POETRY - ISSUE FOUR
Magister of the Living Room
M.A. VIZSOLYI
Grief came over to watch cartoons once he
said that the coyote was representative of
our fate look at him he said he’s starving
& beaten up that the earth would fall out
under him before he could eat there’s music
in that though there’s music in everything
& then he turned off the tv he said look at
yourself Crispin lie down first then look
again which i did & saw myself as a white
ceiling am i a white ceiling i asked that’s
it he said though just right now but who
would want to be that forever whitewashed
& smoky now light a cigarette & see that
you are a parade of ghost ships & whatever
air there is moves through you until you
are three hills on fire in an unfortunate
wind there are a thousand mouths which
depend on those three hills can they
depend on you Crispin for what i asked
to feed them he said with what i asked never
mind can they depend on you he screamed
can they depend on you
said that the coyote was representative of
our fate look at him he said he’s starving
& beaten up that the earth would fall out
under him before he could eat there’s music
in that though there’s music in everything
& then he turned off the tv he said look at
yourself Crispin lie down first then look
again which i did & saw myself as a white
ceiling am i a white ceiling i asked that’s
it he said though just right now but who
would want to be that forever whitewashed
& smoky now light a cigarette & see that
you are a parade of ghost ships & whatever
air there is moves through you until you
are three hills on fire in an unfortunate
wind there are a thousand mouths which
depend on those three hills can they
depend on you Crispin for what i asked
to feed them he said with what i asked never
mind can they depend on you he screamed
can they depend on you
M.A. Vizsolyi is the author of The Lamp with Wings: love sonnets, a National Poetry Series winner. He is also the author of two chapbooks, Notes on Melancholia (Monk Books) and The Case of Jane: a verse play (500places Press). He lives in Brooklyn.
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