Glenn Ingersoll
INSTEAD

found in the database of the UC Berkeley library

Instead of violence
Instead of the trees
Instead of the brier
Instead of regulation
Instead of music
Instead of jail
Instead of flowers
Instead of education
Instead of court
Instead of an animal
Instead of a poem
Instead of a letter
Instead of a journal
Instead of a gift
Instead of a cancelled debate
Instead of a book by a man too busy to write one


Glenn Ingersoll author photoGlenn Ingersoll works for the public library in Berkeley, California where he hosts Clearly Meant, a reading and interview series. He has two chapbooks, City Walks (broken boulder) and Fact (Avantacular). He keeps two blogs, LoveSettlement and Dare I Read. Recent work has appeared in The Disappointed Housewife, Zombie Logic, Neologism, and Poetry East.

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