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Poems for a Diagnosis

By Alexander Perez From Issue No. 9

There has to be

A better way

Than morning

With its severe flicker

Of consciousness.

 

Do you know the last door

At the end of the hall

Of abandonment?

That’s my mother’s apartment.

Number 32B.

 

Some furry furry thing

Just rubbed itself

Against my bare ankle.

I hope it is not

My deformity.

 

Did you put out the fire James?

I do not want

To melt

Like a candle.

I left such a mess

The last time,

And I am running

Out of skins.

 

Is anyone here a surgeon?

I need my presence removed.

 

I was right.

You were mistaken.

Not I think therefore I am

But I was therefore, I thought

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