Are You Sure Kerouac Done it This Way?

Jason Ryberg is currently listening to an old transistor radioplay nothing but sad songs in a room that rents for $20 / hour in a motel (owned by the sheriffs brother-in-law they say) outby the highway on just another hot and nasty Saturday night just outside of just another Damned If I Know USA. Everynow and then a truck or car or bus speeds by. Every now andthen a star falls. Most of the time theres never any trouble.John Dorsey lived for several years in Toledo Ohio. He is the author of several collections of poetry including Teaching the Dead to Sing: The Outlaws Prayer (Rose of Sharon Press 2006) Sodomy is a City in New Jersey (American Mettle Books 2010) Tombstone Factory (Epic Rites Press 2013) Appalachian Frankenstein (GTK Press 2015) Being the Fire (Tangerine Press 2016) and Shoot the Messenger (Red Flag Poetry 2017) Your Daughters Country (Blue Horse Press 2019) and Which Way to the River: Selected Poems 2016-2020 (OAC Books 2020). His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize Best of the Net and the Stanley Hanks Memorial Poetry Prize. He was the winner of the 2019 Terri Award given out at the Poetry Rendezvous. He may be reached at archerevans@yahoo.com.Victor Clevenger spends his days in a Madhouse and his nightswriting. Selected pieces of his work have appeared in printmagazines and journals around the world; it has also beennominated for the Best of the Net Anthology and the Pushcart Prize.He is the author of several collections of poetry including Sandpaper Lovin(Crisis Chronicles Press 2017) A Finger in the Hornets Nest (Red Flag Poetry 2018) Corned Beef Hash By Candlelight (Luchador Press 2019) A Wildflower In Blood(Roaring Junior Press 2020) and Mourning Eyes (Between Shadows Press 2021). Together with American poet John Dorsey they run River Dog.He can be reached at: crownofcrows@yahoo.com