Sorry for moving like a zombie
through my life:
red eyes
puffy face
Sorry, for a moment,
for forgetting the cake
for calling all week
to have an emotional chat
via speakerphone
BEST OF THE NET 2023; Essay in THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2018;
(cited in BAE 2015, 2016, 2020, 2022); PUSHCART poetry finalist
Issue: Summer 2012 » Poetry
Sorry for moving like a zombie
through my life:
red eyes
puffy face
Sorry, for a moment,
for forgetting the cake
for calling all week
to have an emotional chat
via speakerphone
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