Two
Towns Over by
poet Darren Demaree includes 56 poems,
mostly short, but all powerfully aimed at the drug addiction crisis in Ohio and
other states. The poems are specific to Ohio; included are several odes to
different townships and poems named by towns.
Short
poems. Quick reads (you might think; quick and haunting). Devastating images
and metaphors.
Opiod
addiction is not the first drug crisis America has faced; that mantle belongs
to heroin, another opiod, developed in the some of the same laboratories as
aspirin (and by the same manufacturer).
To
continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak
Poetry.
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