2 by Harley Elliot (Laurie Hoag, Feed Reader)

One requires no proof of purchase, ownership, or identity.

And one makes you walk up the ditch and put your ear against a telephone pole.

“Why You Should Read This Poem” and “What to Do Around Here” are in Harley Elliot’s forthcoming book Fugitive Histories (Woodley Press, the future!)  Today’s reader, Laurie Hoag, writes:  Here is a link to Harley Elliot [including the text of the two poems above]. I don’t know why I hadn’t thought of him earlier. He lives close by in Salina, KS. I know him mostly because of his work at the Salina Art Center. He was formerly a director, but is retired now. I was able to get verbal permission from him.

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