The Dinner Jacket Poems: Featuring the Short Story, 'Better Now, Better Now Than Dead'

THE DINNER JACKET POEMS the CHANTILCLEER POET JEFF WAYNE-PATRICK RUSSELL Jeff Wayne-Patrick Russell aka the Chantilcleer poet starts his Dinner Jacket Poems with a boyhood visit to his grandmother’s apartment in Glendale, CA where he’s fascinated by the Knockittttty, knock knocks of woodpeckers pecking on telephone poles in her neighborhood. With “yells of silence” he takes us on a quest to the “streets of Gold” where he “dreams of a Coliseum in Eternity.” The pilgrim does not travel alone....