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After work, O’Hara’s Bar on Broadway—I’m drinking
Poetry. After my third, I’m Gandalf conjuring the world.
Following my sixth, I’m Jesus: a seer, a saint, and a savior.
I scribble on my napkin—I am memory at a distance.
I must be Shakespeare but my girlfriend doesn’t join me.
Rejection letters fill my throat. A sip back to Sacred Heart
School, Tara Stewart said, “Your pants look like curtains.”
So now I’m home alone, watching Home Alone and all my
poems are my body’s lies. I can’t find the email that
I didn’t send. I am a toilet heaving. The movie ends. I might
blackout until death do us part and other things that I may never say
but I find a pen to write the words that join me anyway.
