Poetry — May 7, 2013 12:37 — 2 Comments

Political Reporting – Nick Ravo

I was drunk on television once; no one noticed except a pumpkin hair-do, blonde, cute, primly seated next to me on a meet-the-media set. She smiled and said I looked relaxed. We fired at a governor running for senator who had married a president’s daughter. He lost because he received a massage by a former Miss Virginia with a pumpkin hair-do, blonde, cute, at the Pierre Hotel in New York. The winner was a famous football coach’s son, but he later blew his chances for reelection by calling blacks ‘ca-cas’. By then, the former Miss Virginia had posed for Playboy. I never appeared on television again.

Bio:

Nick Ravo is a poet in Edmonds, WA. He is also a former reporter for The New York Times and a speechwriter on Wall Street.

2 Comments

  1. Rob says:

    Tasty even as leftovers.

  2. Is this Monarch Review email to the nick Ravo formerly of the NY Times or to someone else? Hello if the NY Times former reporter. Hope all is well in WA and congratulations on your poetic work and aspirations!

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Bioluminescent eye
That sees by the shine
Of its own light. Lies

Blind me. I am the seventh human sense
And my stepchild,
Consequence;

Scientists can't find me.

Januswise I make us men;
Glamour
Was my image then—

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The awful fall up off all fours
From the forest
To the hours…

Tick, Tock: Divine me.

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