IN A NOIR PLACE by Paul Strohm

In a noir place
straight white noir
no neo-noir
diminished fifth noir
denoted derivative noir
noirish
struts her peignoir
elevated male noir
noir in the big house
juju noir
noir getaway sticks
gat noir
noir mitts
rouge-et-noir
noir fini

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Paul Strohm is a freelance writer working in Houston, Texas. His poems have appeared in the Berkeley Poets Cooperative, Green's Magazine, Deep Water Quarterly and other literary journals. He was honestly fired from the Angleton Times newspaper for his piece which advocated changing the national pastime from baseball to nose picking while driving. He stills does.