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    Hot Metal Tonic
    Hot Metal Tonic
    Hot Metal Tonic
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    Hot Metal Tonic

    By Ron Gavalik

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    Hot Metal Tonic is the molten form of love and hatred, personal struggle, and whiskey-laced madness. This collection of over 180 poems before you represents a significant contribution to the art form of free verse MicroPoetry, a medium born of our social media culture. As cigar smoke plumes across his office ceiling in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Gavalik paints a sometimes sad, sometimes funny, and consistently thoughtful portrait of this modern life. Divided into chapters on dating and relationships, career, friends and enemies, family, and spirituality, every single poem is mainlined into the reader’s emotional center in 140 characters or less.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGrit City Publications
    Release dateAug 22, 2014
    ISBN9781311138248
    Hot Metal Tonic
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    Ron Gavalik

    Ron’s extensive background and education in fiction and nonfiction writing led him to innovate the revolutionary medium of Emotobooks. Grit City is GCP’s maiden EmotoSerial. When not writing, he runs GCP for others to find publishing success and uses his free time to read fantastic stories or dole out writing advice. When weather permits, you can find Ron biking, hiking, of fishing in the outdoors of Southwestern Pennsylvania.

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      Hot Metal Tonic - Ron Gavalik

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      Hot Metal Tonic

      Ron Gavalik

      Published by Grit City Publications at Smashwords

      Copyright 2014 Ron Gavalik, Grit City Publications

      Proofreading and Editing: Rebecca Burruss

      Cover and Book Design: GCP Contributors

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be resold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of the creative team.

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      Contents

      Women and Me

      Greed and Servitude

      Political Strife

      Friends and Enemies

      Blood is Thicker than Rage

      Life or Death Everlasting

      Hot Metal Tonic is the molten form of love and hatred, personal struggle, and whiskey-laced madness. This collection of over 180 poems before you represents a significant contribution to the art form of free verse MicroPoetry, a medium born of our social media culture.

      The book pays homage to the tens of thousands of steel workers and ancillary tradesmen who once labored in or around the mills that bordered Pittsburgh’s three rivers. These blue-collared ancestors of years long past shaped the way I write, the way I pray, and the very way

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