ISBN 1-59201-006-7
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Publication January, 2003
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Dead White Poet
Brett Hursey

Copyright 2002
All Rights Reserved

Aquaman

for Jeff Stewart


She's started asking
me to save the day--

like fixing the leak
beneath her kitchen sink--

the intermittent drip
that soaks through the dishwasher
soapbox and spoils
her shelf-paper.

It's a test
I'm supposed to pass--

the handyman's SAT--
simple monkeywrenchery
all "men around the house"
are supposed to know how to do,

but my mind isn't made
for metalwork--
PVC and copper pipe
become cross-threaded
Kryptonite
to me--

her insidious, other-worldly
plumbing

slowly saps away my super-
manly powers

until I'm as useless
as Aquaman--

the Superfriend I always laughed
at on Saturday morning--

whose super powers
were only superfluous--
like breathing underwater
and talking to fish.

So it's no surprise
after an hour of my futile
snorkeling under her sink,
that Wonder Woman
finally finds some other use
for my inadequate Aquamanly
abilities -

leaving me to format
her hard drive
while muttering lame excuses
to the tuna fish in my sandwich.

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Dead White Poet by Brett Hursey
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Author's Bio

        Brett Hursey has published poetry in over eighty journals across the United States and Canada, two chapbooks and a full-length collection entitled Some Assembly Required .
        His work has won an Academy of American Poets Prize, three national AWP Journal Awards, multiple IBPC prizes, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He received his BA in Writing from East Carolina University, MA in Creative Writing from The University of New Brunswick (Canada), and PhD in Creative Writing and Contemporary Literature from Oklahoma State University.
        Currently, he teaches English at East Carolina University.