another myth from a different year
"I'm 35, married, a father, angry at a great many things, overeducated, underpaid, deeply in debt, one dead car in the driveway, just waiting for my neighbors to move. Recent work has appeared in DUFUS!, remark, Above Ground Testing and 63channels. Recent collections include
"Enemy," a chapbook from PinkAnarchkittyPress.com; "Silence in the House of Truths," an e-chapbook available at Tamafyhr Mountain Poetry; and "Human Cathedrals," a tasty little full-length collection of angst and bile available from Ravenna Press."
By John Sweet
burning
suddenly
the way your
life is lived even as
the clothing bursts into
flames
the way you catch yourself
thinking about what
you were doing at that
exact moment
sleeping?
fucking?
driving towards ithaca
maybe
and discussing the possibility
of rain with your wife
discussing your flaws
while the children slept
and it really doesn't matter
but it does
the unexpected brutality
of ordinary lives
the woman
falling to the floor
alive still
but far beyond the
imagined safety
of words
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