Ed Taylor

Ed Taylor is a RealPoetik contributor whose work has also appeared online at

5_Trope, and in print journals including Exquisite Corpse, Fiction

International, Another Chicago Magazine, and elsewhere. He's executive

director of just buffalo literary center in Buffalo, NY. Ed can be

reached at eftjr@aol.com.

IPO MEMO

(O'Hare Airport/business class)

A man slaps a battery in his PDA

like a Crip with a Glock & a clip on Fox -

he is fixing his game face for trading,

shares, sports & war in the air -

the cabin crackles, bristles with angles & edges

& barbed wires, his VC funds

a pure juice for the soldier high

over Chi -

then a vee of geese drifts the other way -

a drawn-down shade to erase the arrow

& the man gets down to business, making

a killing.

Ed Taylor