1/3/2018 0 Comments Poetry by Mark YoungLost, & looking for his sidemen When all else fails, he comes back to the music of Miles. It is a point of familiarity, something that has served him well in the past. But, too many trips to the well & eventually it runs dry. Dare he say it, but even Miles is Muzak at certain times. But…besides… He caught the subway out of Tombstone. It was as she'd said, the past is another country. Fortunately he'd come prepared, crushed ice in his jacket pocket, a survival manual in 35 languages counter- balancing the imprint of his wallet against his ass. Gunshots still reverberated in his ears, but he'd stayed on top of it all until halfway across the Atlantic, when his smartphone gave out, & his heart went with it. Back to / back back to shorts & a T-shirt & 22 degrees in the middle of winter back to the noise of birds back to a landscape brown with the lack of water back to Lauren whom I missed terribly back to the cat who should have missed me but instead seems really shitty I went away back to a pc without pop-ups back to familiar territory & a space I like to think of as my own back to the lime tree we bought last year getting ready to flower back to the books I like to have around me back to add the books I was given & which I bought while I was away back to unpack & put things away so it seems I was never away back to read the mail piled up waiting for me to get back back to a city without japanese restaurants back to the house for sale across the street whose owners seem to have given up on the sole agent idea so that now the front fence is decorated with half a dozen real estate agent signs like demented flowers back to smoking outside back to groovy little green frogs in the garden back to a place without a harbor, therefore no ferries, therefore no feeling of swaying with the sea even though you're on the land back to recorded episodes of Shameless back to the Saturday Paper on Sunday back to the journal & Series Magritte back to writing poems instead of reading them Bio: Mark Young's most recent books are random salamanders, a Wanton Text Production, & Circus economies, from gradient books of Finland.
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