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      March 2, 2017Velcro® Is a Registered TrademarkJack Foss

      I have shoes that I wear for biking
      After lacing them up I wrap
      them even tighter with a Velcro®
      fastener I pull across my instep
      After I ride I carry my bike
      back upstairs to my apartment
      and sit down, exhausted
      I dread taking my shoes off
      because when I open
      the Velcro® fastenings I feel
      the fasteners’ pain at being
      ripped apart
      It may not be true, but I think
      a bit of the fuzzy (or female)
      side of the fastener dies
      at each unfastening
      There is no way I know of
      to ease the rupture of this union

      from #17 - Summer 2002

      Jack Foss

      “I began writing poetry as a child because my mother seemed so proud of a dead brother (an uncle I had never seen) who had been able to rhyme words. If there’s a heaven, what I’d like to do when I get there is apply to become an adopted brother of Emily Dickinson—that is, if she’ll have me.”

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