Poem of the Day
Study of Children
By Asha Futterman
did you know
that you all work for me?
I asked them as a joke
did you know
that you all work for me?
I asked them as a joke
For two months / I have not written / a word.
In the drawing room you sat shaven / among cleavages rank with sweat.
Lifting his head from the paper he noticed her orange hair.
I miss a social life. I know I made myself for that.
Dear fellow gull, a question or two for you to answer, if you care to.
once more I had entered the stream of things to become part of America
Somewhere on a manicured street / a poem is waiting
I have just read / a poem I wrote ten years ago. I like it.
Everyone is dead, has been dead / for a long time
A man is teaching his son to play the piano. He tells the boy, the piano loves to be touched.