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Triggered by the events of 09/11/2001, John Fischer began writing poetry, essays, short stories and an autobiographical novel.

"Love Condition"

Published by Art Music
Interface Studio
©John Fischer 2010
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“Love Condition” is a new collection of poems released in 2010 by the celebrated artist, musician and writer John Fischer. The eclectic collection’s inspirations are drawn from introspection, survivor guilt from WWII and warm often humorous human interaction.

The five groups reveal John Fischer’s broad interests. META is about zones of consciousness. SURVIVOR GUILT traces responses to childhood experiences. LOVE CONDITION explores how people accept one-another. The poems in FUN are light hearted observations and commentaries. REFLECTION brings closure with three poems that look inward for different zones.

34 Poems - 60 pages

MAYBE

Maybe I’m writing a book.

Redactions
Regurgitations
Refractory ideas.

A book? Maybe,
With poems and stories,
And explanations.

A group of words
No particular order.

I am a Painter, a Pianist
A person with a faulty brain,
Ten strong fingers, a good prick,
A memory, a heart,
A fearful grateful spirit
Looking for the same.

I am writing a book
in order to breathe deeply in one shot
the rarified air of my unknowable.

If only for a little while.

LITTLE BOY PLOY

Little one inside, French speaking boy
Still waiting to be found, what a ploy.

Playing special games, safe and sound
Fantasy and flights of fancy,
|Running round and round.

Little boy inside did you see the towers?
Don’t they look just like the Belgian houses
That in 1940 were destroyed.

Broken buildings with holes.
The towers same as those.

Are you terrified by this convergence?
By the suddenness of this occurrence?

Events in Belgium of 1940
Repeated here in New York City,
What a pity!

When first I saw the towers hit I thought: They’ll fix it.
Right? They’ll fix it? That gaping mouth shaped hole.
The building is still standing. They’ll fix it!

I see the bodies floating down.
The clouds of smoke
The buildings floating down.

What could happen next to stop my play,
What else could happen to force my move away?

It was supposed to be safe here in America
Powerful invincible, welcoming America
Proud to be a new American.

How could this ever have happened?
Who will fix it?
Where is it safe?

"What's Better"

Published by Art Music
Interface Studio
©John Fischer 2007
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With this collection of poems John Fischer is taking another step outside the safety of the computer screen.

As in the other art forms he has pursued, John Fischer’s poems exude spirit and humor, some sharp observations tinted with no small amount of courage and originality.

21 Poems, 41 pages

I LOVE YOU

Trouble with being in love is
You’re not yourself anymore.

Somehow nature has transformed
An ordinary (or extraordinary) person
Into a powerful presence whose smallest word
Change of expression or gesture
Is read with panic and pleasure.

You think of that person constantly.
You don’t care who knows it.
You share them
With your friends,
You talk to them
When you’re alone,
You float around,
You’re mental.

Then one day, in two or three months,
You wake up to where you’ve been!
Its kind of brutal because
There’s this person you hardly recognize saying
“I Love You”

WHAT’S BETTER?

Do you really think that’s better?
She asked in her letter.
Do you really think that’s better
Than what we had together?

You’re living all alone
Close to the bone
Heating leftovers in the ‘wave
As a way to save.

No. No. I think that THIS is better:

Laughing and loving
No restraints
Movies and restaurants
No complaints
Taking chances
One night stances
Playing hard
Business card
Buying clothes
Broadway shows
Holding hands
Jazz bands
Bikes in the park
Playing harder after dark
No goodbyes before bed
Never playing hard to get
And never to be wed.

What do you think is better?
She asked in her letter.