About ten years ago, when I was working on “Scratching for Something,” I was fascinated with the back page classified ad section of The New York Press. At that time, the back page classifieds hosted all kinds of human appeal. Guileless personal ads, physics, ads thanking St. Jude, pornography and prostitution, cures for various physical and mental health problems. It seemed like the grittiest portrait of humanity at its most vulnerable. I felt like the back page classifieds had something in common with the modern fables I was writing. As an experiment, I published some them on The New York Press back page. Click on the links below to see them.
I published the prose poems/fables anonymously. One of my readers published this message on the back page:
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