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Double Trouble Vol II: Deviate the Levitate
Double Trouble Vol II: Deviate the Levitate
Double Trouble Vol II: Deviate the Levitate
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This collection of poems is the second collection in the DOUBLE TROUBLE series-a new kind of experimental, off-kilter, off-key but very in tune poetry. It will stretch your imagination past the point of breaking and then take it a couple of miles further. It's in your face, slap your mind alive, quick-take happenings of everyda

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Release dateOct 18, 2021
ISBN9781774031667
Double Trouble Vol II: Deviate the Levitate
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Matthew Jose

Matthew Jose is a poet and social media personality who is spreading his love for the underground grit of life with a blend of the serious commentary and the humor we all need to stay balanced in an unbalanced world

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    Double Trouble Vol II - Matthew Jose

    Double Trouble Vol II

    Double Trouble Vol II

    Double Trouble Vol II

    Deviate the Levitate

    Matthew Jose

    Candice James

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    Silver Bow Publishing

    Contents

    1 Opening Quote

    2 Title

    3 Copyright and Dedication

    4 Foreword

    5 Contents

    6 Clawfoot Tub and the Bearded Barbarian

    7 Luvven It

    8 A Peculiar Game of Chess

    9 Carson McCullers (and the Sonnie Boy enigma)

    10 The Vibe

    11 Delicious - Adocious

    12 Ashes and the Interview

    13 The Answer to All That

    14 Essence of Al Purdy

    15 From Poetry to Zen and Back

    16 Who is Grady Lewis Anyway?

    17 Disney Out-Takes

    18 To Sup of the Universal Language

    19 Innocent Bystanders

    20 Innocent Bystanders Never Get an Even Break

    21 Do You Know the Type?

    22 Look and See

    23 Realization Departed

    24 Key to the Secret

    25 In Between the Yawning and the Yawning

    26 The Finest of Lines

    27 Deviate the Levitate

    28 Don’t. Just Don’t

    29 Extraordinary? Perhaps, Probably

    30 Pardon Me Excuse Me Allow Me

    31 Human Supposition

    32 Old Irish Me and My Kazoo

    33 The Universe Will

    34 What Happens is This

    35 On Becoming Ricky Nelson

    36 Degrees

    37 Him Not Hem

    38 A – maze – ing

    39 The Search Never Ends

    40 Random Moon Boy

    41 Boondoggle Boggle in the Boondocks

    42 Finicky Widget

    43 One Moment to Another

    44 Waiting

    45 Fruit of the Fodder

    46 Signals

    47 Psychosomatic Fallacies

    48 Author Profile

    49 Copyright Page

    1

    Opening Quote

    "I ask her why she is in this bar having a drink with me.

    She says she’s always been in this bar drinking with me.

    (excerpt from poem Carson McCullers)

    Other Collabs

    by Matthew Jose and Candice James

    Double Trouble Volume I - poems from the edge

    __________________________________

    2

    Title

        Double Trouble

        Vol. II

        by

        Matthew Jose

        &

        Candice James

    Silver Bow Publishing

    720 Sixth Street, Unit # 5

    New Westminster, BC

    CANADA

    3

    Copyright and Dedication

    Title:  Double Trouble VoI. II deviate the levitate

    Authors:  Matthew Jose and Candice James

    Publisher: Silver Bow Publishing

    Cover Art/Design: Of One Blood They Enter painting by Candice James:

    Layout and editing: Candice James

    All rights reserved including the right to reproduce or translate this book or any portions thereof, in any form without the permission of the publisher. Except for the use of short passages for review purposes, no part of this book may be reproduced, in part or in whole, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronically or mechanically, including photocopying, recording, or any information or storage retrieval system without prior permission in writing from the publisher or a license from the Canadian Copyright Collective Agency (Access Copyright). Copyright to all individual poems remains with the author.

    © Silver Bow Publishing 2021

    97817740301650Print

    97817740301667 epub

    Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

    Title: Double trouble. Vol. II : deviate the levitate / by Matthew Jose & Candice James.

    Other titles: Deviate the levitate

    Names: Jose, Matthew, 1976- author. | James, Candice, 1948- author.

    Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20210169559 | Canadiana (ebook) 20210169575 | ISBN 9781774031650

       (softcover) | ISBN 9781774031667 (Kindle)

    Classification: LCC PS3610.O75 D69 2021 | DDC 811/.6—dc23

    DEDICATED TO

    To all the poets who persevere

    and the eclectic audience

    that appreciates their lore


    4

    Foreword

    FOREWORD

    This is an experiment in semi-experimental poetry which tells a myriad of inane short stories and explores the many self-imposed questions we ask of ourself that are now offered bare-assed to the universal population that may care to or dare to look.

    5

    Contents

    Contents

    Clawfoot Tub and the Bearded Barbarian …

    Luvven It …

    A Peculiar Tale of Chess ( aka Dedeeron and Squatty ) …

    Carson McCullers ( aka the Sonnie Boy enigma ) …

    The Vibe …

    Delicious Adocious …

    Ashes and the Interview …

    The Answer to All That …

    Essence of Al Purdy …

    From Poetry to Zen and Back …

    Who Is Grady Lewis Anyway? …

    Disney Out-Takes …

    To Sup of the Universal Language …

    Innocent Bystanders …

    Do You Know the Type? …

    Look and See …

    Realization Departed …

    Key to the Secret .

    In Between the Yawning and the Yawning …

    The Finest if Lines …

    Deviate the Levitate …

    Don’t Just Don’t …

    Extraordinary, Perhaps, Probably …

    Pardon Me, Excuse Me, Allow Me …

    Human Supposition …

    But Not For Me …

    Old Irish, Me and My Kazoo …

    The Universe Will …

    What Happens is This …

    On Becoming Ricky Nelson …

    Degrees …

    Him Not Hem …

    A – maze – ing …

    The Search Never Ends …

    Random Moon Boy …

    Boondoggle Boggle in the Boondocks …

    Psychosomatic Fallacies …

    Finicky Wicket …

    One Moment to Another …

    Waiting …

    Fruit of the Fodder …

    Signals …

    6

    Clawfoot Tub and the Bearded Barbarian

    Clawfoot Tub and the Bearded Barbarian

    A joke is never as good when it has to be explained

    but try telling that to a bearded barbarian

    with fierce eyes who thinks he’s a real cut up.

    I better not tell him he’s a fake paper cut-out doll

    and a wanna-be dinner winner.

    The two of us were the last two

    waiting to take the stage at an open mic

    and as I was about to walk out and wow the crowd

    he tapped me on the shoulder, a tad roughly too,

    and asked if I minded if he went on before me.

    I wasn’t sure how I felt, as a poet,

    if I was to have to follow a comedian to the stage

    but I also wasn’t sure how I felt about a lot of things

    so I turned around and said to him,

    "Sure funny man, have at

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