November or Movember is men's health awareness month, specifically prostate cancer and other cancers that affect men. Further details can be found here:
www.movember.com/ so grow your mo and show your support.

I have chosen eleven talented male artists from my watch list. Please visit their galleries and show them some
















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Mature Content

Plague
They promised
seven plagues upon your house
and tonight the flies
are home to roost.
I count their tiny wings
rubbing madly
in the room
where your daughter
is not sleeping.
Locusts claimed your orchard
a week before the harvest,
sucked the green
right up
for an angry god
and bore the apples
off to goblin market.
They found boils
upon your mother -
those angry pustules
ladies do not discuss,
holes stitched
in the marriage bed
where your father
does not sleep.
Anthrax has raped your stables,
pillaged the hooves
and left lame stalls
as fallow
as your fields -
no oxen for your yoke.
And the darkness just keeps
eating
everything in its path,
souring the wine
and bleeding out the laundry
left baking in the tub.
But it is your first born
son
you will miss the most -
that simple beaming toddler
folded tightly
in his mother's arms.
He has your brother's smile
and the blight of sweetest
vengeance
crowning curls
where his father's hand
should be.



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