About the Author Spin Cycles and Big Cars is from a collection of poems title Voyeur by Rich Murphy on the subject of love in the wasteland, poems exploring love: lust, romance, and compassion. His Poems have appeared in such journals as Rolling Stone, Poetry Magazine, Grand Street, New Letters, Confrontation Magazine, Negative Capability, Vermont Literary Magazine, Slant Journal, Seattle Review, International Poetry Review, Montserrat Review, Connecticut Poetry Review, Icarus, Natural Bridge, Alligator Juniper, New Delta Review, and Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review.

Spouses collaborate against the world,
robbing anyone sleeping alone
and picking the pockets of less-skilled
teams when they can. The desperado duos

blow smoke and hold mirrors hostage
around wallets in each other's homes.
The bystander without a small band
for thuggery is left for dead, a teenager,

honest, after taxes and a holiday season.
Just try to keep the children out of this:
"Boppsy Twins Pin Pets in Their Pens."
When the city malls bless the lonely

or college colleagues into a couple
of crooks and their menace is proclaimed
in hall and haven, the highways are
diverted and sports stadiums catch fire.