Note: This post was transferred over from a now defunct Black Unicorn Press site Originally Published in 2015.
a poetry chapbook by benjamin c roy cory garrett
“The Janky, like all ghosts, is real in the stories we tell of it.”
People write poems about places because they feel like those places create them as people. The Janky was the opposite. A place that composed its own poems out of the people that made it the Janky. The creepy, dilapidated, funeral-home-turned-punk-house of Kirksville, MO was torn down in 2014, but the poetry it created in the lives of its inhabitants is still being written.
Janky Daze is my contribution to that endeavor. It is a collection of hand-written poetry and drawings of things that may never have quite happened like I remembered and never will again. Below are a couple of snap shots of the work found inside.
