I read a book
about Sylvia Plath
and despair. it seems
so much easier
to write poems that
scorch the earth
when you’re not planning
on being around when
those cruise missiles
touch down.
well, I do not plan
on dying, ever,
so where does that leave
my stabs at poetry?
blinded,
broken, Oedipus at Thebes
could relate.
maybe I’ll just wait
until everyone I know is dead
before I document
what I really think of them.
R. Brookes McKenzie 