Poetry by Joseph Goosey

In Which Pleasure Elf Reads An Article Stating One Need Not Panic About Passing Mental Illness Onto Children 
 

then makes a cheese sandwich, 
chugs a road wine, 
and imagines some gods 
in order to pray. 
 
I stand at the intersection
during your favorite hurricane
waving a handmade sign saying I

Will Be Devout
In Exchange For Proper Blood Flow

as if to sell mattresses. 

Ever read, not see,
but ever read The Shining?

Things do have the potential 
to be okay.

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Joseph Goosey lives in North Carolina. His poems have appeared in The Fanzine, Wussy Mag, Cordite Poetry Review, 8 Poems, and elsewhere. Author of the chapbook STUPID ACHE (Greybook Press), his first full length collection is forthcoming from EMP Books.