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Craig Pugh Brings You the Following Poems and Tales For Your Reading Pleasure

A Pocketful of Poems
Like coffee and cats? How about love in all its messy glory? Plenty of that in these poems, plus poems about poems and the frustration of writing. Notable for their emotional range, mirth and intensity.

Ganja Tales - 2nd Ed.
These original old Omaha stories published in 2000 remain the only 420 literary short-story fiction you can find anywhere. Three new stories were added for this 2nd edition.

Poems for Pickin'
A Grandma Moses-type cover and cover poem harken to the idyllic days on the prairie circa 1890, then transition to poems on Ukraine, Putin, Maga, and January 6. These poems are relevant and contemporary, and range from tragic to absurd and comedic to cosmic.
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Don’t you think AI art really helps illustrate my poetry? Check out this excerpt from 'I Got A Deal For You.' It's in my first volume 'A Pocketful of Poems'.
We both know life’s a game of chance with winners and losers, and we’re a pair of dice thrown by drunken gods playing the odds.
We hit the table hoping for snake eyes and bust out when the toss turns otherwise. We’re survivors, then, you and I who try and keep our faces to the sun. Clutching faith
and what’s left of broken hearts and loves we hold on, praying for moments of grace.

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