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About the Author: Rp Verlaine
Rp Verlaine lives and writes in New York City.
He has an MFA in creative writing from City College.
He taught in New York Public schools for many years.
No longer teaching, he continues to write and do photography
in New York. He had a volume of poetry- Damaged by Dames
& Drinking published in 2017 and another – Femme Fatales
Movie Starlets & Rockers in 2018.

His poetry has appeared in The Linnet's Wings, Haikuniverse,
Scryptic, Blazevox , Poems' bout Love & Hate anthology,
Smoke Signals,The New Press, Downtown,What Happens-
Next, and Remark.
In short poems and photographs, Rp Verlaine and New York Model
Seany Marie, tell a doomed love story that begins in a bar and is navigated in bedrooms and city streets. Rp Verlaine uses lean economical lines to tell the story: Her detached smile/ was subversive yet aloof enough to leave hints with demure camouflage/ when it found my lips. The two lovers speak in terse sentences , sometimes playful often aloof: So untidy her personal life/ I leave her bed made. As the story plays out, Rp Verlaine's trademark humor is sharp and often present: She tells me she loves her tanning bed second only to me/ it's a good thing she agrees I'm hotter. In the end, the lovers find the journey not without its pleasures but difficult to sustain:
(She)Turns bare back to me/ where there's not enough space/ to write what I feel. Rp Verlaine's Lies from the autobiography vol 1 Seany is a poetry book well worth your time.