The Scars Are Complimentary

A poetry chapbook.

This debut poetry chapbook from John Edward Lawson features thirty poems of the bizarre, ranging from horror to surreal to experimental. Stark pen and ink drawings accompany the poems.

“...a great introduction to the range of Lawson’s playful, dark, and challenging imagination. The book captures his voice in a can, and when you read the work, it pops out like one of those springy snakes hiding in the nutjar.” — Michael A. Arnzen, author Play Dead & 100 Jolts

Poetry:

• Two Splitting Stomachs
• Rushmore Assassins
• Raw Dog Screaming
• Under the Weather
• Body Found Under Pier, Details on Page A-17
• Crawl
• eight senryu/haiku
• Blew It
• Tabacon
• Dark Nature
• Oblong Agony
• 1996 Was a Bad Year
• The Morality of Immortality
• How to "Handle" Phallic References
• Constellation Hope
• Performance Etiquette
• Motivational Balm
• Corporate Calendar (Sales!)
• In the Jowlitorium
• Mondo Verde
• That Last Autumn Spent Down a Hole
• Breathless
• one senryu