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She was an accident
waiting to happen, came the whispers.
Not the kind of woman you’d want
to be seen out with, muttered one Mack to another.
I always knew she’d wind up like this,
cried a woman, mirroring her own fears
to the crowd at large.
Yet it was the little boy
who noticed her shoes, fixated
on how beautiful they were,
how untouched,
and he would shock the leering mob
when he crossed the line,
tenderly removed one shoe,
then the other, and lay
his small, weeping face at her feet.
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About John Biscello

Originally from Brooklyn, NY, writer, poet, performer, and playwright, John Biscello, has lived in the high-desert grunge-wonderland of Taos, New Mexico since 2001. He is the author of four novels, Broken Land, a Brooklyn Tale, Raking the Dust, Nocturne Variations, and No Man’s Brooklyn; a collection of stories, Freeze Tag, two poetry collections, Arclight and Moonglow on Mercy Street; and a fable, The Jackdaw and the Doll, illustrated by Izumi Yokoyama. He also adapted classic fables, which were paired with the vintage illustrations of artist, Paul Bransom, for the collection: Once Upon a Time, Classic Fables Reimagined. His produced, full-length plays include: LOBSTERS ON ICE, ADAGIO FOR STRAYS, THE BEST MEDICINE, ZEITGEIST, U.S.A., and WEREWOLVES DON’T WALTZ.
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