 4, Fall 1995. (print publication). Rain, You Oblong Dancer…, Underground Window, Volume 1, Issue 14 (undergroundwindow.com was an online literary e-zine that no longer has a presence on the Internet). Saint Vitus Loves Gary. The Higginsville Reader. Vol. 5, No. 3 (Print Magazine), Summer 1995. Three Bridges, N.J., p. 6. Secrets of a Guarded Woman, from the Linden Avenue Literary Journal, February 2017, No. 57. Sick’s Sense,