{"id":3735,"date":"2023-11-27T20:41:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T00:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/?page_id=3735"},"modified":"2023-11-27T20:41:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T00:41:29","slug":"hypocrisy-of-the-lunch-hour","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/poetry-archive\/hypocrisy-of-the-lunch-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypocrisy of the Lunch Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hypocrisy of the Lunch Hour<\/span><\/h2>\n

James B. Nicola<\/p>\n

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My lunchbox has
\na yellow face
\nwith a thin blue painted smile.<\/p>\n

Though the blue is true
\nwhen I luncheon by you
\nthe yellow is off a mile.<\/p>\n

Had I another that was red
\nI would choose
\nit to use
\ninstead.<\/p>\n

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\"A<\/p>\n

James B. Nicola<\/strong>\u2019s poems have appeared in the <\/span>Antioch, Southwest,<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Atlanta Reviews; Rattle; <\/span><\/i>and <\/span>Barrow Street<\/span><\/i>. His full-length collections (2014-2023) are <\/span>Manhattan Plaza<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Stage to Page<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Wind in the Cave<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Out of Nothing: Poems of Art and Artists<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Quickening: Poems from Before and Beyond<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Fires of Heaven: Poems of Faith and Sense,<\/span><\/i> Turns & Twists,<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Natural Tendencies<\/span><\/i> (just out). His nonfiction book <\/span>Playing the Audience<\/span><\/i> won a <\/span>Choice<\/span><\/i> magazine award. He has received a Dana Literary Award, two <\/span>Willow Review<\/span><\/i> awards, <\/span>Storyteller’s<\/span><\/i> People’s Choice magazine award, one Best of Net, one Rhysling, and ten Pushcart nominations\u2014for which he feels both stunned and grateful. A graduate of Yale, he hosts the Hell’s Kitchen International Writers’ Round Table at his library branch in Manhattan: walk-ins are always welcome.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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