John M. FitzGerald Biography
J.M. FitzGerald is a writer/attorney in Los Angeles. He represents the disabled by day, but at night, represents the darkness. He attended UCLA and the University of West Los Angeles School of Law, where he was editor of the Law Review. His first book, Spring Water, the fictional story of the mental life of a psycho bottling plant shipping clerk who poisons bottles of water and ships them to Los Angeles stores, was a Turning Point Books prize selection in 2005.
Telling Time by the Shadows, a book of poems of love and longing, was released in April,2008.
Unpublished works in progress include Primate, the fictional tale of a sign-language speaking chimp allowed to testify in court, The Zeroth Law, a work of creative literary non-fiction comparing the beliefs of the world’s major religions to history, myth and science, and The Mind, a series of poems about consciousness and thought.
Joe Smith takes a pickle jar and latex gloves
From under the kitchen sink, and sits at the workbench
In the tool shed outside his father’s house.
He dons the gloves, empties poison from six livestock collars
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I would be one of the wanderers,
with heaven watching.
Observe, you reflections, I glance away.
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Joe Smith works at the Spring Water Plant, in Tacoma.
All his life, everyone called him Joe Smith.
Never just Joe.
It makes him feel generic.
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I hardly sleep because of dreams.
They don’t become me, and could be obsessions,
Depending on whether it’s day or night.
Visions seem incompatible as birds and windows.
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