issue 1: New Beginnings
Detour
Roméo Desmarais III
Another cup of coffee is
poured
essential
futile
fruitless
The well-worn path becomes
tedious
safe
seeing
Living is more than just
speaking
back
STEAL a Big BUS
breathing
back
b a c k
and bring yourself
Roméo Desmarais III aKa RoMeO-HoMeO ô£ tHę MåRtïÃñS >{:) (t/he/y t/he/m) is pr(l)oudly a Muskrat Métis du Grand Lac Ste-Claire, IndigiQueer/2Spirit poet, artist, and singer-songwriter. His poems live on Brickyard Spoken Word (YouTube), in Pink Disco Magazine, and other cool places. Their folk song, “John McCauldron”, about an unsheltered man, garnered attention from CBC-Radio. Romeo has produced two multimedia textual art exhibits. From Windsor, ON, t/he/y now live(s)/thrive(s) in London, ON’s arts scene, detest(s) Capitalism and Catholicism, but adores his bf, backgammon, their cats, caffeine, conversation, alliteration, &... run-on-sentences.