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
They are preparing to begin again:
Problems, new pennant up the flagpole
In a predicted romance.
they made a movie of it starring Boris Karloff
as Mord the executioner, who dabbled in torture.
The gray person disputes the other’s clotheshorse stature
just send us some water maybe
herding him onto the escalator for a last roll
This movie deals with the epidemic of the way we live now.
What an inane card player. And the age may support it.
Each time the rumble of the age
. . . or somebody’s going to get hurt.
For my sake, however, keep pealing to a minimum.
We’ll need the firewood you can pick up on the shore
His flesh is singular, like water,
His feeling anchored in a deep pool.
This is the platform of the famous sideshow,
all of us participating, glad to be arm and arm
as spring charges down the battlefield. Let’s see,
A hears by chance a familiar name, and the name solves a
riddle of the past.
B, in love with A, receives an unsigned letter in which the
Only the dead don’t know
what heaven’s like. For the rest
extrapolation is possible.
Destruction follows from the first premise.
In the sunsets you can see it happening.