My poem, "Such a Thick Hide" is now published in both the Print and Kindle versions of The Washington Square Review: Summer 2026 Literary Journal!
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This is the link to the print copy...
Odd thing is, my particular poem can be seen in full in the sample pages on their Amazon page!
This journal is also available in Kindle format.
AND DON'T FORGET...
My podcast interview with the journal's editor will be available sometime within the next couple weeks.
It was a lot of fun to make and I think you'll enjoy it!
Once it's uploaded and available, it'll be posted and blasted!
But in the meantime, here's my original poem, "Such a Thick Hide" in its entirety:
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Such a Thick Hide
By Frank Weber
Copyright ©2026
A foot-thick hide with
a brain half-made of ice
so that so little can be felt
but just enough can still be seen
just enough to know
why a man really does
need such a thick hide
and icy frosted thoughts
it’s the only formula left that works
for such a man to survive
in these willfully artificial days
in the hell so willfully brought about
by those who would command
and those that fear and those that follow
still those commands can dig
only so deep inside a man
only so deep but can never sway
that man in any way
maybe in a child’s mind but
never in that man
who has been forced to wear
such thick hides wrapped around
such an icy glacial mind
not in a man in any way
maybe in a child’s mind but
never in that man
who has been forced to choose
his sanity over the
quivering hollow and artificial
corridors of the willful hell
that has been forced upon him.
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