[HANASHIR:6039] I've published a new book.

[Rick Lupert <Rick...>]

Hello everyone,

Announcing the publication of my new book:

"Feeding Holy Cats" on Cassowary Press.
40 pages, chapbook, saddle stitched, full color cover

It's all poems I wrote on a trip to Israel during winter break this 
past year and includes a glossary of terms defined in a tongue in 
cheek style consistent with my particular brand of observational 
humor which you'll find in abundance in the poems as well. (how 
boorishly egotistical of me to say)

Coinciding with this publication is the release of an expanded 
edition of my previously out of print book "I'm a Jew, Are You." 
It's a redesigned edition with several new poems in it all loosely 
revolving around the theme of being a Jew.  This new edition is also 
on Cassowary Press.

        ** see free sample poems below **
             (it's the American way)


Ordering info:
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You can order either of these titles securely with credit card 
directly from my site at http://PoetrySuperHighway.com/.

or

You can mail order them directly from me by sending $5.00 + $1.00 per 
book for shipping and intensely increasing envelope costs.

        send to: Rick Lupert 5336 Kester Ave, # 103, Sherman Oaks, CA 91411

or pick them up from me at a reading.  Click on "Other Cool Rick 
Stuff" from my website for a listing of upcoming readings.


More info:
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Check out the new "Feeding Holy Cats" and "I'm a Jew, Are You) 
sections of my website (http://PoetrySuperHighway.com/) which include 
the newly designed cover images, sample poems, and in the case of 
"Feeding Holy Cats" cool pictures from the Holy Land.


Free Sample Poems:
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        HAGOSHRIM

        New Years on the Kibbutz
        where they invented the Epilady
        I have the smoothest legs of the millennium


                ONE HUMP OR TWO

                We pass by the Camel Comedy Club
                in the old city of Jaffa
                Take my humps please


        MEDICAL ADVICE FROM THE RELIGIOUS LADY

        They should play harps
        instead of using Prozac
        says the woman at the Biblical Harp Store
        I suppose at the Prozac store
        they don't speak too highly of Biblical Harps either


                TALKING WITH ARABS

                Walking through Arab village
                Family invites us in for Orange Soda
                mixed nuts and conversation
                We only have twenty minutes
                which is enough
                to talk about football
                North Carolina
                and how they feel like second class citizens
                They have beautiful couches
                and children
                more of both on the way
                peace now
                peace now


        FLYING HOME FROM TEL AVIV

        I am in the airport
        I am on the plane

        I am in the air
        I am drinking water

        Water leaks from plane ceiling
        Doesn't seem right

        I have four shequels in my pocket
        I am thirty one thousand feet and climbing

        It is a different time everywhere
        Girl next to me laughs like a Canadian
        living in the Dakotas

        I am duty free
        I am salute the other passengers

        I am still climbing
        I am eighteen hours away

        I am gone from Holy Land
        I am hands smell like banana

        I am leave guitar on Tarmac
        I am in flight movie

        I am eat
        I am sleep

        I am fly, fly, fly


Thanks for supporting independent artists.


Rick
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