Chris Butters

Chris Butters has been published in Paterson Literary Review, Chiron Review, Blue Collar Review, Home Planet News Online and dispatchespoetrywars.com. He is the previous coproducer of WBAI-FM's weekly Arts Express radio show in New York City. He recommends the Police Reform Organizing Project.

"The Comedian" and "Faneuil Hall"

it makes me want to dance
and sing!
the way the comedian
tells the joke!
and everyone laughs and laughs

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1984, I think:
heroin was king,
crack was coming in.
A strange word called AIDS.
Soviet Union downfall hadn’t happened yet.

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Door Number One

no, to tell you the truth
I am innocent but
I am pleading guilty
because I need to get out
for my job before next Thursday

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