12 Nov Tom Snarsky
Posted at 00:52h
in Poetry
UNTITLED
Authenticity is another word for acting
Like acting is somehow less than crucial
To the success of the enterprise of being
A good & bloody pulp of text messages
To you
yep nameless name yep hourglass
I said our vows in a quiet topography &
Market forces built us a bridge to youth
A LICENSE TO SELL HAIR TONIC TO BALD EAGLES IN OMAHA, NEBRASKA
It’s a chemical—that much you expected—
but the worried trees haven’t yet bought in-
to the weekday morning television stories
claiming it’s also a curse. What to do when
consensus is not forthcoming: dry the rain-
bow and haul its desiccated flesh to the
autopsy room. Kill the one (which is a man-
y) and save the many (who are hopelessly
one).
Tom Snarsky is a Noyce Teaching Fellow at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, USA. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in M58, aglimpseof, Third Point Press, Eunoia Review, theEEEL, and elsewhere. He tweets @TomSnarsky and posts work occasionally at quarrellary.wordpress.com. He lives in Braintree, Massachusetts.
