paperback.
poems and art by mike mahoney, 2018-2020.
142pgs.

it's the long dark night of the soul.  it can take any shape or event. 
look any way or be any thing to any one.  sometimes it really is just one long dark night.  other times it can last for years.  sometimes you don't even know you're in it, but somehow you also realize the stakes are beyond high: the stakes are yourself . . . . this book of poems comes from my few-year swoop down into that long dark night . . . . that mute, dark rot of the human heart.  it documents my no-time in the belly of the whale.

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All We Need Is A Great Ending includes poems from two other handmade books: Archetype Degenerate and The Night I Drank The Sky, plus two whole other sections of previously unpublished work, including more degenerate poems from 2019 and a short suite of poems writ on return from the mid-forest cabin trip documented in The Night I Drank The Sky.