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Showtime at the Ministry of Lost Causes
Author: Cheryl Dumesnil
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The poems in Showtime at the Ministry of Lost Causes are survival songs, the tunes you whistle while walking through the Valley of Shadows, to keep your fears at bay and your spirit awake. The shadows here are manycancer, poverty, a lost love, famine, suicide, war, an ever-encroaching existential angst. But so are the saving gracesa drag queen waitress whose painted-on eyebrows arched like a bridge toward starlight, strawberries grown fat around dimpled gold seeds, Pink Floyds On the Turning Away sent through my car radio like the ghost voice of a beloved long dead, black phoebes rattling winter thistles, swollen throats percussing this is this is this is . . . Showtime at the Ministry of Lost Causes reminds us that where there is shadow there must, necessarily, also be light. **
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The poems in Showtime at the Ministry of Lost Causes are survival songs, the tunes you whistle while walking through the Valley of Shadows, to keep your fears at bay and your spirit awake. The shadows here are manycancer, poverty, a lost love, famine, suicide, war, an ever-encroaching existential angst. But so are the saving gracesa drag queen waitress whose painted-on eyebrows arched like a bridge toward starlight, strawberries grown fat around dimpled gold seeds, Pink Floyds On the Turning Away sent through my car radio like the ghost voice of a beloved long dead, black phoebes rattling winter thistles, swollen throats percussing this is this is this is . . . Showtime at the Ministry of Lost Causes reminds us that where there is shadow there must, necessarily, also be light. **
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