The Temperatures of Their Emotions…by Robert M. Katzman
by Robert M. Katzman © December 18, 2019
(Inspired by Nancy Alexander)
Cool surfaces
Glazed skin
Hooded eyes
Tentative Touch
*
Words flow slowly
Like ancient melting ice
Fingers hesitate in mid-air
Then politely intertwine
*
A door is opened
A chair is offered
Her eyes glance upward
Self-conscious small smiles
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Old customs/New Lady
Perhaps my gesture offends
Maybe two lives lived
In very different planes
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Will two uncertain genders crash
Into fierce porcelain politics?
Victorian courtesies de-railed by
Internet concepts of Femininity?
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Late in life flirtatious
Breaths held in suspense
Too late to learn new ways?
Then…oh, gosh!…she squeezed my hand
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Publishing News!
Bob Katzman’s two new true Chicago books are now for sale, from him!
Vol. One: A Savage Heart and Vol. Two: Fighting Words
Gritty, violent, friendship, classic American entrepreneurship love, death, heartbreak and the real dirt about surviving in a completely corrupt major city under the Chicago Machine. More history and about one man’s life than a person may imagine.
Please visit my new website: https://www.dontgoquietlypress.com
If a person doesn’t want to use PayPaI, I also have a PO Box & I ship anywhere in America.
Send me a money order with your return and contact info.
I will get your books to you within ten days.
Here’s complete information on how to buy my books:
Vol 1: A Savage Heart and Vol. 2: Fighting Words
My books weigh almost 2 pounds each, with about 525 pages each and there are a total together of 79 stories and story/poems.
Robert M. Katzman
Don’t Go Quietly Press
PO Box 44287
Racine, Wis. 53404-9998 (262)752-3333, 8AM–7PM
Books cost $29.95 each, plus shipping
For: (1)$3.95; (2)$5.95; (3)$7.95; (4)$8.95 (5)$9.95;(6) $10.95
(7) $11.95; (8) $12.95; (9)$13.95 (10)$15.95 (15)$19.95
I am also for hire if anyone wants me to read my work and answer questions in the Chicago/Milwaukee area. Schools should call me for quantity discounts for 30 or more books. Also: businesses, bookstores, private organizations or churches and so on.
My Fighting Words Publishing Co. four original books, published between 2004 and 2007 are now out-of-print. I still have some left and will periodically offer them for sale on my new website.